one of the first he got was on how the "pandora papers" came about.video clip] >> it came through an organization of investigative journalists, which is a group of journalists that has gathered material like this before. they are best known for "the panama papers," which won a polluter prize of five or six years ago. they work with partners around the world, because the information they get is so expensive, it is too much for any single media organization to go through. so "the washington post" was part of a team that worked on this project for most of the past year. host: what did the information you got from the icij focus on? what were you looking for? guest: this is all offshore financial data, so that is referring to files, secret records, private business, shell company and other registrations in a number of jurisdictions around the world. basically what we are looking at is kind of this parallel economy, this secret economy, in which wealthy individuals use jurisdictions, like the virgin islands, singapore and other places, to set up shell comp

and then the pandora papers is 14 different - offshore law firms.worked on it - together with an organisation in washington called the icij, l who received the data and then shared it out to hundreds of journalists all around i the world and we all published together. | and margot gibbs is an investigative reporter for the aptly named international consortium of investigativejournalists. she is one of the 600 journalists around the world who've been working on those pandora papers. let's kick off with you, margot. what happens first? because you had over 11 million financial records to choose from. so, how did you set about this? so, i think it starts with a massive data crunch from icij's data team. so, we have all of the files stored on some server somewhere, don't know where, or many servers presumably. and i think there's kind of a months—long process of machine reading those files so that we, as journalists, can then go and quiz the files, essentially, and give them our hypotheses. and say, ok, is there dirty money coming into the uk, is there

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i well, whistle—blowing is massive parts of the pandora papers story.t's obviously worth reporting this story, but it's not given that people will read it. how do you keep the public hooked is a crucial point, and how do you keep the story alive from one day to the next? well, yeah, iagree. tax, offshore structures, it's not easily digestible over your cornflakes. but we're lucky because we're talking about the 1% or the 0.1% here and some pretty crooked people, quite often. and we're talking about celebrities, and you've got the private jet—flying, you know, yacht with helipad—chartering oligarchs, so you get a wonderful window into how this global elite live and how they cheat the system. and you get... our readers love it. they love it, they lap it up, they donate when we run these stories because they see why we write them. they see the unfairness. you know, in the uk, the debate about tax was really dominated for years by tabloid stories about people cheating on their benefits, poor people, a cleaner who was claiming benefits and working cash in ha

it's being dubbed the pandora papers. the leaked files no jordan's king abdullah has amassed a luxury property portfolio worth a $100000000.00. he's reportedly done by disguising purchases through a series of offshore companies, incorporated in the british virgin islands. the papers also reveal members of pakistani prime minister man cons in a circle, including his cabinet ministers, secretly own companies and trusts, holding millions of dollars. and former british prime minister tony blair, is shown to have saved hundreds of thousands of pounds and property tax through a stamp duty loophole will get reaction out of europe with rory challenge in a moment at 1st that speak to mike hayes live for us in washington. d c. and so mike, that start with those revelations concerning the monarch of jordan. how embarrassing is that likely to prove? o king abdullah is one of some $35.00 heads of state around the world that are mentioned in the pandora papers. the papers alleged that he established a number of shell companies register

and i suppose today with the pandora papers were doing just that . other notable leaders with lucrative holdings. the former british prime minister, tony blair, who the consortium says avoided paying hundreds of thousands and property tax on a townhouse by buying the company, which owned it. the check prime minister entre bobbitt up for reelection. the investigation found some of pakistani prime minister im wrong cons. inner circle also benefit from offshore trusts. he has vowed to punish lawbreakers. quote, my government will investigate all our citizens mentioned in the pandora papers. and if any wrong doing is established, we will take appropriate action. some will question whether countries such as the u . s. and the u. k. are doing enough to regulate the use of shell companies and tax avoidance measures. analysts say this latest report makes it hard for citizens to trust their leaders, including in the middle east, inadequate, exposes, much more and, and just asked and he exposes this explicit me, actually he, and, and my me that is that it is,

pandora pays. no, it's not. but i, i believe that whenever funders i was in the panama paper, suddenly revealed what does he think about you? he is in your offshore leaks database. what does he, what does he think about it? i mean, obviously he's associated very closely with powerful nato agencies. i don't know. i'm not kidding you. i do not show our funders. i've never met her from years. we are from there's have no involvement in the newsroom. i. c j. this is a tiny organization that needs funding. so if anyone like to donate to us, please do ad. there's only about 40 of us out. we work across the world and we never ever hear from our foreigners not ones that have never met them. don't know them, don't even know that age. so we just do our big, i don't think you'll be able to open a little of sure to exit kind of a focus. she'll thank you. well, ah, well in one of the pandora papers revelations had spain talking about the alleged corruption involving former spanish king one call us the 1st madrid is not ceased

they have been dubbed pandora papers.iles include revelations about the financial dealings of the king ofjordan, the former british prime minister tony blair, the russian president vladimir putin and the czech prime minister. the examination of the files has been organised by the international consortium investigative journalists. in the uk, the investigation has been led by bbc tamarama and the guardian. richard bilton reports. it is one of the world's most glamorous addresses. this is david beckham's place on the right. home to the stars. that is simon cowell�*s place right there. but even the guides don't know who owns one imposing villa on malibu's cliffs. who lives here on this house on the left, just here now? who lives here? i have no idea. extremely impressive. the secret owner has bought the properties on either side too. we know his identity because of a huge leak of offhsore documents. they were obtained by the international consortium of investigativejournalists and shared with more than 600 reporters, includi

quote, my government will investigate all our citizens mentioned in the pandora papers. and if any wrong doing is established, we will take appropriate action. some will question whether countries such as the u . s. and the u. k. are doing enough to regulate the use of shell companies and tax avoidance measures. analysts say this latest report makes it hard for citizens to trust their leaders, including in the middle east, inadequate, exposes montoya, and just asked that he exposes this explicit may actually he and, and money. that is it not a disaster from this when an intersection between business and ernestine makes use of the, ah, the allegations in the pandora papers are just that allegations. there is no proof that leaders mentioned in the stories broke any laws, whether those laws should be changed is a matter for public debate. rosalyn jordan al jazeera washington just to feel the headlines at least 13 people killed in an explosion in afghanistan. capital the bombing target at the entrance of the 2nd largest mosque in cobble. our group has claimed responsibility.

world leaders has been exposed in one of the biggest ever leaks of financial documents, dubbed the pandora papers. the files link russia's president to secret assets on monaco. russia's president to secret assets on menace-— on monaco. when a political elite and itself in _ on monaco. when a political elite and itself in power, _ on monaco. when a political elite and itself in power, it's— on monaco. when a political elite and itself in power, it's the - and itself in power, it's the ordinary man who are suffering. bb“: ordinary man who are suffering. bbc panorama involving more than 650 journalists had access to 12 million documents parking allegations of corruption and global tax avoidance. also on our programme, the us says it's very concerned about the rising tensions between china and taiwan with chinese militaryjet flying into taiwanese air space over the past three days. and these are live pictures from the palme, on spain's canary islands. — la palma. live from our studio in singapore... this is bbc news. it's newsday. it's six in the morning in singapore and 11pm in london. the se

what is your reaction to the pandora papers? this is not the first leak, still shocked to see politicians, bankers, celebrities rub shoulders or shoulder with criminals and frauds. so the underworld seems to serve the upper world and i find it shocking. reporter: what measures does the eu have at its disposal to sort this out? >> many actions can be taken, it requires political will. it starts with transparency. we need to know who owns what. that is under the heading of beneficial owner. the second thing is shell companies, why do we allow this? and the third thing is put stricter demands on offshore tax havens. there is a blacklist of tax havens which is a shambles but could potentially be an effective instrument. the british virgin islands, bermuda or any other place, we can do it if we want to, but we need the political will. reporter: there is also -- we've had a string of leaks like this. do you think citizens are frustrated? do you think they feel politicians are doing enough to prevent it? >> yes, i am impatient too and

the so called pandora papers accused jordan's king the presidents of russia. and as a by jan and a former british prime minister as well as many others of amassing secret wealth and avoiding taxes, sol says north korea and south korea have restored a stalled communication channel. chung and cut the hot line in august and protest against military drills as sole conducted with united states. but since then, pyongyang said it may consider a summit with its southern neighbour from a bride is more from hong kong.

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i now it appears according to the reporting and the pandora papers, pandora pandora papers, excuse me, that the state of south dakota, which has long, had a reputation for being the processing plant for a credit card companies. a notably, apparently is also getting him the business of being a place where leaders and very wealthy people can set up trusts to basically conceal the extent of their financial holdings from the general public. now, while there is generally expected a right to privacy in the united states, there is also this expectation that people who are in the public sphere who are working for government, whether at the local or federal level, do have to make their financial holdings known. so that people know where there are not, they have conflicts of interest. and certainly, if state governments are making this possible for people to conceal the extent of their financial dealings, it does create a question mark about whether or not these officials are being as honest as they say they are. so you might see more of a push for more what we call sunshine in law's here the u

they have been dubbed the �*pandora papers'. include revelations about the financial dealings of the king ofjordan, the former british prime minister tony blair, the russian president vladimir putin and the czech prime minister andrej babis. the examination of the files has been organised by the international consortium of investigative journalists. in the uk, the investigation has been led by bbc panorama and the guardian. bbc panorama's richard bilton reports. it is one of the world's most glamorous addresses. so this is david beckham's place coming up on our right. this is david beckham's place? uh-huh. home to the stars. that is simon cowell�*s place right there. just there? but even the guides don't know who owns one imposing villa on malibu's cliffs. who lives here, on this house on the left, just here now? who lives here? i have no idea. extremely impressive. the secret owner has bought the properties on either side, too. we know his identity because of a huge leak of offshore documents. they were obtained by the internat

that is what the pandora papers revealed. yeah, it's extraordinary. given all of that is likely to be any follow what can be done about hey, it's very little, can be done about this, at least on the domestic level, because the judiciary is accused of being politicized. a lot of the judges are appointed by the politicians, even the bankers they are in alliance with some of the politicians. some of the politicians actually own on the banks and it's the people who have been paying the price because their deposits their savings for they have no access to their savings to their dollar accounts. if you go to the bank today and ask for your dollars, well, they'll say no, we'll only give you in the local currency which has devalued by by 90 percent in the past 2 years. so people really paying the price of this economic crisis based on the international level. many lebanese will say the international community can do something, can help lebanon return those billions of dollars instead of working and engaging with the same political class. the international com

in fact, more than 300 current and former politicians appear in the pandora papers. those journalists say, among them 14 sitting heads of state, including the dominican republic, president kenya's, president, the check republics prime minister and ukraine's president. former heads of state are also named including former u. k prime minister, tony blair and his wife, who saved around $422000.00 by using an offshore company to purchase an almost $9000000.00 office in london's marrow bone area. according to the guardian newspaper, there was nothing illegal about the deal, but a quote highlights a loophole that is enabled, wealthy property owners not to pay a tax that is commonplace for ordinary britons. one of the most troubling revelations for the u. s. is the role of south dakota, nevada, and other states that have adopted financial secrecy laws that rival those of offshore jurisdictions. a former vice president of dominican republic, finalized several trusts in south dakota to store his personal wealth. and shares of one of the country's largest sugar producers, acco

the pandora papers have shaken global leadership circles. as investigated reports, i've uncovered how many heads of state hide their funds offshore. straight ahead, we dive into the bombshell revelations and how those implicated how they're responding. plus winter is approaching for the northern hemisphere as energy prices heat up. with some expert forecasting oil hitting $100.00 per barrel. we'll discuss ended up rec that fall continues to unfold as the northern ireland border issue persist later on. we go over the ongoing tension. we have a lot to get to once go and we lead the program with what could be the biggest story of the year. so far, a massive trove of documents known as the pandora papers are giving insight into the way some of the wealthiest people in the world. busy off share shore their money. the pandora papers are a follow up to documents released a few years ago, known as the panama papers. so what exactly do these new documents show? boom bus coast and investigative journalist, ben swan, looking into the story for us. we'l

world's most powerful and richest people are revealed in the biggest epa leak of such data called the pandora papers. while it confirms the u. s. us of top level tax haven. no, well known american people firm dimension despite president biden's pledge to plant down on tax evasion. also this weekend, at least 12 people are reportedly killed and more than 30 wounded in a blast to cobbles. the 2nd biggest, most the taliban says it's detained. 3 people allegedly responsible plus in our review of the week of extraordinary disaster. but we didn't have a president. it was so ad old, you all would be fired. i don't think anyone control anything. this person actually is brought up amsterdam, us law makers, lambaste president biden. and his top brass over walked some in congress called washington's humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we are so whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the policy itself. kind of bombshell report the ledges the cia plan to abduct or assassinate with he makes founder julian songs with former agency chief might compare with the center of th

over the coming days, we will bring you more revelations from the pandora papers, including the pandorae party. meanwhile, the united states says it's very concerned about what it called provocative military activity by china near taiwan. it follows flights by chinese militaryjets into taiwanese airspace over the past three days, raising tensions between the island and beijing. peter bowes has mourned. — — more. beijing. peter bowes has mourned. - - more. this is related _ mourned. - - more. this is related to _ mourned. - - more. this is related to the _ mourned. - - more. this is related to the military - related to the military activity off taiwan. with almost 100 flights now entering what's known as the defence identification zone, which is airspace of taiwan. it's outside of the national airspace, but it's an area that can be monitored and has been monitored by the taiwanese defense department, counting these flights which are not just over the last few days, this has been going on for many months. the taiwanese people have been complaining about this for some time. the united stat

the check prime minister has responded to the pandora paper allegations on social media. 0n the pandoraions on social media. on twitter he said that he never did anything illegal or wrong, calling the claim is an effort to try and denigrate him and influenced the republic parliamentary elections. for more on the pandora papers league i am now joined from washington by fergus from the icj. —— icij. firstly, what is the background from this leak and what sort of practices does it expose? it was obtained by the international conservator —— consortium of investigating journalist about two years ago. it has been an expensive look at the offshore economy and for the past two years 600 journalists have been working to try and make sense. what it shows is that the offshore world continues to propel inequality, continues to shield the powerful and the criminal and it shows that despite government efforts to rein it in it grows and it grows. fergus, who else is in the files and what reaction has there been?— files and what reaction has there been? ., ., ., there been? there are more than 300 poli

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the pandora papers also single out the u. s. as a leading tax haven. i spoke to donald courter who went over the 1st releases for us, so whether there is sensationalist expected people definitely were anticipating something as big as what happened in 2016 when the pat, when the panama papers were released. but actually, this one hasn't made as much noise. the guardian sure had a click beatty picture of vladimir putin's face right at the front of its article, even though in the pandora papers vladimir putin was not even named. so that's a bit a bit interesting. but the investigation primarily deals with more or less obscure people. i mean, we have some examples being the king of jordan. so offshore properties, personal properties, the purchase of several theatres, by the general director of russia's channel one he was said to have been a silent partner in this operation. but he's already commented publicly that he hasn't concealed anything about his business dealings in connection to this. one higher profile mentioned though, the ukranian president vlad

even though in the pandora papers vladimir putin was not even named. so that's a bit a bit interesting. but the investigation primarily deals with more or less obscure people. i mean, we have some examples being the king of jordan. so offshore properties, personal properties. the purchase of several theatres by the general director of russia's channel one he was said to have been a silent partner in this operation. but he's already commented publicly that he hasn't concealed anything about his business dealings in connection to this. one higher profile mentioned out the ukrainian president vladimir zalinski in 2019. he was elected and most in large part on his platform of promising to rid the country of corruption. and ukraine is notoriously, hasn't a problem with corruption. and according to this investigation, he actually transferred 25 percent of his stake in a foreign at an offshore company to his personal friend who is now the top presidential advisor. so, so far he hasn't commented on that seems a little bit shady, but no confirmations. usually w

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but the pandora papers actually paint a very different picture. they're showing that they, they actually revealed that south dakota has become the new hot spot for tens of millions of dollars that used to be in offshore accounts in the caribbean and europe. and this is despite of jo biden's promise to no combat corruption earlier this year. to day, i'm issued a national security study memorandum of the fight against corruption to establish come and corruption as a core us national security interest. the united states will lead by example and in partnership with allies, civil society and in the private sector. to far this courage of corruption and in fact, delaware, were mister biden, hales from i've got some pretty good tax breaks for companies, them they. so if his big platform is to deal with tax evasion, as many leaders do, where are the americans on this list? well, it's a good question, they're basically not there. i mean, we hear report after report, obviously about like a lot of american businessman and big corporate corporate owners evade

world's most powerful and richest people, are revealed in the biggest ever leap of such data called the pandora papers. and while it confirms us as a top local tax haven, no well known american people or firms are mentioned despite president by this pledge clamped down on tax evasion with also at least 12 people are reportedly killed. anything more than 30 voted in a blast that cobbles and the 2nd biggest mosque. and calvin says that it has detained 3 people, allegedly responsible plus in our review of the week of extraordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president that was so adult, you all would be fired. i don't think anyone can trust anything. this prisoner says about afghanistan. well, us lawmakers lambaste president biden, and his top ras, over one, some in congress called washington humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we asked though whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the block itself. and a bomb shell report alleges the cia planned to a duck or assassinate, weekly founder join font, former agency chief mike pompei at the center of the plot. ah,

most powerful of the richest people, revealed in the biggest ever league of such data called the pandora papers, from what it confirms the u. s. as a top global tax haven, no well known american people or firms have mentioned this by president biden's pledge to clamp down on tax evasion. and also this sunday, at least 12 people are reportedly killed and more than 30 wounded and a blast of cobbles. second biggest, most the taliban says it's detained, free people allegedly responsive bluffs. in our review of the week it was an extraordinary disaster. we didn't have a president, it was so adult, you all would be fired. i don't think anyone controls anything. this prisoner says about against us. law makers lambaste president biden, and his top brass over bought some in congress called washington's humiliating withdrawal. from afghanistan, we asked though whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just to pull out itself. and a bombshell reporter ledges the cia plan to abduct or assassinate wiki leagues found a julian assange with former agency chief mike pompei o at the

you could go and see all the documents, but you can search to pandora papers at all. instead, they just tell us, trust, trust, the corporate media. clowns is going to be find it, feel coincidence this investigation is just looking for someone who can be tied to potent or other evil actors. a few sacrificial lambs are thrown in to make it look credible and rigorous, like the legendary buffoon who is the king of jordan. so it's that, that the revelations aren't real. it seems they are. but we're left to wonder what's been covered up. furthermore, there's a focus on individual rich bags stealing money from the public wealth by not paying taxes rather than the reality the situation which is that capitalism as jo. oh, is a system meant to allow rich mags to steal money from the public wealth? yes. close the tax havens. yes. have the rich pay of ton more in taxes, but those are just the ban days on our system that's destroying the planet, destroying the future, destroying community theatre. why? i haven't seen a solid production a little abner, a well over a decade and with

world's most powerful and richest people are revealed in the biggest ever leak of such data called the pandora papers. and while it confirms us as a top global tax haven, no well known american people or firms are mentioned despite president by these pledge to climb down on tax evasion. also, at least 12 people are reportedly pilled and more than 30 wounded and blasted cobble. the 2nd biggest mosque telephone says it has detained 3 people, allegedly responsible party in our review of the week. it was just ordinary disaster. if we didn't have a president, there was so adult. you all would be fired. i don't think anyone can trust anything . this prison says, but it, us lawmakers lambaste president biden, and his top brass over what some in congress called washington's humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan. we asked though, whether the whole afghan campaign might be a bigger failure than just the pull out itself. and the bombshell report alleges the cia planned to conduct or assassinate wiki leaks at founder julian assange with former agency chief. my mom, pale at the center of the plot ah, bro

this is just the beginning of these sir reports and these leaks about these pandora papers. more of them are promised for the coming weeks. so we're gonna have to keep an eye out for them. for the investigation also named somebody the ledges to be a former clean and lover of vladimir posted and the mother of one of his children spent lana kreger naga. his alleged to be the owner of a monaco apartment bought via an offshore company. although the relationship with the russian president never been confirmed. meantime, a friend of the president also appears to be in the papers, but not mister potent himself as we are herds are the papers also revealed to you. a state of south dakota has emerged as a major destination of wealthy people to avoid tax. although experts we spoke to said they're not surprised. the very thing that the united states criticized switzerland in the past for it is now doing the famous numbered accounts. look, the real lesson here is, if you will allow the distribution of wealth and income to be as only equal as it now is in the world to day. you create the