{"id":20005,"date":"2016-04-18T19:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20005"},"modified":"2016-04-18T19:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:33:48","slug":"panama-papers-the-geopolitical-impact-of-tax-evasion-and-offshoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20005","title":{"rendered":"Panama Papers: The Geopolitical Impact of Tax Evasion and Offshoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/panama-papers-the-geopolitical-impact-of-tax-evasion-and-offshoring\/\">Panama Papers: The Geopolitical Impact of Tax Evasion and Offshoring<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-thumbnail alignright\" title=\"Mossack Fonseca Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/d38zmh0wuwwzd1.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/22Mossackl.jpg\" alt=\"Mossack Fonseca Logo\" \/>The recent revelations of the so\u2013called\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/george-soros-targeting-putin-through-the-panama-papers\/\">Panama Papers<\/a>\u2013 a massive 2.6 TB collection of data concerning the hidden shell companies of the world\u2019s leaders and other famed personalities \u2013 have sent waves of astonishment through societies around the world. Since the release of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/george-soros-targeting-putin-through-the-panama-papers\/\">Panama Papers<\/a>\u00a0on April 3rd by the Munich-based daily\u00a0<em>S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em>, in conjunction with the Washington DC- based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the fallout has continued to rattle various political regimes, as hurricanes of PR-aimed stunts, legal investigations, state-enacted Internet bans, and even the resignation of a prime minister have ensued. The fall-out of the event has been quite embarrassing and in many cases damaging for all parties involved.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, fingers are being pointed at various individuals and organizations as the alleged culprits behind the leak that has been dubbed as the \u201cgreatest leak of the century\u201d by some commentators. Although the leaker of the cache has been known simply as \u201cJohn Doe\u201d (arguably a rather dry pseudonym \u2013 why not something a bit more fierce-sounding like \u201cFireFawkes\u201d?), certain state intelligence agencies, such as the CIA have not been exempt from the accusation as well.\u00a0 This hypothesis takes into consideration that many of the affected states and individuals are viewed as \u201cenemies\u201d or \u201crivals\u201d of the United States by Washington, while the leak has left the United States relatively unscathed.\u00a0 Major states revealed in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.geopoliticalmonitor.com\/george-soros-targeting-putin-through-the-panama-papers\/\">Panama Papers<\/a>, such as the People\u2019s Republic of China, Russia, North Korea, and Argentina, have had or continue to have some historic tension with the United States over ideology or over some global or regional designs. On the other hand, Moscow has been accused of being behind the leak due to the speculation that the hacker who leaked the archives to the German daily was suspected of having a Russian sponsorship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panama Papers: The Geopolitical Impact of Tax Evasion and Offshoring The recent revelations of the so\u2013called\u00a0Panama Papers\u2013 a massive 2.6 TB collection of data concerning the hidden shell companies of the world\u2019s leaders and other famed personalities \u2013 have sent waves of astonishment through societies around the world. Since the release of the\u00a0Panama Papers\u00a0on April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[12926,13295,13296,13292,13515,13259,3373],"class_list":["post-20005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-andre-ishii","tag-icij","tag-international-consortium-of-investigative-journalists","tag-mossack-fonseca","tag-offshoring","tag-panama-papers","tag-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20007,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions\/20007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}