Apr 07, 2016
The Art of Secrecy
Locked in the files of a Panama law firm are the answers to mysteries involving Van Goghs, Picassos, Rembrandts and other masterworks.
Locked in the files of a Panama law firm are the answers to mysteries involving Van Goghs, Picassos, Rembrandts and other masterworks.
Global law firm’s customers include suspected financiers of terrorism, nuclear weapons proliferators and gunrunners.
Leaked records show that hundreds of banks and their subsidiaries and branches registered nearly 15,600 shell companies.
Complex offshore financial deals channel money and power towards a network of people and companies linked to President Vladimir Putin.
He came to power after the country’s financial collapse while hiding his offshore holdings of millions in bonds from Icelandic banks.
Firm that practices no matrimonial law nonetheless plays big role when the superrich around the globe decide to split.
Belgium, the center of the world's diamond trade, has charged HSBC’s Swiss Private Bank with fraud. And it's not just Belgium – many dealers are under investigation around the globe.
Bribes for Venezuelan officials were funneled through tax havens, court filings claim.
Arms deals between North Korea and Iran, money-laundering by Mexican drug lords, and Russia's largest tax fraud: the common element is a 68-year-old Queensland businessman, Geoffrey Taylor.
COLOMBIA: Putumayo, a vast, rainforest-carpeted province in southern Colombia, is the main military target of the $1.3 billion U.S. aid package known as Plan Colombia. Coca grown in the region provides 40 percent of the cocaine sold in the United States, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Pilots working for DynCorp, a major U.S. government military contractor, spray poison on the coca of Putumayo, while U.S.-trained assault troops secure the area for the fumigation raids. But there are other forces operating here, as well.