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The study, which involved more than 650 journalists from dozens of media outlets, used 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 financial services companies around the world.
These documents cover the financial transactions of some 35 current and former Heads of State and Government and about 300 other public officials.
The study found Russian President Vladimir Putin’s involvement in secret assets in Monaco. It also states that Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrejs Babišs has not declared an offshore investment company, which he used to buy two villas France south and that Jordan King Abdullah secretly bought property in Britain and ASV for about 80 million euros. In turn Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev’s family members and associates have been involved in hundreds of millions of euros in real estate transactions in the UK, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyat and his family members own a network of secret offshore companies, but Pakistan People in the immediate circle of Prime Minister Imran Hana, including government ministers and their families, secretly own companies that hide hundreds of millions of euros, the study said.
An international consortium of investigative journalists points out that in most countries it is not forbidden to own offshore assets, but these findings may be inconvenient for politicians who have publicly urged the fight against corruption or austerity measures.
Over the past seven years, the International Consortium of Research Journalists has conducted similar studies (FinCen Files, Paradise Papers), Panama Papers and LuxLeaks. However, the new study is the largest to date.
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