Paradise Papers

The Paradise Papers are a set of 13.4 million documents relating to offshore investment. Among those whose financial affairs are mentioned are Queen Elizabeth II, and the last two US Secretaries of Commerce: Penny Pritzker and Wilbur Ross. The documents were made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in collaboration with Süddeutsche Zeitung.  These same two organizations had earlier published the  Panama Papers in 2016 from the 2.6 terabytes of data sent by John Doe.

The papers include records from an offshore law firm Appleby, although the company has released a statement stating there has been "no evidence of wrongdoing".

People mentioned in the list are: Queen Elizabeth II, Bono, former Prime Ministers of Canada: Jean Chrétien,
Paul Martin, and Brian Mulroney, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, economic advisor Gary Cohn, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, son-in-law of Vladimir Putin, Madonna, Paul Allen, President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Carlos Slim, Chancellor of Austria Alfred Gusenbauer, Prince Charles, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister of Japan Yukio Hatoyama, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Shakira, Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaukat Aziz, and sons of Prime Minister of Turkey Binali Yıldırım.

Companies also mentioned were Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, EBay, Glencore, Uber, Nike,  Walmart, Allianz, Siemens, McDonald's and Yahoo."'Paradise papers' expose tax evasion schemes of the global elite". Deutsche Welle. 5 November 2017."So lief die SZ-Recherche". Süddeutsche Zeitung. 5 November 2017.

Related pages
 Panama Papers
Pandora Papers

References

Other websites
 Paradise Papers Portal of BBC (United Kingdom)
 Paradise Papers Portal of The Guardian (United Kingdom)
 Paradise Papers Portal of Le Monde (France)
 Paradise Papers Portal  of El Confidencial (Spain)
 Paradise Papers Portal of Sveriges Television (Sweden)

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