The ICIJ investigation says about offshore transactions and 12 current and former world leaders – Rosbalt.RU

 The investigation of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) of offshore associated with Panamanian registrar Mossack Fonseca, said transactions and offshore 12 current and former world leaders, 128 politicians and officials, and 29 billionaires from the list of the richest Forbes people.

 In particular, it referred to the transaction, which involved the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, the King of Saudi Arabia Salman, Iceland Prime Ministers and Pakistan, relatives President Xi Jinping and President Ilham Aliyev.

The Russian partner ICIJ «New gazeta “published an investigation into the offshore friend of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation Sergey Roldugina.

 Unlike other friends of Vladimir Putin, included in the Forbes list, during his reign, the richness of Sergei Roldugina until now nothing was known, say investigators. His only known asset – 3.2% of bank “Russia”, which make up the company he Yury Kovalchuk, Gennady Timchenko, Nikolai Shamalov, Alexei Mordashov and others. The bank came under US sanctions in 2014, the Obama administration called his “personal bank for a narrow circle of” close to Putin’s people. RBC previously estimated Roldugina share in the bank 550 million rubles.

 A company Roldugina took hundreds of millions of dollars, it is argued in the investigation: “Offshore companies related to Sergey Roldugin, controlled stake in the largest enterprises of the country in various sectors of the economy – from production to sale of trucks TV advertising»

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 Among others mentioned in the investigation – the footballer Lionel Messi, the late father of British Prime Minister David Cameron Ian Cameron, a member of the FIFA Committee for Ethics Juan Pedro Damiani and actor Jackie Chan. The ICIJ note that evidence of the involvement of Jackie Chan, as well as many other clients Mossack Foncesa, no illegal transactions, writes meduza.io.

 As a result of leakage of information from the database law firm Mossack Fonseca data from the media reported about the involvement of a number of world leaders and their entourage to the schemes of money laundering and tax evasion. 11 million documents were made available to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, after which they began to work c The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Total documents contain references to 72 current or former heads of state, including dictators accused of robbing their country.

 One of the founders of Mossack Fonseca Ramon Fonseca declared illegal disclosure of materials.