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The wealthy rob governments of at least $200 billion a year in lost tax revenues. It's time to force them to pay up.

World leaders scramble to limit Pandora Papers damage

NEW YORK: World leaders were on the defensive Monday after the release of millions of documents detailing how heads of state use offshore tax havens...

The editor of the Global Times has suggested that Western intelligence agencies have been involved in the dissemination of the so-called Pandora papers, claiming it may help their governments intervene in developing nations.

Governments scrambled on Monday to limit the fallout from a release of millions of documents detailing how world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires and others have used offshore tax havens t…

Some 35 current and former leaders are featured in roughly 11.9m documents leaked from financial services companies across the world

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ali Bongo of Gabon are among the African leaders named in the Pandora Papers investigation as hiding assets in offshore tax havens.

Holding assets offshore is not illegal in most countries but revelations embarrass leaders who have pushed austerity measures

Allegations range from corruption to money laundering and tax evasion.

NEW YORK: Governments moved Monday to limit the fallout from a release of millions of documents detailing how leaders have used offshore tax havens to stash assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.