The Paradise Papers With Amount Of Money And List Of Peoples Involved In It 0 2353

The Paradise Papers is a set of 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investment, which in some cases might have been used to conceal income from taxation, was leaked to the public on 5 November 2017. The documents originate from the offshore law firm Appleby, the corporate services providers Estera and Asiaciti Trust, and business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions. They contain the names of more than 120,000 people and companies.Among those whose financial affairs are mentioned are Queen Elizabeth II,  the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos and theU.S. Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross. According to the Boston Consulting Group, the amount of money involved is around $10 trillion.
On October 20, 2017, an anonymous Reddit user hinted at the existence of the Paradise Papers.  Later that month, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists(ICIJ) approached the offshore law firm Appleby with allegations of wrongdoing. Appleby said that some of its data had been stolen in a cyberattack the previous year, and denied ICIJ’s allegations. After the documents were published, the company stated there was “no evidence of wrongdoing” and that they “…are a law firm which advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business”. “We do not tolerate illegal behaviour,” they stated.

The documents were acquired by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which also obtained the Panama Papers in 2016. The name “Paradise Papers” reflects the so-called tax havens, or “tax paradises” involved. The data comprises some 13.4 million documents—at about 1.4 terabytes in size—from two offshore service providers, Appleby and Asiaciti Trust, and from the company registers of 19 tax havens.  In contrast to the Panama Papers, which involved only a single country, many countries were involved in this data leak. Süddeutsche Zeitung journalists contacted the ICIJ, which has been investigating the documents with 100 media partners. The consortium made the data available to said partners on a platform created specifically for the project, allowing journalists across the globe to do collaborative investigative work. The documents were released by the consortium on 5 November 2017.

Government officials

Current or former heads of state or government of their country as defined by their political position at the time of announcement, not whether the documents in the Papers relating to them coincided with their period of office.

Heads of state

 Paradise Papers

Queen Elizabeth II

  • United Kingdom Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms
  • Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, President of Colombia
  • Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia
Former heads of state
  • Costa Rica José María Figueres, former President of Costa Rica

Heads of government

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder

Former heads of government
  • Pakistan Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Canada Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Austria Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor of Austria
  • Japan Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan
  • Canada Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Canada Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Germany Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany
  • Qatar Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, former Prime Minister of Qatar

Other government officials

Xavier Trias

Jon Huntsman Jr.

 El Salvador
  • Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt, former Vice President of El Salvador
 India
  • Ashok Gehlot, former Chief Minister of Rajasthan
 Indonesia
  • Prabowo Subianto, chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement Party
 Saudi Arabia
  • Khalid bin Sultan, former Deputy Minister of Defense
 Spain
  • Xavier Trias, former Mayor of Barcelona
 Ukraine
  • Valeriy Voshchevsky, former Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine
 United States
  • Wesley Clark, former presidential candidate and Supreme Allied Commander Europe
  • Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council
  • Jon Huntsman Jr., Ambassador to Russia
  • Randal Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve

Cabinet officials

Blairo Maggi

Wilbur Ross

 Argentina
  • Luis Caputo, Minister of Finance
 Brazil
  • Blairo Maggi, Minister of Agriculture
  • Henrique Meirelles, Minister of Finance
 Kazakhstan
  • Mukhtar Ablyazov, former Minister of Energy and Trade
  • Beibut Atamkulov, Minister of Defence
  • Sauat Mynbayev, Minister of Oil and Gas
 Kenya
  • Sally Kosgei, former Minister of Agriculture
 Mexico
  • Alejandro Gertz Manero, former Secretary of Public Security
 Uganda
  • Sam Kutesa, Minister of Foreign Affair
 United States
  • Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury
  • Penny Pritzker, former Secretary of Commerce
  • Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce
  • Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State

Members of legislatures

Antanas Guoga

Michael Ashcroft

 Canada
  • Leo Kolber, former member of the Senate
 European Union
  • Lithuania Antanas Guoga, Member of the European Parliament
 India
  • Sachin Pilot, former member of Lok Sabha and former Minister of Corporate Affairs
  • Jayant Sinha, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of State for Civil Aviation
  • Ravindra Kishore Sinha, member of the Rajya Sabha
 Iraq
  • Mudhar Shawkat, former member of the Council of Representatives
 Japan
  • Masamitsu Naito, member of the House of Councillors
  • Taro Yamada, former member of the House of Councillors
 Nigeria
  • Bukola Saraki, President of the Senate of Nigeria
 Ukraine
  • Anton Pryhodsky, former member of the Verkhovna Rada
 United Kingdom
  • Michael Ashcroft, former member of the House of Lords
  • James Sassoon, member of the House of Lords and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury

Relatives and associates of government officials

Ibrahim Mahama

Queen Noor of Jordan

 Canada
  • Stephen Bronfman, close friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
 Ghana
  • Ibrahim Mahama, brother of former President John Mahama
 Indonesia
  • Tommy and Mamiek Suharto, children of former President Suharto
 Jordan
  • Noor Al-Hussein, former Queen consort of Jordan
 Montenegro
  • Ana Kolarević, sister of former Prime Minister and President Milo Đukanović
 Turkey
  • Erkam and Bulent Yildirim, sons of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım

Non-government officials/organizations

Businesspeople

George Soros

Carlos Slim

Alisher Usmanov

  • Hungary United States George Soros, founder of Soros Fund Management and Open Society Foundations
 Australia
  • Richard Goyder, chairman of AFL Commission and former CEO of Wesfarmers
  • Nicholas Moore, CEO of Macquarie Group
 Croatia
  • Danko Končar, the majority shareholder of the Afarak Group.
 Germany
  • Curt Engelhorn, former owner of Roche Diagnostics and DePuy
  • Paul Gauselmann, founder and CEO of Gauselmann
 India
  • Vijay Mallya, chairman of United Breweries Group
  • Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy, founder of Hetero Drugs
  • Niira Radia, former corporate lobbyist
  • Ashok Seth, chairman of Fortis-Escort
 Israel
  • Dan Gertler, founder and president of Dan Gertler International Group
  • Idan Ofer, founder of Tanker Pacific and principal of Quantum Pacific Group
 Mexico
  • Alberto Baillères, chairman of Grupo BAL and ITAM
  • Carlos Slim, owner of Grupo Carso
 Pakistan
  • Alauddin Feerasta, chairman of Soneri Bank
  • Sadruddin Hashwani, founder and chairman of Hashoo Group
  • Mian Muhammad Mansha, chairman of Nishat Group
 Russia
  • Alisher Usmanov, oligarch
  • Yuri Milner, Silicon Valley investor
 Saudi Arabia
  • Bakr bin Laden, chairman of the Saudi Binladen Group
 Spain
  • Daniel Maté, co-owner of Glencore
 Sweden
  • Leif Östling, former CEO of Scania AB and chairman of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
 Syria
  • Rami Makhlouf, owner of Syriatel
 United States
  • Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft
  • Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay
 Zambia
  • Hakainde Hichilema, businessman and politician

Entertainment personalities

Nicole Kidman

Madonna

 Australia
  • Michael Hutchence, singer
  • Nicole Kidman, actress
  • Keith Urban, singer
 India
  • Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood actor
  • Manyata Dutt, actress
 Ireland
  • Bono, singer
 Spain
  • José María Cano, painter and former member of Mecano
 United Kingdom
  • Fiona Delany, actress in Mrs. Brown’s Boys
  • Martin Delany, actor in Mrs. Brown’s Boys
  • Patrick Houlihan, actor in Mrs. Brown’s Boys
 United States
  • Madonna, singer

Other

 Mexico
  • Marcial Maciel, Catholic priest and founder of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi

Companies

 Finland
  • Finnfund
 Germany
  • Allianz
  • Bayer
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Deutsche Post
  • Meininger
  • Siemens
  • Sixt
 India
  • Apollo Tyres
  • Emaar India
  • GMR Group
  • Havells
  • Hindujas
  • Hiranandani Group
  • Jindal Steel and Power
  • Sun Group
  • United Spirit
  • Videocon
 South Africa
  • Illovo Sugar
  • Shanduka Group
  • Standard Bank
  Switzerland
  • Glencore
 United Kingdom
  • Barclays
 United States
  • Amazon
  • Apple Inc.
  • Facebook
  • Goldman Sachs
  • McDonald’s
  • Nike, Inc.
  • Twitter
  • Uber
  • Walmart
  • Yahoo!
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