The Pandora Papers exposed leaked files that tie hundreds of world leaders and celebrities to offshore tax havens hiding assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars aje.io/trpx3e
The Pandora Papers exposed the ties between world leaders, celebrities and sport stars to the hidden world of offshore wealth collectively worth trillions of dollars.
Here is a look at some of those named in the investigation ➡️ aje.io/qsgkdq
Jordan's King Abdullah II is among those named in the Pandora Papers.
Documents show that King Abdullah created a network of offshore companies and tax havens to amass a $100m property empire from Malibu, California to Washington, DC and London aje.io/4czecj
The Pandora Papers also exposed the wealth of allies to Pakistan's PM Imran Khan.
Two members of Khan’s cabinet were prominent in the leaks - alongside more than 700 other Pakistani citizens including donors to his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party aje.io/n9enu2
The Pandora Papers show that Lebanon's recently reappointed billionaire PM Najib Mikati owns a Panama-based offshore company which he used to buy property in Monaco worth $10m.
The findings come as the country faces an economic crisis aje.io/jupsdr
The Pandora Papers suggest the family of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is linked to at least 13 offshore companies.
One of the companies has assets worth at least $30 million ⬇️
In response to the Pandora Papers, Jordan's royal palace says that King Abdullah's properties in the US and UK were "no secret" and that privacy and security reasons were behind not disclosing them ⬇️
Russia has dismissed leaks in the Pandora Papers implicating President Putin as “unsubstantiated claims”.
The investigation shone a light on wealth allegedly amassed by Kremlin-linked individuals aje.io/shj6q3
While not directly named in the Pandora Papers, Pakistan's PM Imran Khan has vowed to investigate Pakistani citizens that have been linked to millions of dollars of offshore dealings, including prominent members of his own cabinet.
Ukraine's President Zelenskyy transferred his stake in a secret offshore company in 2012 just before he was elected.
His office sought to justify those offshore accounts following leaked revelations in the Pandora Papers ➡️ aje.io/eqxcr9
Ex-Hong Kong leaders CY Leung and Tung Chee-hwa were named in the Pandora Papers over the undisclosed sale of company shares and setting up offshore companies to skirt taxes.
Both now serve as senior members of an advisory committee for the Chinese gov't aje.io/dv6bj3
Lebanon PM Mikati says his wealth is legal after Pandora Papers leak reveals he owns an offshore firm in Panama aje.io/nvprur
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Israel attacked the Lebanese capital Beirut in a new wave of powerful air attacks overnight, while it continues its deadly bombardment across the besieged Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian man has been injured by live bullets in the chest during the Israeli forces' storming of the town of Aqqaba in the occupied West Bank, according to the report.
Two Palestinian journalist siblings, Ahmad Abu Sakhil and Zahra Abu Sakhil, have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Fahd al-Sabah school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Tuffah neighbourhood of Gaza City.
The UN has warned that Palestinian civilians held under “near-total brutal siege” by Israeli forces in northern Gaza are “starving while the world watches”.
Israeli fighter jets are carrying out a 'very heavy bombardment,' with four consecutive strikes reported near Beirut's airport, according to Lebanon’s Al Araby Al Jadeed news outlet.
Israeli forces hit the children's ward with incubators at Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital using "planes and quadcopter drones," forcing the evacuation of the nursery, according to medical staff member Eid Sabbah.
“The entire population of Gaza is at risk of dying in a genocide that has been announced and executed under our watch”, says Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories.
Israeli soldiers raided a home and a warehouse in Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank tonight, reports Wafa news agency, adding that Israeli snipers were also deployed during the raid.
Israeli forces have committed a 'major massacre' in which hundreds of Palestinians were killed in the Jabalia refugee camp, according to Gaza’s civil defence, while intense Israeli attacks continue across Lebanon.
Around 150 Palestinians have been killed and injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp, which has levelled at least 10 residential buildings, reports the Wafa news agency.
Israeli fighter jets have carried out at least 12 air raids on Beirut in recent hours, striking the Haret Hreik, Borj al-Brajneh, Choueifat and Hadath areas south of the Lebanese capital, according to the report.
Israeli forces are targeting hospitals in northern Gaza, while they continue the stifling siege on Jabalia and deadly attacks across the besieged enclave.
Israeli forces have laid siege to the al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia and the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, where hospital staff say tanks have surrounded the facilities and are shelling the buildings.