[Parzival]

http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/artic...offen.html

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Hundreds politicians, sports stars and criminals are said to have hidden with the help of a law firm in Panama funds. In data, the journalists were leaked, there are also the names of presidents.

A law firm in Central America Panama should have helped President, drug smugglers and sports stars over the decades the process of forming anonymous shell companies and funds to hide. This is apparent from approximately 11.5 million files zuspielte an anonymous source of the newspaper, reported the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung".

The leaked documents should contain e-mails, documents, bank statements, passport copies and other documents about 214,000 companies were registered especially in Panama and the British Virgin Islands. They documented the offshore operations of a total of 140 politicians from around the world.

In the documents the names of billionaires, politicians, athletes, arms dealers, spies and fraudsters appear, reports the "SZ". Among other things, would confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko can set up shell companies.

Close contacts of Putin initiated reportedly in recent years under conspiratorial circumstances apparently more than two billion dollars through shell companies and managed this much money out of Russia.

Also, the Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson said to have had by the end of 2009, with its present wife a letterbox company in which, among other bonds important Icelandic banks were deposited.

In the "Panama Papers" themselves are also tracks for Fifa affair found. So should the Uruguayan lawyer Juan Pedro Damiani, a member of the adjudicatory chamber of Fifa Ethics Committee, three defendants have helped in Fifa scandal to offshore companies which possibly football administrators to have been bribed.

The ethics committee of Fifa already confirmed internal preliminary investigations against their own Member Damiani. "Yes, the report is correct. I can confirm that we have passed a so-called preliminary investigation into the way", said the spokesman of the investigating chamber of the Ethics Committee, Roman Geiser Deutsche Presse-Agentur.

"The biggest data breach in history"

The information about the offshore business were the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung" leaked by an anonymous source. The paper is 2.6 terabytes of data, which are 11.5 million documents to total 214,000 shell companies. At the evaluation of documents about 400 journalists from nearly 80 countries participating. In Germany, NDR and WDR were involved in the research. The revealer of the NSA scandal, Edward Snowden, said on Twitter the "biggest leak in the history of the data journalism".

The shell companies were set up by the law firm Mossack Fonseca from Panama. This explained upon request, the law firm working for 40 years without any complaint. "We never have been charged or indicted for a criminal offense."

Internationally sanctioned business as a cousin of Syrian President Bashar Assad or monarch as the King of Saudi Arabia, according to the documents used offshore companies. New allegations there by the data leak, according to "Süddeutsche Zeitung" also against the Argentine soccer star Lionel Messi.

Everything that is digital, can be hacked or someone just put a hint on the information. Maybe they spy on us, but its not that they are out of touch. At one point, the truth comes always into light.

[Parzival]

A few minutes too late, so I'm dupe:

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Guess this can be closed.