Panama Papers

Could the Zetas say something about this latest leak? [and from another] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-03/unprecedented-leak-exposes-criminal-financial-dealings-some-worlds-wealthiest-people An unprecedented leak of more than 11 million documents, called the “Panama Papers”, has revealed the hidden financial dealings of some of the world’s wealthiest people, as well as 12 current and former world leaders and 128 more politicians and public officials around the world. More than 200,000 companies, foundations and trusts are contained in the leak of information which came from a little-known but powerful law firm based in Panama called Mossack Fonseca, whose files include the offshore holdings of drug dealers, Mafia members, corrupt politicians and tax evaders – and wrongdoing galore. The law firm is one of the world’s top creators of shell companies, which can be legally used to hide the ownership of assets.   The firm has serviced enough Middle East royalty to fill a palace. It’s helped two kings, Mohammed VI of Morocco and King Salman of Saudi Arabia, take to the sea on luxury yachts. In Iceland, the leaked files show how Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson and his wife secretly owned an offshore firm that held millions of dollars in Icelandic bank bonds during that country’s financial crisis. The ICIJ records show Sergey Roldugin, a long-time friend of Vladimir Putin, as a behind-the-scenes player in a clandestine network operated by Putin associates that has shuffled at least $2 billion through banks and offshore companies. [and from another] https://panamapapers.icij.org/about.html The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, together with the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other media partners, spent a year sifting through 11.5 million leaked files. ICIJ’s data and research unit indexed, organized and analyzed the 2.6 terabytes of data that make up the leak, using collaborative platforms to communicate and share documents with journalists working in 25 languages in nearly 80 countries. [and from another] http://www.infowars.com/largest-leak-ever-whistleblower-reveals-global-elite-crime-network/ Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) and submitted encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world. The data provides rare insights into a world that can only exist in the shadows. It proves how a global industry led by major banks, legal firms, and asset management companies secretly manages the estates of the world’s rich and famous: from politicians, Fifa officials, fraudsters and drug smugglers, to celebrities and professional athletes. In the past 12 months, around 400 journalists from more than 100 media organizations in over 80 countries have taken part in researching the documents. These have included teams from the Guardian and the BBC in England, Le Monde in France, and La Nación in Argentina. It covers a period spanning from the 1970s to the spring of 2016. [and from another]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3521830/Tax-havens-world-s-rich-famous-revealed-huge-data-leak.html Putin’s name is not included in the records but his friends and associates appear to have earned millions of pounds from deals that would have been difficult to secure without his patronage. Among the disclosures are that six members of the House of Lords and three former Conservative MPs had offshore accounts, although the only British politicians so far named are Lord Ashcroft, Tory peer Baroness Pamela Sharples and former Conservative MP Michael Mates. [and from another] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844 The documents show 12 current or former heads of state and 61 people linked to current or former world leaders in the data.

The Panama Papers have been in the hands of the media for over a year, so why the media focus now? Did 100 media partners, all with their hands in the pie, all agree towait? The break in the news came because someone in the media was going to jump, and this was in regard to UK revelations. This pushed papers linked to the UK to rush to print, featuring a reach to Putin as the headline. In fact, if one examines the perpetrators, it is not Putin nor Russia nor China with dirty hands, as both are a long reach. A childhood friend or a daughter of a former premiere are not the same as direct involvement of a sitting President or Prime Minister. 

Whatever else this trove of truth reveals, it shows the relationship of power to wealth. If not wealthy when they gain the reins of power, politicians often become wealthy due to these reins and their reach. One need look no further than the Clinton family history to see this. Those inclined to expose the dirty deals and arrangements look away, rather than challenge the powerful. What will result from the exposure will be prosecutions, in some cases, or loss of influence in others. Little will change in the way the world of the elite operates. This Panamanian law firm was not the only firm juggling the books.

Source: ZetaTalk Chat Q&A for April 9, 2016