Selling our enemies the rope to hang us
By Cicero From Cicero’s Songs Panama is not the world’s largest off shore financial centre. Mossack Fonseca is not the worlds largest offshore lawyer. The scale of the leak of confidential information is huge, but in fact it represents the…
Progress made to rein in shell corporations, but more action needed
By John Ydstie FromWBFO 88.7 Buffalo The revelations in the Panama Papers have generated anger and disgust. Politicians and leaders in countries from Russia to Iceland to the oil-rich Gulf States are implicated. The irony is that while the shady…
UK: Banks told to declare links to Panama Papers law firm by next week
By Jill Treanor, Rowena Mason and Juliette Garside Financial Conduct Authority sets financial firms deadline to check if they have links to Mossack Fonseca Banks and financial firms have been told to hand over any information about their dealings with the…
Mossack Fonseca & Ashcroft
From Amandala Newspaper BELIZE CITY–In what is being described as an almost certain fatal blow to offshore banking, international media broke the story on Sunday, April 3, of a colossal leak of confidential documents from a highly secretive and private…
Panama Papers: remarkable global media operation holds rich and powerful to account
Author Paul Lashmar Senior Lecturer in Journalism, University of Sussex From The Conversation Disclosure statement Paul Lashmar is part of a research group that is funded by ESRC and have been part of a research team that received a grant…
Brazil charges members of Panamanian corporate services firm with money laundering
By Kenneth Rijock From Curacao Chronicle MIAMI – Two senior members of a prominent Panamanian corporate services firm, Mossack Fonseca, have been charged with money laundering in Brazil, based upon allegations that they assisted in laundering the proceeds of bribes…
