What names are in the Pandora Papers?
TONY Blair, Elton John and Shakira are among some of the names that have been revealed from the Pandora Papers. The global investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) looks to expose the offshore financial dealings.
What do the Pandora Papers reveal?
The leaked files, known as the Pandora Papers, exposed a secretive financial system that enables the world's wealthy and powerful to hide their money and assets from creditors, taxing authorities and governments.
Who leaked the Pandora Papers to ICIJ?
The records were incorporated into the Offshore Leaks database and come from two offshore services providers: Panamanian law firm Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee (Alcogal) and Fidelity Corporate Services, headquartered in the British Virgin Islands.
What celebrities are in the Pandora Papers?
Elton John, Ringo Starr, and Shakira were named in a new leak of private financial documents, known as the Pandora Papers, that offer a glimpse at the tangled web of offshore accounting and alleged tax avoidance schemes used by some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people.
Where is Pandora Papers?
The Pandora Papers are the 11.9 million leaked documents from 14 companies in offshore tax havens having details of 29,000 offshore companies and trusts from Vietnam to Belize and Singapore.
Why is it called Pandora Papers?
We called the project Pandora Papers because the investigation builds upon previous ICIJ-led collaborations , the Panama and Paradise Papers; the ancient myth of Pandora's Box evokes an outpouring of trouble and woe.
Is Pandora Papers illegal?
Some of what's been uncovered in the Pandora Papers is illegal (“evasion”) but much might not be (“avoidance”, aided by anonimity). The effect is the same. Dollars that ought to have been paid in tax are withheld and used for the benefit of people who aren't keen to admit to owning them.