The Panama papers : breaking the story of how the rich & powerful hide their money /
Breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money
Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier.
- London : Oneworld, 2016.
- x, 336 p. ; 23 cm.
First published in the German language as "Panama papers: Die Geschichte einer weltweiten Enthüllung".
Includes bibliographical references.
Ch. 1. Start -- Ch. 2. Vladimir Putin's mysterious -- Ch. 3. The shadow of the past -- Ch. 4. Commerzbank and its lies -- Ch. 5. Mossack Fonseca's role in the Syrian war -- Ch. 6. From the Waffen-SS to the CIA and Panama -- Ch. 7. The football factory -- Ch. 8. On fishing, finding and fine art -- Ch. 9. A view of the White House -- Ch. 10. Sparks fly -- Ch. 11. Fear and trepidation -- Ch. 12. The siemens millions -- Ch. 13. "Regarding my meeting with Harry Potter" -- Ch. 14. A secret meeting with Alpine views -- Ch. 15. Mossfon holdings -- Ch. 16. Spirit of Panama -- Ch. 17. The world is not enough -- Ch. 18. The looting machine -- Ch. 19. Secret meeting in the Komitèron -- Ch. 20. At the mercy of monsters -- Ch. 21. The red nobility -- Ch. 22. The Gas princess and the Chocolate king -- Ch. 23. Those German banks -- Ch. 24. A raid by the Vikings of finance -- Ch. 25. Dead-end trails -- Ch. 26. United by marriage, united by money -- Ch. 27. Star, star, Mega Start -- Ch. 28. The fourth man and FIFA -- Ch. 29. The 99 per cent and the future of tax havens -- Ch. 30. The cold heart of the offshore world.
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents revealing how the president of Argentina has sequestered millions of dollars of state money for private use. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow S’ÛÎ_ddeutsche Zeitung journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in the secret world where complex networks of letterbox companies help the super-rich to hide their money. Faced with the contents of the largest data leak in history, they activate an international network of journalists to follow every possible line of inquiry. Operating in the strictest secrecy for over a year, they uncover cases involving European prime ministers and international dictators, emirs and kings, celebrities and aristocrats. The real-life thriller behind the story of the century, The Panama Papers is an intense, unputdownable account that proves, once and for all, that there exists a small elite living by a different set of rules and blows their secret world wide open.
Translated from the German.
9781786070470
Panama Papers
Tax evasion Tax havens Political corruption Money laundering