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Is Papers Panama? Guidelines for data leakage largest in history
PANAMA PAPERS THE LEAK IS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE 11.5M DATABASE FILES OF THE FIRM FOURTH LARGEST OFFSHORE LAW IN THE WORLD, MOSSACK FONSECA. THE RECORDS OBTAINED FROM ANONYMOUS SOURCE BY THE GERMAN PRESS SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG , WHICH TOGETHER WITH THEIR CONSORTIUM INTERNATIONAL REVIEW JOURNALIST (ICIJ).THE ICIJ THEN THEY TOGETHER WITH THE NETWORK OF INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS, INCLUDING THE GUARDIAN AND BBC.
WHAT THEY REVEAL?
The documents show the various ways in which the rich can exploit secretive offshore tax regime. Twelve leaders were among 143 politicians, their families and friends from around the world are known to have used offshore tax havens.
A $ 2bn trail leads all the way to Vladimir Putin. Friends of the best Russian president - cellist named Sergei Roldugin - is at the heart of a scheme where money from the banks of the Russian government's hidden offshore. Some of it ends up in the ski resort where in 2013 she married Katerina Putin.
Among the leaders of countries with offshore wealth is Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan; Ayad Allawi, the former interim prime minister and former vice president of Iraq; Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine; Alaa Mubarak, son of the former president of Egypt and Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson .
Offshore investment fund run by the father of British Prime Minister David Cameron avoided ever having to pay tax in Britain by hiring a small army of people of the Bahamas signed the paperwork. The Fund has been registered with HM Revenue and Customs since its inception and has filed a detailed tax returns each year.
An overview lengthier with verses that can be found here .
MOSSACK FONSECA WHAT?
It is a law firm based in Panama that include combining services companies in offshore jurisdictions such as the British Virgin Islands. It administers the offshore company for an annual fee. Other services include wealth management.
WHERE IS IT BASED?
The company is operating in Panama but throughout the world. Site that has a global network with 600 people working in 42 countries. It has franchises all over the world, in which allies of separate registering new subscribers and has the exclusive right to use the brand. Mossack Fonseca operate in the area of tax havens including Switzerland, Cyprus and the British Virgin Islands, and the British crown dependencies of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man.
HOW MUCH OF IT?
Mossack Fonseca is the world's fourth largest supplier of offshore services.He has acted for companies of more than 300,000. There is a strong relation UK. More than half of the companies registered in tax havens British-administered, and also in the UK alone.
HOW MUCH DATA WAS LEAKING?
Many. This leakage is one of the largest - bigger than the US diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks in 2010 , and the documents secret intelligence provided to reporters by Edward Snowden in 2013 . There are 11.5 million documents and 2.6 terabytes of information taken from an internal database Mossack Fonseca data.
EVERYONE IS USING THE OFFSHORE STRUCTURE OF CROOKS?
No. Using an offshore structure is completely legal. There are many valid reasons to do business demikian.Ahli in countries such as Russia and Ukraine are usually put their assets offshore to defend them from the "invasion" by criminals, and to get around strict currency restrictions.Others use offshore for reasons of inheritance and estate planning.
NUMBER OF PEOPLE USING THE OFFSHORE STRUCTURE OF CROOKS?
Yes. In his speech last year in Singapore, David Cameron said that "corruption, criminals and money launderers' taking advantage of the structure is anonymous. The government is trying to do something about this. It wants to set up a central register which will reveal the beneficial owner of the offshore company . From June, the companies have to disclose their UK owners of "important" for the first time.
MOSSACK FONSECA WHAT TO SAY ABOUT THIS LEAK?
The firm will not discuss specific cases of alleged misconduct, citing client confidentiality. But he strongly defended their actions . Mossack Fonseca said he was law-abiding anti-money laundering and carry out thorough due diligence on all clients. He said he regretted any misuse of its services and is actively trying to avoid it. The firm said it could not be blamed for the failure by the intermediaries, including banks, law firms and accountants.
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At home with Roma: Barefoot but still radiant, poor families who eke out an existence in remote villages in Romania
- Ponorata Roma community in northern Romania is home to about 500 people but did not show up on the map
- Some residents have access to electricity and more than 90 percent of them are unemployed and illiterate
- Romania is home to about two million Roma and until the end of the 19th century most were kept as slaves
It does not appear on any map, is hardly visited by the authorities and the people live in almost medieval conditions.
However Ponorata village in northern Romania is home to about 500 Roma, who eke out an existence in abject poverty and squalor that is almost unimaginable in Europe.
Some have access to electricity and over 90 percent of them are illiterate and unemployed.They survive by finding food in the region, government support and labor weekdays.
Poverty: Sorina Prodan holding the child in the settlement of abjectly poor Roma Ponorata.Sesetengah 400-500 Roma living in rural settlements, which do not appear on maps
Requirements Medieval: Roma stop for pictures while riding their horse drawn carriages, which for many locals is the main means of transportation in rural areas
Cold comfort: Maria Vican, 64, used mud mixed with straw to protect the cottage he shared with two other family members for the upcoming winter
Lost: Roma runs through the village, where more than 95 percent of the population is illiterate and unemployed
Playtime: A child skips along dirt tracks in Ponorata. An NGO has set up a school and a system of incentives to persuade parents to allow their children to attend
Denise Varga, left, seven, hugging her dog Anka while sitting at the door of the hut two biliknya.Betul, local youth Mando hold relatively young Alexandru Lingurar
Marinela Boldis holds up a photo showing her husband and two of their children: Marinela and her family spent eight months in France, begging and living with a child of the kingdom, until her husband became ill and died after they return to Romania, leaving to raise their children alone
traditional lifestyle: young mother holding her infant daughter Claudia Varga Raluca as a youth that led past a donkey in the background
Panorata people live in almost medieval conditions. They are dirt-floored, one-room log cabin, insulated with a mixture of mud and straw, home to 15 families.
Some have been to France, mostly to the city of Lille, where they make enough money through begging and collecting scrap metal to build small stone houses.
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Most people, however, live in one or two-room shack made of wood, mud and straw which sometimes collapse.
A single good works throughout the community, which is rarely visited by the administration luar.tanggungjawab located in the nearby city of Coroieni, but locals say it covers less than occasionaly tours guided by officials.
For Roma, the chariot is their primary means of transport if they wish to travel further than the boundaries of their own communities.
Remote: The village is located along the right path single, houses arrayed on either side. Some were built with modern building materials, wealth and status that indicates
horse standing in front of a relatively well-to-do: Those who have had stones in general returns to Ponorata with a modest sum of money made abroad
Enterprise: Local Roma men attend horse sales. Many Roma from Ponorata have spent time in France to earn money, mostly through begging and scrap metal collection
For sale: Horses owned by the founding family of the local Roma Varga chained to cart during horse sales
Pamela Prodan, left, who is a mother of two, and her sister-in-law Sorina Prodan pause while Pamela holding one of his sons and his nephew in the image of the left hand. Picture left, the local children Calin Istvan, right, and Rocsana Nicoleta Varga pose for photos
Rustic: Claudia Erdélyi, Damian Augustin and Eugen Erdélyi (pictured left to right) pose for a picture in the rolling meadows around Ponorata
Rose existence: Romeo Moldovan, Smocina Boldis wife and their baby daughter Daria stood outside the room wood, straw and mud huts they
Smocina Boldis breast feed her infant daughter Daria: Romania has the largest Roma population in Europe, with a budget of up to two million live there
Romeo and Smocina pose for another picture, left. Really, Ion Varga collect water from the village well as his relatives and Darius Gianina Claudia Varga look on
Discrimination: Roma regarded with suspicion by Romania and other tensions often flare into war with neighboring communities
Works: A young girl carrying a bucket of water from a single community also runs until only way Ponorata as other people take care of a young child nearby
But people Ponorata not just victims of indifference and isolation, but also the outright hostility that sometimes boils over into a battle with the authorities and the population living in nearby areas.
Several years ago, a murder that happened in a neighboring village and several Roma houses were burned in response. Romania living nearby also blame Roma for robbery targeting drivers who often travel through the region.
Romania has the largest Roma population in Europe, with a budget of up to two million live there.
They have a tragic history: until the mid 19th century the majority of Romanian Roma were kept as slaves. During the Second World War by 1.5 million Roma were exterminated by the Nazis and their allies.
narrow circumstances: Veronika Varga and his family members look out from the door of the room wooden shack they share with the members of other families
Hand to mouth: Contains Genoveva Lingurar feed her son Alexandru potatoes baked in the campfire as he approaches another child Andrei
Andrei Lingurar whittles with a knife: Population Ponorata survive by finding food in the region, government support and labor workdays
the difficult living conditions: Genoveva holding her son at home while Alexandru and while she shared with her husband and seven children
Gross: Maria Petrisur of breast-feeding one of her children in a one-room wood, mud and straw hut he shares with his family
But nicely decorated: Livia Lungarare pose for pictures with her husband in their two-bedroom home in the image on the left. True, locals ride on the horse drawn carriages
Babies born just lie strictly in a one-room house: Romanian, including members of the Roma minority in the country, will begin next year are free to move to UK
It's not all bleak: Senorita Molodvan, left, sister Petronela, and their relative Flutor Sedonia Boldis and daughter pose for photo in the relatively well-to-do two-bedroom house they share with the members of other families
Andrea-Maria, left, and Valeria sitting next to the only road through Ponorata: Local residents say their community is visited by local officials and get next to no help
Roma travel by young people in a chariot drawn by horses: Many Roma have been trying to escape from the cycle of poverty in Romania to travel to live abroad
Traffic jams: Ponorata population approaching one another in a horse-drawn carriage along a single road each year
With officials in their own country seemed content to leave them to their fate and their neighbors openly hostile to their presence, it is not surprising that hundreds of thousands of Roma have sought a better life abroad.
Already as many as half a million are estimated to have taken up residence in France, according to the European Roma Rights Center.
The racism they face in their homeland have followed mereka.Permusuhan against Roma are said to contribute to the most recent re-emergence of the National Front in France.
Romanian, including members of the Roma minority in the country, will begin next year are free to move to the UK as part of an EU policy of free movement for workers.
Family photo: Members of the family Varga, who spent a year in France before taking money from the government to leave France, gathered near their homes
This way! Sisters Maria-Gianina and Mihaela-Rocsana Erdélyi headed home after attending school classes
Tumbledown: Livia Moldovan, 60, a member doorestep he leaned home. The houses are built of population Ponorata bad fall down from time to time
Working animals: dogs greet Marina Boldis local Randafir Boldis Malin and her horse shoes outside their home
Pamela Prodan standing outside the family hut: Dirt-story, one-room log cabin, insulated with a mixture of mud and straw, family house up to 15
Help: Leslie Hawke, the mother of actor Ethan Hawke and Maria Gheorghiu (red hair), founder of the Romanian NGO OvidiuRo, bring the children home after school classes
Respite: This OvidiuRo Nadia Gavrila, left, supervises children playing with blocks in a preschool class that seeks to break the cycle of poverty and Ponorata against illiteracy
Ms Gheorghiu teach young children Rome: OvidiuRo apply to enroll their children in kindergarten through system Ponorata coupon incentive for parents
Cute: Young Roma children counting with their fingers during their preschool classroom
Head, shoulders, knees and toes: Ms Gheorghiu teach young Roma children body parts
Origins: Linguistic and genetic evidence indicates the Roma originated from the Indian subcontinent, emigrated from India to the north-west 1,500 years ago
But there is an effort to help them in their homeland. In order to break the generational cycle of illiteracy, chronic unemployment and humiliation, a Romanian NGO called OvidiuRo apply to enroll their children in kindergarten through Ponorata coupon incentive system for parents.
Leslie Hawke, the mother of American actor Ethan Hawke, who first came to Romania while serving in the Peace Corps in 2000, co-founded OvidiuRo together with Maria Gheorghiu, and the two of them visited recently Ponorata.
But Viorica Pert, a teacher at the school Ponorata, told the Gazeta de Maramures Romania paper that he and his colleagues struggle to get a positive result of young people in society are struggling to survive each day.
Although many of the students see teaching shows promise, 'many drop out of school after the fifth grade because they are married or have [other] activities, "he said.
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