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Pandora Papers then?

 
it's a new leak

 
I know, and that's exactly the same article posted on the other thread yesterday.
This is a bit different tbf. All off it is corruption of course.

The Panama documentary on BBC is telling. Especially dirty money properties being brought by Crown Estates for twice the price.
 
It's one rule for them and another for us

 
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yeah - most people on the planet are already very aware that the super rich bend and break the law to protect their wealth - the how and where is kind of irrelevant - and depressing - unless there is some way of holding them to account. Which - of course - there absolutely isn't.
 
November 3, 2021
More good work by the icij
Secrecy also empowers criminals, including money launderers and drug cartels.Their trade in real estate through offshore companies moves millions of dollars while avoiding scrutiny. In the United Kingdom, a director of the National Crime Agency said he believed that dirty money had “skewed” London’s property market.

The combination of asset security and secrecy has also made offshore holdings a haven for money and other assets from less stable economies. A growing body of evidence suggests that offshore purchases at the high end of the real estate market have a ripple effect, pricing out people lower down the property ladder.

In the U.K. alone, the Pandora Papers reveal the beneficial owners of an estimated $5 billion of property, much of it in London, where more than 36,000 properties are owned through offshore companies.

The leaked records reveal a small fraction of the homes, hotels, factories and other properties owned worldwide through companies and trusts set up in tax havens. One recent study estimated that real estate worth between $5 trillion and $10 trillion — or about as much as the total wealth of Spain — could be owned through offshore vehicles.
 
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