Yes, it is bigger than the Panama Papers.
According to the media that have collaborated in this investigation, it is the largest leak of documents from tax havens in history and has a relevance "even more important than the Panama Papers", which were revealed in April 2016.
Queen Elizabeth II of England, the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and the singers Bono and Madonna are among the 127 international persons linked to companies in tax havens, according to a journalistic investigation released today in several media.
The research, developed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) and called "Papeles del Paraíso", has been carried out by 382 journalists from almost 100 media outlets that have analyzed more than 13 million documents from "opaque territories". "and cover a period of 70 years (1950-2016).
The documents come from a leak of documents from the law firm Appleby and Asiatici Trust, received by the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, from 19 jurisdictions listed on the list of OECD tax havens: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados , Bermuda, Cayman, Cook Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Labuan, Lebanon, Malta, Marshall Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago and Vanuatu.
Among the public figures related to tax havens, according to ICIJ information, would be Isabel II, Juan Manuel Santos, the Secretary of State for Trade of the United States, Wilbur Ross, the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder or Stephen Bronfman, fundraiser of the election campaign of the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, among others.
According to the data released by the ICIJ, the Queen of England has a "private income that comes mainly" from Lancaster, "Duchy who invested 7.5 million dollars in the company Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP in 2005."
The duchy of Lancaster received in 2008 around 360,000 dollars of this investment, a fund that went to a development company involved in the technology of fingerprints for mobile telephones, to pharmaceutical companies and high technology, according to the information disclosed today.
In the case of Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president appears as "director of two offshore (extraterritorial) companies based in Barbados, a tax shelter in the Caribbean."
The American singer Madonna, shareholder, according to the disclosed data, of a "medical supplies company in Bermuda" registered in 1997 and dissolved in 2013, and the leader of the Irish band U2, Bono, as shareholder, also appear in the list revealed today. of a company registered in Malta (2006-2014), owner of a shopping center in Lithuania.
Participating in this news event you will find, The Spanish, La Sexta and El Confidencial, and, internationally, The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, La Nación and Le Monde.
According to the media that have collaborated in this investigation, it is the largest leak of documents from tax havens in history and has a relevance "even more important than the Panama Papers", which were revealed in April 2016.
Queen Elizabeth II of England, the president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, and the singers Bono and Madonna are among the 127 international persons linked to companies in tax havens, according to a journalistic investigation released today in several media.
The research, developed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) and called "Papeles del Paraíso", has been carried out by 382 journalists from almost 100 media outlets that have analyzed more than 13 million documents from "opaque territories". "and cover a period of 70 years (1950-2016).
The documents come from a leak of documents from the law firm Appleby and Asiatici Trust, received by the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, from 19 jurisdictions listed on the list of OECD tax havens: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados , Bermuda, Cayman, Cook Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Labuan, Lebanon, Malta, Marshall Islands, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago and Vanuatu.
Among the public figures related to tax havens, according to ICIJ information, would be Isabel II, Juan Manuel Santos, the Secretary of State for Trade of the United States, Wilbur Ross, the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder or Stephen Bronfman, fundraiser of the election campaign of the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, among others.
According to the data released by the ICIJ, the Queen of England has a "private income that comes mainly" from Lancaster, "Duchy who invested 7.5 million dollars in the company Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP in 2005."
The duchy of Lancaster received in 2008 around 360,000 dollars of this investment, a fund that went to a development company involved in the technology of fingerprints for mobile telephones, to pharmaceutical companies and high technology, according to the information disclosed today.
In the case of Juan Manuel Santos, the Colombian president appears as "director of two offshore (extraterritorial) companies based in Barbados, a tax shelter in the Caribbean."
The American singer Madonna, shareholder, according to the disclosed data, of a "medical supplies company in Bermuda" registered in 1997 and dissolved in 2013, and the leader of the Irish band U2, Bono, as shareholder, also appear in the list revealed today. of a company registered in Malta (2006-2014), owner of a shopping center in Lithuania.
Participating in this news event you will find, The Spanish, La Sexta and El Confidencial, and, internationally, The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, La Nación and Le Monde.
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