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Russian bank. the americans think bank rossiya is a front for president putin's 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, moores rowland, monaco. we have discovered the firm had two other important russian clients. one...

Called the lady l. the documents show it was transferred to an employee of the president's law firm in 2011, but the evidence strongly suggests lady l still really belonged to lebedev. are are you here is his daughter's instagram. are are you there are many more examples in the files. another legal firm became suspicious. they concluded the president's employees were most likely acting as nominee beneficial owners on behalf of leonid lebedev. offshore firms are not supposed to conceal ownership in this way. transparency around who is really behind companies and the assets that they own is a va...

It strikes me as incredibly cavalier to engage in a multimillion pound transaction with the family of a foreign state, where... ..our own government's 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 island is one of world's biggest offshore centres.

It is useful to know where putin's 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 place, the glamorous tax haven of monaco, to hide some of his assets. the first clue is a swanky flat...