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He has three flats in there and then all of this. then if we go around here, there is more. if you look down here in this little private street, this mews, we cant go in there, we can have a peak. this first one and the second one, the files show that the king owns them as well. so that makes for an enormous block of property right bang in belg ravia. the king spends more than £70 million on his property empire. it is worth bearing in mind, that while the uk was sending millions in much—neede...

Investigation to come to the attention of governments all over the world. the consortium is leading a global investigation, involving more than 600 journalists around the world, including the guardian in the uk. with the king ofjordan, it wasntjust villas in malibu. documents dating from 2003 to 2017 show he also bought property in the us capital. this is said to be one of washingtons most glamorous areas and the files show the king has secretly been spending millions here. the files reveal the ...

I do feel sad and shocked. one of most significant revelations in the files is how easy it is to hide dirty money in the uk. it is childs play. what is a good present for an 11—year—old? a bike. a computer? what about this? a chunk of property in the heart of central london, worth £33 million? the lucky boy with his foot on the property ladder was the son of the president of azerbaijan. a country our own government once described as corrupt. it looks like the property deal was set up to hid...

Bought four apartments in this block for $16 million. these are properties that jordanians dont know about. it is very difficult for the averagejordanian to achieve just a basic level of home and family and a good job. and so to have it really thrown intojordanians faces that he has been just funnelling money abroad all this time that, would look really bad. and there is more. we found a total of 15 properties hidden behind offshore companies. six of them are in london. its a matter of public re...

But you also ensure your moral responsibility. for most people when they are buying or selling their house, it is a big chunk of change and it is cash you have to pay upfront. you know, as an ordinary person with an ordinary salary, i cant buy a house or a property or a business investment through an offshore company. the leak of offshore files has revealed the secret deals of world leaders, and a system that helps them play by different rules. tomorrow night, we use the documents to investigate...

Russian bank. the americans think bank rossiya is a front for president putins wealth. so they sanctioned the bank to stop it doing business in the west. we targeted it because it is known as kind of the putin cronies bank and we went after it very early. this was part of the theory of going after the putinesuq system and making it clear that we could expose it. what we are interested in is who looked after svetla na krivonogikh�*s money. the files reveal it was this financial services company...

Called the lady l. the documents show it was transferred to an employee of the presidents law firm in 2011, but the evidence strongly suggests lady l still really belonged to lebedev. are are you here is his daughters instagram. are are you there are many more examples in the files. another legal firm became suspicious. they concluded the presidents employees were most likely acting as nominee beneficial owners on behalf of leonid lebedev. offshore firms are not supposed to conceal ownership in ...

It strikes me as incredibly cavalier to engage in a multimillion pound transaction with the family of a foreign state, where... ..our own governments foreign office has previously described corruption as a part of every day life. some world leaders have been in the offshore business. here in cyprus, the files take us into the corridor of power. we have a revelation about the president of cyprus. not about his hiding his wealth offshore, but his law firm helped a client to hide theirs. this islan...

It is useful to know where putins circle is keeping its money. go get her. one world leader in our files is asking his nation to trust him with power for another four years. the czech prime minister is standing for re—election next week. looking forwardj to the election? of course. andrej babis is a populist billionaire. he campaigned on an anti—corruption message. one of our team caught up with him last week. what do you think about

I think what we are seeing for the first time ever is the size of the involvement of the political elite, the global political elite, in the offshore world, and the consequences of that involvement. the documents allow us to see how some world leaders go about hiding their fortunes. and how the offshore world help them do it. piece together the information in the files and you get a glimpse into how offshore companies can be used to hide wealth. the files suggest that president putin used this p...