Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% from Panama Leak

That article is bullshit. Yes, we can't access the raw data - true, but understandable. The editor in-chief of the SZ says they are still working on it and will expose more and more "in waves", often getting statements from the accused before or sharing it with law enforcement agencies. And no, they didn't focus on Russia or Assad, one of the main revelations was that three members of Iceland's government (PM, financial, interior) have offshore accounts. And the scandal was, that the PM bailed out banks he had personal investments in. so no, "corporate media" isn't ignoring "the west". Also, as published pretty much everywhere, a number of heads of state had offshore accounts, many allies of "the west": Mauricio Macri, president or Argentina. Bidzina Ivanishvill. ex PM of Georgia Sigmundur something something, PM of Iceland. Ayad H. Allawi, ex PM of Iraq. Ali Abu-Ragheb, ex PM of Jordan. Hamad Jasim J.M. Al-Thani, ex PM of Qatar. Sheik Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar. HRH Prince Salman, King of Saudi Arabia Ahmad Al-Nirghani, ex-president of Sudan Sultan Al-Nahyan, president of the UAE. Pavlo Lazarenko, ex-PM of Ukraine. Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukraine.

Also pretty much every major german bank is on the list, as published widely, and new evidence in the Siemens scandal came to light. Non-germans didn't get fully published yet, because the journalists give them the chance to respond to the accusations (having an offshore account isn't illegal by itself, but is often used to hide the identitiy of the owner to do illegal things).

To think, that for a database of 2.6tb, that data can just be made public and seeded (see main HN thread) is absurd. Source confidentiality and all

This will roll out slowly like the Snowden leaks over time. Lets hope an pray, this time its about money something everyone understands an can get angry about.

On CNN, top news is about some soccer star charged with DUI.

And nothing about this Panama thing on the home page.

>That article is bullshit.

I found the article useful actually.

I mistakenly assumed, very naively, that these people handling the leaks were wikileaks kind of people and not these other kind of people:

>The leak is being managed by the grandly but laughably named “International Consortium of Investigative Journalists”, which is funded and organised entirely by the USA’s Center for Public Integrity. Their funders include

>Ford Foundation >Carnegie Endowment >Rockefeller Family Fund >W K Kellogg Foundation >Open Society Foundation (Soros)

I thought so too, it's silly to pretend this is all about putin putin putin and his cellists. Besides i would expect the russians to have moved their money in some offshore corner in middle east rather than panama. The Bloomberg website does not even report it in its frontpage right now (eventhough possibly many of their customers are in the list). However i trust that they are keeping the best bits for the starting week.

This seems very interesting btw. We should just face the fact that offshore banking exists and is neither good or evil, its a product of globalization and the emerging stateless jet set. If anything , maybe more and more people should take advantage of it.