being donated to the conservative party or how an oligarch rottenberg allegedly laundered millions of dollars through barclays now it's given the very fraught political climate at the moment it's probably on surprising that there is such a focus on these so-called russians but really it does such a huge disservice to the scope of this scandal i mean 3000 u.k. companies alone on named in those files now that's more than any other country on top of that any bank you can think of really has implicated you know bank of america 6 american express j.p. morgan deutsche of citibank barclays the list goes on and then clients and more than 170 countries and there are already 193 in the world were named you know and flagged so focusing on a couple of russians in the u.k. it seems a bit disproportionate and what's been the reaction in the financial world since this all broke while the german ministry of finance has said that all of these transactions occurred in the past they were all dated up until 2017 so they've been investigated the matter is closed but let's hear what some of the other big h