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Published April 8, 2021 at 10:46 PM PDT
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we are marking the 5th anniversary of the Panama Papers. In 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 media partners around the globe began publishing an investigation exposing the secrets of the offshore finance industry and how it enabled corrupt politicians and the rich to hide their money and evade paying taxes. Half a decade later, what has changed as the result of the Panama Papers’ revelations?
Guests:
Kevin Hall, chief economics correspondent and a senior investigator at McClatchy Newspapers
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UK tops the list with biggest sum recouped of more than $250m
Governments around the globe have managed to retrieve over $1.36bn (£986m, €1.14bn) in taxes and penalties as a result of the Panama Papers scandal.
The investigation not only sparked an avalanche of penalties and tax retrieval missions, but also allowed authorities around the world to pursue both criminal and civil cases for alleged money laundering and fraud against individuals and companies.
In Argentina, the brothers of former president Mauricio Macri are on trial for money laundering after failing to declare $4m in a Swiss bank account held in the name of an offshore company featuring in the Panama Papers.
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