Now we can see them and their ill-gotten gains

An international network of journalists has obtained some 2.5 million records from tax havens detailing shell companies, offshore accounts and dubious financial deals. According to some sources the unprecedented leaks include the names of people who at one time or other moved their money offshore.

A massive leak of financial data to media outlets around the globe has spurred a series of investigations into offshore banking and tax havens.
Documents detailing secret accounts were leaked to the Washington, D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Washington based ICIJ Wednesday said it worked with 86 investigative journalists from 46 countries, including India, to produce Secrecy For Sale: Inside The Global Offshore Money Maze, the largest investigative reporting project in its 15-year history.  The good job.

The non-profit group granted 38 media organizations access to the database. Corporate moguls, property tycoons, lawyers and politicians are under scrutiny in the international investigation.

The virtual Everest of data exposes some 120,000 letterbox entities, offshore accounts and other dubious deals in more than 170 countries, in addition to the names of 140,000 individuals alleged to have placed their money in known tax havens.
The investigation lifts now the curtain on the offshore system and provides a transparent look into the secret world of tax havens and the individuals and companies that use and benefit from them.

Some of those:
Fokus reveals the untold offshore story of Sweden's most famous real state speculator, who fled the country in 1989, owing the government and creditors nearly $500 million.
For example oligarchs and dictators' daughters apparently have a penchant for bunkering their assets on the British Virgin Islands. Barons and composers, on the other hand, seem to prefer the Cook Islands. To cheat on taxes, they create bogus firms with imaginative names like Tantris, Moon Crystal or Sequoia.
Accoding to Economic Times many of the world's top's banks - including UBS, Clariden and Deutsche Bank - have aggressively worked to provide their customers with secrecy-cloaked companies in the British Virgin Islands and other offshore hideaways.

The deputy prime minister's wife, as well as top managers of major Russian military contractors and government-controlled companies, are among an array of Russian figures with secret offshore investments. The disclosure puts President Vladimir Putin's persistent call for curbing offshore investments in a new light.
The Guardian and the BBC find that a British property tycoon, currently serving a six-month jail sentence for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of about $600 million during divorce proceedings, has set up a network of Caribbean offshore companies.

NDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung explore how the playboy former husband of Brigitte Bardot built a network of trusts in tax-havens including Panama, Luxembourg, Jersey, the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands.

For Finland a similar situation is revealed 8 April.

We already knew how secret and inaccessible the offshore industry is, but we were surprised by how vast and far-reaching it is, said Gerard Ryle, director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , ICIJ, the organization that managed the global research.

ICIJ said it worked with 86 investigative journalists from 46 countries to produce the largest investigative project in its history.

ICIJ said the files illustrate how offshore financial secrecy has spread aggressively around the globe, allowing the wealthy to avoid taxes, fuelling corruption and economic woes in rich and poor nations.
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Där rapporteras att en internationell sammanslutning av undersökande journalister har gjort historiens kanske mest omfattande avslöjanden om de globala skatteparadisen. 140 000 personer från 170 länder uppges ha placerat sina pengar på Jungfruöarna.
Yles team har alltså deltagit i undersökningen och redogör för de finländska kopplingarna den 8 april och Spotlight gör en svensk version som sänds den 11 april i Yle Fem.
Bland dem finns miljardärer från Östeuropa, internationella vapenhandlare, storplacerare från Wall Street samt mänskor med koppling till politik från olika länder dom-som har placerat sina pengar på de brittisk-ägda Jungfruöarna.