{"id":15163,"date":"2016-04-04T07:21:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T07:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2016-04-04T07:21:28","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T07:21:28","slug":"panama-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/panama-papers","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Data Leak In History Just Exposed\u00a018 African Politicians And Their Relatives\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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The investigation, called Panama Papers, mentions 12 current politicians, business people and celebrities such as Lionel Messi, 29 of the 500 richest people in the world, as well as criminals. They are all accused of\u00a0hiding their business dealings using\u00a0offshore tax havens and shell companies in order to minimize their tax liability. The information was leaked by Mossack Fonseca, a\u00a0Panama-based law firm with offices around the world<\/p>\n<h2>11,5 million confidential files<\/h2>\n<p>German newspaper S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung was the first outlet to receive the leaked files. 11.5 million files pertaining to Mossack Fonseca, a powerful law firm based in Panama, were analyzed by 370 reporters from all over the world. Mossack Fonseca supposedly created more than 214 000 offshore companies and helped their owners hide their assets in\u00a0tax havens. In total, 140 politicians, among which relatives of Vladimir Putin\u00a0secretly shuffled $2 billion through banks and shell companies. Famous sports stars such as Lionel Messi and UEFA&#8217;s \u00a0Michel Platini, figure on the list.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"intro1\">&#8220;Hidden in 11.5 million secret files:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"intro2\">140 politicians from more than 50 countries;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"intro3\">connected to offshore companies in 21 tax havens; h<\/span><span class=\"intro4\">eads of state, their associates, ministers, elected officials.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Here is a map showing where the victims\u00a0come from<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_26213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26213\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26213 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/media-2016-04-04-at-2-29-02-am.jpg\" alt=\"Carte de la Panama Papers\" width=\"676\" height=\"437\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/Consortium international des journalistes d\u2019investigation\" target=\"_blank\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>The Africans:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahmad (Ahmed) Ali al-Mirghani,\u00a0former\u00a0President of Sudan<\/li>\n<li>Alaa Mubarak, son of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak<\/li>\n<li>Mounir Majidi, personal secretary to the King Mohammed VI of Morocco<\/li>\n<li>John Agyekum Kufuor, son of Ghana\u2019s former president, John Agyekum Kufuor<\/li>\n<li>Jean-Claude N\u2019Da Ametchi, banking executive from the Ivory Coast<\/li>\n<li>Clive Khulubuse Zuma, nephew of South Africa\u2019s president Jacob Zuma<\/li>\n<li>Mamadie Tour\u00e9, widow of Lansana Cont\u00e9, the former dictator and president of Guinea<\/li>\n<li>Jaynet D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Kabila Kyungu, the twin sister of Joseph Kabila, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo<\/li>\n<li>Abdeslam Bouchouareb, member of Parliament and current minister of industry and mines in Algeria<\/li>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Angola\u2019s Minister of Petroleum since 2008<\/li>\n<li>Kalpana Rawal, Kenya&#8217;s Deputy Chief Justice<\/li>\n<li>Ian Stuart Kirby, president of the Court of Appeal in Botswana<\/li>\n<li>Bruno Jean-Richard Itoua, Congo&#8217;s Minister of Scientific Research and Technical Innovation<\/li>\n<li>James Ibori,\u00a0former governor of Nigeria\u2019s oil-rich Delta State<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Emmanuel Ndahiro, Rwanda&#8217;s former president\u2019s physician, security adviser and spokesman<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Attan Shansonga,\u00a0former ambassador of Zambia to the United States<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Kojo Annan, son of former United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Mamadou Pouye, childhood friend of Karim Wade, the son of Senegal&#8217;s former President Abdoulaye Wade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are legitimate uses for offshore companies, foundations and trusts. 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