Pandora Papers: An offshore data tsunami
The Pandora Papers’s 11.9 million records arrived from 14 different offshore services firms in a jumble of files and formats – even ink-on-paper – presenting a massive data-management challenge
Billions Hidden Beyond Reach - Trove of secret files details opaque financial universe where global elite shield riches from taxes, probes and accountability via @washingtonpost
The #PandoraPapers provide new evidence South Dakota rivals notoriously opaque jurisdictions in Europe & the Caribbean, tens of millions of dollars from outside US some tied to people/companies accused of human rights abuses are sheltered in Sioux Falls washingtonpost.com/business/inter…
PANDORA PAPERS - The largest investigation in journalism history exposes a shadow financial system that benefits the world’s most rich and powerful, via @ICIJorg and partners worldwide
My first hot take on #PandoraPapers is that @ICIJorg should consider naming their leaks the way hurricanes are named, with different letters of the alphabet
This alliteration - Pandora Papers, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers - seems likely to cause a little confusion 🤷♀️
This week in an unusual move the US sent Aleksei Burkov - a Russian national sentenced to 9 years in prison for operating 2 cybercrime forums and stealing $20+ million from US consumers through credit card fraud scheme - back to Russia
Why the Hell Did America Just Send This Master Cybercriminal Back to Russia? The U.S. spent years tracking down elite Russian cybercriminal Burkov and putting him in jail. The decision to let him return to Moscow raises thorny questions, by @shanvav
Former Canadian PM Stephen Harper involved in AWZ Ventures which finances Israeli surveillance, facial recognition and crowd detection companies. UAE subsidiary AWZ Horizons will be led by ex Canadian diplomat Katherine Verrier-Fréchette by @brigittebureau cbc.ca/news/politics/…
On Twitter, Harper called the Emirates “a remarkable nation” and the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed (aka MBZ) a “friend and great leader" cbc.ca/news/politics/…
Founding Managing Partner of AWZ Ventures is Yaron Ashkenazi and strategic advisors and partners include former CIA director James Woolsey and other former FBI, MI5, Mossad, intelligence names awzventures.ca/awz-team-1.html
In March there was a report that Deripaska’s Rusal had suspended investments in Unity Aluminum in Kentucky after investing $65 million of projected $200 million
Florida Businessman and CFO of Russian Natural Gas Company Mark Anthony Gyetvay Arrested on Tax Charges Related to $93 Million Hidden in Offshore Accounts, HT @braisincapital
Mark Anthony Gyetvay is CFO of Novatek per @annalecta
US Treasury has sanctioned virtual currency exchange SUEX OTC, S.R.O. incorporated in the Czech Republic with owners based in Russia - analysis of SUEX transactions showed over 40% of SUEX’s known transaction history was associated with illicit actors