The phrase “Panama Papers” or “papers Panama” is in the mouth of all Panamanians, but really know what it is, which means this scandal that has exposed Panama’s eyes everyone?
“papers Panama” is the filtration of 11.5 million documents the office of Panamanian lawyers Mossack Fonseca, specialists in creating commercial companies “offshore”.
this financial scandal involving heads and former heads of state, millionaires, athletes and artists, who used companies “offshore” to evade taxes
Vladimir Putin, president of Russia.; President of Argentina, Mauricio Macri, and footballer Lionel Messi, FC Barcelona, are some of the figures in the “Papers of Panama”.
It is also mentioned Michael Platini, president of the Uefa, and the Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar, among other celebrities.
This research originated in the German newspaper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”, which received the documents from an anonymous source.
the German newspaper shared it with the International Consortium of Investigative journalists (ICIJ, for its acronym in English), which gathered 376 journalists from 76 countries.
“Panama Papers” operations were described as the transfer of millions of dollars, concealment of commercial companies and suspicious transactions of money laundering.
This research has shaken the country so much that even the Panamanian Association of Business Executives (APEDA) ruled, after hearing the Attorney General’s Office admitted that initiated a thorough investigation of the “Panama Papers”.
According to the Apede, this complaint ICIJ affects Panama, which was recently removed from the gray list Group Financial action Task Force (FATF).
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also spoke and hung on its website the speech of President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela, which reaffirmed that in 21 months of government demonstrated a commitment to transparency in the legal and financial services.
“the Government of Panama leads a policy of zero tolerance for any aspect of your financial legal system or not handled with high levels of transparency” It expresses the statement of President Juan Carlos Varela. Pica ball and runs with this research is making shake more than one.
The lawyer Ramon Fonseca defended before the investigation “Panama Papers” by stating that no final contact . According to the lawyer, “it is as if we were a car factory, have no control over the car,” he said about the scandal of shell companies involving heads and former heads of state, athletes, artists, among others.
11.5
Millions of documents were leaked.
140
Politicians around the world in the scandal.
376
Journalists 78 countries investigated.
25
languages worldwide covered by the report.
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