巴拿馬檔案曝中俄等12國政要隱秘財富  

【公孫明按：此新聞一出，各國關係人物莫不竟相否認，有如此地無銀。

公孫明則認為: 此為數十年來幕後操控集團之常用戲碼，先以金錢腐敗使入囊中，然後適時引爆，從中收割取利，百試不爽。

俄國之普廷，英國之卡梅倫，中國之習近平，台灣之蔡英文等社會主義叛徒及右派頭子盡入其殼中，絕不出人意料！

如何運作？有興趣的朋友可參考John Perkins寫的“ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”，http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081】

來源：CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published April 4, 2016:5:38 AM ET

毫無疑問，這又是一個揭露某些掌握權力和某些逃避稅收的人如何隱匿財富的爆炸性新聞。名為“巴拿馬檔案”的國際記者團（ICIJ）的調查報告披露，全世界140多位政治人物在逃稅天堂的秘密存款曝光。已知他們中有與中共高層有關係的公司，有冰島總理夫婦，有沙特國王，以及歐洲足聯主席普拉蒂尼等。

在ICIJ協調下，包括德國《南德意志報》、法國《世界報》在內的全球76個國家的106家媒體獲得了上述秘密材料，由此，經過一年對涉及1,150萬份材料的分析和調查，他們掌握了1,150萬份涉及多國領袖人物、犯罪網絡、體育明星以及億萬富翁在逃稅天堂秘密存款或者洗錢的材料。上述媒體4月3日晚在網站披露，“巴拿馬檔案”涉及的超過21.4萬個離岸公司，這些離岸公司同全球200多個國家和領地有聯繫.

文件也披露了疑似洗錢金額達10億美元、由一家俄國銀行經手並且涉及俄總統普京心腹的團伙。Mossack Fonseca 的資料同時也顯示，冰島總理西格蒙杜爾·貢勞格松在該國政府救援銀行行動中有未申報的利益。除政治人物外，著名球星梅西以及歐洲足聯主席普拉蒂尼等人也在內。

“巴拿馬檔案”調查的核心，是一個名叫Mossack Fonseca的機構，這是一個專門辦離岸手續的律師事務所。這一律師事務所主要就是幫助開辦用以掩藏老闆真實身份的離岸公司，並封鎖公司內部消息不致流向外界。該公司總部在巴拿馬，是全球最不透明的金融中心之一，被視為是洗黑錢的跳板，許多黑錢以及犯罪組織的贓款、賄款都通過這裡找到了掩藏之所。

根據ICIJ將近一年調查，現已查清有12個國家元首和政府總理——其中6人仍在崗位，與離岸公司秘密存款有涉；還有128名政治人物與全球最高級別的公務員；以及29名列入富士比全球500大排行榜的富豪。

根據調查，其中最“敏感”的人物，其款項分存在三到四個設在全球各地的離岸公司，對於一個國家的稅務檢查機關而言，要想調查清楚幾乎不太可能。

《世界報》及其他媒體核實了數萬份Mossack Fonseca律師事務所與他們的雇員之間的內部信件，證實製造離岸公司的人往往比企圖整頓和監督金融管理的國際組織走前了一步。

上述媒體將在接下來的幾天，陸續披露涉及在海外秘密存款的政治人物和社會名流。

Mossack Fonseca方面回應說，該公司向來遵守國際規定，確保合作成立的企業不會被用來作為逃稅天堂、用來洗錢、資助恐怖組織或者其他不法的用途。已經展開適當的調查，並且對任何誤用該公司所提供的服務感到遺憾。並說“要是察覺可疑或者失當的行為，我們將迅速提報相關當局，同樣地，當有關當局持可能失當行為的證據與我們聯繫時，公司一直都是完全與他們合作”。Mossack Fonseca表示，世界各地都有岸外公司制度，而且是用於很多種不同的合法用途。

巴拿馬文件，一份一千一百萬文件的維基解密檔案揭露富人藏富秘密

CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published April 4, 2016:5:38 AM ET

Elected leaders and top officials from around the world are responding with denials and outrage to allegations that they used secret offshore companies and accounts to hide billions of dollars.

The media reports, based on a massive leak of documents, allege the existence of a clandestine network involving associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and business ties between a member of FIFA's ethics committee and men indicted for corruption。

The Kremlin has dismissed the allegations as "a series of fibs" aimed at discrediting Putin ahead of elections, while the FIFA official has described them as "ridiculous" and "outrageous." But some governments are acting on the information -- the U.K., France, Australia and Mexico have pledged to investigate for possible cases of tax evasion。

Several news organizations published reports Sunday drawing on more than 11 million documents leaked from a law firm in Panama that allegedly helped set up secret shell companies and offshore accounts。

The documents go back decades and reference 12 current or former world leaders, as well as 128 other politicians and public officials, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which carried out the yearlong investigation in cooperation with more than 100 different news organizations。

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CNN hasn't been able to independently verify the reports and is seeking comment from the most prominent figures mentioned in the reports. Those people are spread across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas。

The documents do not necessarily indicate illegal activity. But shell companies and offshore accounts can be used to mask the origin of financial transactions and ownership. The files include people and companies blacklisted by the U.S. government because of links to drug trafficking and terrorism, according to the ICIJ。

They also suggest that the law firm in Panama, Mossack Fonseca, did not have adequate controls in place. According to the ICIJ, a 2015 internal audit found that the firm knew the identities of the real owners of just 204 of 14,086 companies it had incorporated in Seychelles, an Indian Ocean archipelago often described as a tax haven。

Ramon Fonseca Mora, a co-founder of Mossack Fonseca, told CNN late Sunday that the information published about the firm was false and full of inaccuracies.

In longer statements provided to the ICIJ, the firm said that the parties "in many of the circumstances" cited by the ICIJ "are not and have never been clients of Mossack Fonseca."

It said its role was to incorporate companies and that in 40 years, it had "never been accused or charged in connection with criminal wrongdoing."

A German newspaper, Suddeutsche Zeitung, obtained the files from an anonymous source and shared them with the ICIJ. Eventually, more than 100 other media organizations became involved, including the BBC, The Guardian, Univision and McClatchy。

Here are some of the most high-profile allegations from the reports:

RUSSIA

The reports say the leaked documents show the existence of "a clandestine network operated by Putin associates that has shuffled at least $2 billion through banks and offshore companies."

The files describe about 100 complex deals involving a network of Putin allies, including one where the rights to a $200 million loan were sold for just $1, according to the ICIJ. Putin isn't mentioned by name in any of the documents, the ICIJ notes。

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov anticipated the reports last week at a news conference, saying a media "attack" was expected in the coming days. He called the accusations "another series of fibs."

Speaking to state media on Monday, Peskov said the reports were the latest example of "Putinphobia."

"It's obvious that there are many journalists there whose main job isn't journalism," he was quoted as saying.

FIFA

Still reeling from an ethics crisis last year, FIFA is once again in the spotlight. The reports allege business ties between Juan Pedro Damiani, a member of its Independent Ethics Committee, and three men indicted on corruption charges by U.S. authorities.

The three men caught up in the FIFA corruption scandal are Eugenio Figueredo, a former FIFA vice president, and Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, a father and son who ran a sports marketing business in Argentina。

The leaked files show Damiani and his law firm did work for companies linked to Figueredo, the ICIJ reported. His law firm also served as an intermediary for a company linked to the Jinkis family, it said。

The report doesn't allege illegal behavior by Damiani, but it raises difficult questions for the embattled world soccer body that's trying to clean up its image.

Damiani, who is also the president of the Uruguayan soccer club Penarol, told a local TV station that the reports about him were "ridiculous" and "outrageous."

FIFA said it has begun a preliminary investigation to review the allegations.

ICELAND

The reports accuse the prime minister of Iceland, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, of having ties, through his wife, to an offshore company that were not properly disclosed.

When asked about the company during an interview with a Swedish TV channel, Gunnlaugsson ended the conversation and said the journalists had asked an inappropriate question.

Among the firm's more significant holdings were bonds of three major Icelandic banks that collapsed in 2008, according to ICIJ. It said it was unclear how Gunnlaugsson's political activities might have affected the bonds' value。

In a statement later provided to ICIJ, the prime minister's office said the firm in question was merely a holding company for his wife's assets, enjoyed no tax advantages and had been created to avoid conflicts of interest in Iceland。

ARGENTINA

Argentinian President Mauricio Macri is alleged in the reports to have been a director of a company in the Bahamas that was incorporated in 1998 and dissolved in 2009. His father and brother were also reported to have been directors。

The ICIJ reports that he didn't disclose his link to the company in asset declarations in 2007 and 2008, a time when he was mayor of Buenos Aires.

A spokesman for the president, Ivan Pavlosky, said in a statement that Macri never had a stake in the company.

"President Macri didn't list that asset on his affidavit because he had no capital participation in the company and never had shares in it and therefore he didn't need to include it," he said.

Macri was "appointed occasionally as a director" of the company because it was "linked to the family business group," the spokesman said.

-- Charles Riley, Laura Perez Maestro, Euan McKirdy, Elizabeth Gonzalez and Alla Eshchenko contributed to this report.