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3 Oct, 9 tweets, 5 min read

As his country flooded with refugees and faced unrest, the King of Jordan secretly amassed a collection of luxury homes across the globe. The man who orchestrated the royal’s acquisitions?

A former Saskatchewan government accountant. #PandoraPapers thestar.com/news/investiga…

King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein acquired 14 properties worth over $106 million (U.S.) using some of his 36 shell companies in secretive tax havens, newly leaked documents reveal.

He did it when Canada and other nations were sending billions to Jordan. thestar.com/news/investiga…

And the man who orchestrated King Abdullah’s asset acquisitions?

Andrew Evans, whose career trajectory ascended from a $26,000 government salary in Regina in the 1980s to the Jordanian royal court where he served as a personal wealth manager to the king. thestar.com/news/investiga…

During that tenure, Evans went to extraordinary lengths to hide King Abdullah’s ownership of offshore shell companies and ensure an expanding list of luxury homes could not be traced back to him, documents show. #PandoraPapers thestar.com/news/investiga…

This comes as a massive leak of offshore financial records, the #pandorapapers, has exposed thousands of offshore accounts used by the global elite to move trillions of dollars into secretive shell companies with impunity. thestar.com/news/investiga…

Nearly 12 million documents leaked to the Washington D.C.-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) were shared with more than 600 reporters in 117 countries, including journalists at the Toronto Star. #PandoraPapers thestar.com/news/investiga…

The papers include a global cast of prominent businesspeople, celebrities, fugitives, judges and tax officials -- including more than 30 world leaders -- and hundreds of Canadians. #PandoraPapers thestar.com/news/investiga…

The new leak builds on the 2016 Panama Papers investigation, which triggered tax investigations around the world and recouped billions of dollars in tax. In Canada, no one has been charged and the CRA can't confirm if any tax dollars have been recouped. thestar.com/news/investiga…

Read more about #PandoraPapers here: thestar.com/pandorapapers.…

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