Identities+emails of rich hiding cash offshore, $32trillion's worth

[syd syside]

Millions of internal records have leaked from Britain's offshore financial industry, exposing for the first time the identities of thousands of holders of anonymous wealth from around the world, from presidents to plutocrats, the daughter of a notorious dictator and a British millionaire accused of concealing assets from his ex-wife.

 

The leak of 2m emails and other documents, mainly from the offshore haven of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has the potential to cause a seismic shock worldwide to the booming offshore trade, with a former chief economist at McKinsey estimating that wealthy individuals may have as much as $32tn (£21tn) stashed in overseas havens.

 

[...]

 

The names have been unearthed in a novel project by the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [iCIJ], in collaboration with the Guardian and other international media, who are jointly publishing their research results this week.

 

The naming project may be extremely damaging for confidence among the world's wealthiest people, no longer certain that the size of their fortunes remains hidden from governments and from their neighbours.

 

[...]

 

As well as Britons hiding wealth offshore, an extraordinary array of government officials and rich families across the world are identified, from Canada, the US, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Iran, China, Thailand and former communist states.

 

The data seen by the Guardian shows that their secret companies are based mainly in the British Virgin Islands.

 

Sample offshore owners named in the leaked files include:

 

[...]

 

• US: Offshore clients include Denise Rich, ex-wife of notorious oil trader Marc Rich, who was controversially pardoned by President Clinton on tax evasion charges. She put $144m into the Dry Trust, set up in the Cook Islands.

 

[...]

 

The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks caused a storm of controversy in 2010 when it was able to download almost two gigabytes of leaked US military and diplomatic files.

 

The new BVI data, by contrast, contains more than 200 gigabytes, covering more than a decade of financial information about the global transactions of BVI private incorporation agencies. It also includes data on their offshoots in Singapore, Hong Kong and the Cook Islands in the Pacific.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/03/offshore-secrets-offshore-tax-haven

[Guest Iain C]

Kill them and redistribute their assets IMHO

[LimpyLoo]

Kill them and redistribute their assets IMHO

 

and then kill the recipients and re-redistribute the assets IMHO

[Uniret]

 

Kill them and redistribute their assets IMHO

 

and then kill the recipients and re-redistribute the assets IMHO

 

Imho two/too

[Tamagotchi San]

Nothing will happen.... it never does...

[azatoth]

Re-distribute and shame these people for what they are, parasites.

[RichieBees]

but also thjis is a classic example of discriminatio against rich people, they clearly earned all that money through their hard work and so the govt shouldnt steal it from them

[mcbpete]

I was friends with a Thjis Discriminatio once - lovely, lovely man.

[Guest Al Hounos]

Re-distribute and shame these people for what they are, parasites.

and then kill them.

 

If organizations like the IMF and the World Bank really cared about development, they'd put this money to work helping people instead of letting it rot in tax havens.

[Guest Ron Manager]

I was friends with a Thjis Discriminatio once - lovely, lovely man.

 

 

wonderful name for something, or someone.

[RichieBees]

lol

do you think in some place in london or somewhere a bunch of people are running about burning files and smashing computers with hammers

[YO303]

Jesus fucking Christ, 32 trillion?? imagine what we could do with that amount of money (if distributed properly, not on wars etc)

 

I do not feel sorry for these fucking rats, if they die by a huge black guy shoving a broom up their ass i would chuckle and feel okay with myself because they deserve it.

 

Stuff like this makes me wish karma were real

 

32 trillion

 

32 TRILLION!!!

 

fuck this world

[perunamuusi]

Kill them and redistribute their assets IMHO

[syd syside]

 

 

 

one trillion dollars

 

[psn]

I'm giving away one trillion dollars, local pickup only.

[perunamuusi]

 

 

 

one trillion dollars

 

 

 

Looks like FEMA concentration camp stackable plastic coffin reserves

[kakapo]

Kill them and redistribute their assets. But then extend this to all thieves, particularly those convicted in the 2011 riots. .

[YO303]

but also thjis is a classic example of discriminatio against rich people, they clearly earned all that money through their hard work and so the govt shouldnt steal it from them

 

I don't care that they are rich (if you earned it its fine by me be as rich as you can), the problem is when they do sneaky things like this just to save 15-20 percent of their billion dollar fortune while everybody else who isn't rich has to pay taxes,etc.

 

I don't mind paying taxes but when these fucking rats are getting away with tax evasion etc its fucked up.

[RichieBees]

lol

[Plarkreluke Banloboh]

I think we should kill them and redistribute their assets IMHO.

[BCM]

kill their assets and redistribute the people.

[pcock]

assets, assets, assets and tittes.

[sunshine recorder]

this amount of money sits there gathering interest and people are starving across the planet,humans are an evil plague that needs wiping out,bring it on north korea!

[Plarkreluke Banloboh]

Once we kill them and redistribute the wealth everyone left in the world will get $4,588.64

 

I'm gonna get a Cwejman S1 Mk2!

 

[mcbpete]

I'm gonna get 9 of these -