cherie blair told the bbc they did not request _ have.request to structure - have. cherie blair told the bbc they did not request to structure the i did not request to structure the transaction display and the after purchase they had brought the property under uk tax and regulatory rules, a spokesman added the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. and the programme's reporter, richard bilton, joins us now. richard, what's the background to this leak? well, the pandora papers represent a glimpse into the way the wealthy use offshore secrecy, to hide deals, and to hide their wealth. as you heard, it's being coordinated by the icij. a secret source handed over these 12 million files — and it's a vast leak of financial data and emails. journalists around the world have been investigating the files for months. here in the uk it's panorama and also the guardian. who else is in the files? well, there are some 35 current and former world leaders and more than 300 public officials. for example, we found the family of the president

tony and cherie blair wanted to buy this townhouse in central london in 2017. firm. the price was £6.45 million. the blairs did not buy the property itself, they bought the offshore company that owned it. they did bring the property back onshore and under uk tax rules, but because they had not bought the property directly, they didn't have to pay stamp duty, the tax on buying a house. the stamp duty on a property like this would be more than £300,000. that is what you or i would pay if we bought this property direct from somebody else. but the blairs did not pay it. that does not look great and it partly does not look great because most people can't do the same thing. even if what the blairs did was perfectly legal and legitimate in the business world, it feels instinctively really unfair, because they got access to an advantage, a potential advantage, that the rest of us don't have. cherie blair told us the sellers had insisted they buy the house through the offshore company. her spokesman added that they were not liable for stamp duty but will of course be lia

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cherie blair told the bbc they didn't structure the purchase this way.nd its business in central asia. but an internal telia report describes the activities of a consultant referred to as mr xy, who was paid more than $65 million. the payments included expenses for lavish corporate entertainment, usually between $100,000 and $200,000 a month, that were not evidenced by receipts. it recommended that telia's relationship with mr xy be terminated. former telia executive michaela ahlberg, who was brought in to clean up the company, told panorama that mr amersi was the consultant referred to in the report. it is important that people around him that trust him, that listen to him, understand the whole context of his career and wealth. he has been involved closely in one of the biggest corruption scandals that we have seen in sweden in modern times. mr amersi's lawyer said it's entirely false to suggest his contract was terminated, and that his fees and expenses were entirely in keeping with industry practice. andy verity, bbc news. the prime minister says the

years later, in 2017, tony and cherie blair bought this townhouse in central london for £6.45 millionffshore company that owned it, saving more than £300,000 in stamp duty. that doesn't look great, and it partly doesn't look great because most people cannot do the same thing, and so even if what the blairs did was perfectly legal, perfectly legitimate in the business world, it feels instinctively really unfair because they got access to an advantage — a potential advantage — that the rest of us don't have. cherie blair told the bbc they didn't request to structure the transaction this way, and that after purchase they had brought the property under uk tax and regulatory rules. a spokesman added the couple will be liable for tax on capital gains on resale. the files also reveal how a prominent tory donor who supported borisjohnson's leadership campaign was involved in one of europe's biggest corruption scandals. the campaign is over and the work begins. thank you all very much. applause. a well—connected corporate lawyer, mohamed amersi has given £525,000 to the conservative party sinc

cherie blair told the bbc they did not request to structure the transaction this way and that after purchaseuk tax and regulatory rules. a spokesman added the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. here are some of the other revelations in the pandora papers. the investigation found azerbaijan's president and his associates are secretly involved in 17 property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the files also found the president of cyprus�* own legal firm appeared to have provided fake owners for a rich russian client, though this is strongly disputed. documents also show the czech prime minister, who is facing an election next week, failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrej babis has responded to the pandora papers allegations on social media. he said on twitter he had never done anything illegal or wrong, calling the claims an effort to try to denigrate him and influence the czech parliamentary elections. duncan hames is the director of policy at transparen

cherie blair told the bbc they did not request to structure the transaction this way and that after purchaseder uk tax and regulatory rules. a spokesman added the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. here are some of the other revelations in the pandora papers. the investigation found azerbaijan's president and his associates are secretly involved in 17 property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the files also found the president of cyprus' own legal firm appeared to have provided fake owners for a rich russian client, though this is strongly disputed. documents also show the czech prime minister, who is facing an election next week, failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrej babis has responded to the pandora papers' allegations on social media. he said on twitter he had never done anything illegal or wrong, calling the claims an effort to try to denigrate him and influence the czech parliamentary elections. and you can read more about today's expose on th

. - cherie blair told the bbc they didn't request to structure the transaction this way and that, afterbrought the property under uk tax and regulatory rules. a spokesman added, the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. here are some of the other revelations in the pandora papers. the investigation found it la palma. the investigation found it la palma. the files also found the president of — documents show the czech prime minister who is facing an election next week failed to declare an investment company used to purchase two village for $16 million. earlier, my colleague spoke to richard bilton for more background. is a glimpse into this offshore world where the wealthy can hide their wealth or deals. in this particular leak, i've been involved in a few, but this one has a lot of important people. there are 35 current world leaders and 300 state officials, so there's a lot of people in there. as we said in that report, it came from the international consortium of investigative journalist. it's emails, its data and allows us to see into this w

she'll, cherie, blair. why for over alleged all criminal tony blair has been on this show. in fact, we went to the offices that i think are ownership of which is involved in the band or a papers. tell me what you found about the bless. so they bought a property in london, true an offshore company, and true purchasing true the offshore a company and they were able to reduce the tax they had to pay on the property. so the question there is for when tongue, you know, tony blair is an advocate for at global equality. and the question is, why did tony blair and his wife do this? why did they do it when they knew that it was going to reduce their tax? but they argue that they did so because they wanted to bring the property back into the u. k. tax sphere. but, you know, once again, it's 8 the issue in secrecy or it happens to be secret, as you know, have the bless spokesman said we were aware the land tax is not able to respect to the purchase of shares. and that the seller requested to structure the transaction . at this way, i think to re blair's people said they didn't want ow

cherie blair told the bbc they didn't request to structure the transaction this way and that, after purchaseder uk tax and regulatory rules. a spokesman added the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. here are some of the other revelations in the pandora papers. the files also found... though this is strongly disputed. documents also show... well, the czech prime minister has responded to the pandora papers allegation on social media. he said he had never done anything illegal or wrong, calling the claims an effort to try to denigrate him and influence the czech parliamentary elections. earlier, my colleague spoke to richard built—in for more background — — richard bilton. it's a secret world where their rich can hive their wealth. this one has a lot of important people in it. there are 35 world leaders and 300 public state officials, so there's a lot of people in there. as we said in that report, it came from the international consortium of investigative journalists. it allows us to see into this world. 600 journalists all around the world are invo

cherie blair told the bbc they did not request to structure the transaction this way and that after purchase under uk tax and regulatory rules, a spokesman added the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. the investigation found that the president of azerbaijan and his associates were involved in property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the president of cyprus's legal firm million. the president of cyprus's legalfirm had appeared million. the president of cyprus's legal firm had appeared to have provided they can aspire rich russian client but this is strongly disputed. documents show that the czech prime minister, facing an election next week, failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrew verityjoins us now. what is the background to this leak? this is a glimpse into the way that wealthy people use offshore secrecy to hide their deals and their wealth. as you know it has been coordinated by the international consortium of investigative journalist, secret sour

cherie blair told the bbc they did not request to structure the transaction this way and that after purchasepokesman added the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. i asked richard about the background to this leak. well, the pandora papers represent a glimpse into the way the wealthy use offshore secrecy, to hide deals, and to hide their wealth. as you heard, it's being coordinated by the icij. a secret source handed over these 12 million files. i have been involved in four orfive of these leaks but this is the first one so many big names, 35 current or past world leaders, three current high—ranking state officials, important people and this is what they did with their money. riser important people and this is what they did with their money. river is in this file. — they did with their money. river is in this file. it _ they did with their money. river is in this file, it is _ they did with their money. river is in this file, it is that _ in this file, it is that significant. give us a better indication. significant. give us a better indication-— s

cherie blair told the bbc they didn't request to structure the transaction this way and that, after purchaseunder uk tax and regulatory rules. a spokesman added, the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. you can watch the first part of that investigation in full on the bbc iplayer now and the second part is on bbc one tomorrow night at 7:30. the prime minister has acknowledged there are problems in how the criminaljustice system handles victims of rape and sexual violence. speaking to the bbc he promised to "stop at nothing" to "get more rapists behind bars" and said victims needed a better service from the police. however he stopped short of backing an independent inquiry into sarah everard's murder by a serving officer saying he wanted to hear first from the police watchdog's review. graham satchell reports. sarah everard was just walking home when she was falsely arrested and then murdered by a serving met police officer. it has led to serious questions about trust in the police and the behaviour of men and the whole criminal justice system. the

cherie blair told the bbc they did not request to structure the transaction this way and that after purchase leak? well, the pandora papers represent a glimpse into the way the wealthy use offshore secrecy, to hide deals, and to hide their wealth. as you heard, it's being coordinated by the icij. a secret source handed over these 12 million files and it's a vast leak of financial data and emails. this is the first one that has got a lot of big names on it. there are some 35 current and former world leaders and more than 300 public officials. for example, we found the family of the president of azerbaijan were involved in 17 secret property deals in the uk totalling more than £400 million. one of the deals involved the president's11—year—old son getting ownership of a £33 million office block. one of the other properties is a bit awkward for the uk crown estate, the public body that looks after the queen's properties. they bought a building secretly owned by the aliyevs for £66 million, giving the notorious family a profit of £33 million. it looks like the crown estate has helped one of the w

years later, in 2017, tony and cherie blair bought this townhouse in central london for £6.45 millionn this way, and that after purchase they had brought the property under uk tax and regulatory rules. a spokesman added the couple will be liable for tax on capital gains on resale. the files also reveal how a prominent tory donor who supported borisjohnson's leadership campaign was involved in one of europe's biggest corruption scandals. the campaign is over and the work begins. thank you all very much. applause. a well—connected corporate lawyer, mohamed amersi has given £525,000 to the conservative party since 2018. here he is talking about corruption. corruption is a very, very heinous crime. every stolen dollar robs the poor of an equal opportunity in life. but leaked documents show mr amersi was at the centre of a corruption scandal. he worked as a consultant to a swedish telecoms company, telia, helping it to expand its business in central asia. but an internal telia report describes the activities of a consultant referred to as mr xy, who was paid more than $65 million. the paym

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