Hours before his resignation, mobs swarmed onto the streets in Reykjavik demanding Iceland Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson resign after his name appeared in a giant finance law firm leak known as the Panama Papers.
Dogged by allegations he concealed multi-million dollar investments in an offshore company, the prime minister of Iceland has resigned after his request for the president to dissolve parliament was refused. Local media reports the Prime Minister’s move must be approved
The Russian government has issued a number of aggressive statements defending President Vladimir Putin and accusing those releasing the “Panama papers,” a series of detailed banking documents exposing the wealth of many world leaders, of attempting to smear Russia directly.
The Times of Israel reports: Israel has launched a probe into companies and individuals exposed by the “Panama Papers” data leak to have holdings in offshore accounts. The Israel Tax Authority announced Monday that it had opened an investigation after
The Jerusalem Post reports: Hundreds of Israeli companies and some 850 Israeli shareholders are listed as having offshore accounts in a dump of leaked documents known as the “Panama Papers.” The 11.5 million documents was published on Sunday, following a
(AFP) – Thousands of Icelanders took to the streets late Monday calling for their prime minister’s resignation after leaked tax documents dubbed the “Panama Papers” prompted allegations that he and his wife used an offshore firm to hide million-dollar investments.
The UK Guardian describes the trove of confidential data stolen from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm that specializes in administering offshore accounts, as “the biggest data leak in history.”
Despite the high profile figures directly implicated in the Panama Papers leak – the largest financial leak in history – the mainstream media has been leading on the tenuous links to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Indeed the International Consortium of
A Panamanian shell company may have helped hide millions of dollars from the Brink’s-Mat heist, a British gold bullion robbery that is etched in criminal folklore, leaked tax documents allege. Dubbed the “crime of the century” by British media, the
