Global research reveals how wealthy and powerful people have hidden their investments in mansions, luxury seaside real estate, yachts and other assets over the past quarter century. In summary, these assets are worth trillions of dollars.

The study, called Pandora Papers, was released at the end of Sunday and was attended by 600 journalists from 150 media in 117 countries.

A report by an international consortium of investigative journalists brought promises of tax reform, resignations and demands for investigation, as well as explanations and denials from targeted people.

Let’s take a look at some of the ones named in the survey.

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Jordan

According to a survey, advisors helped Jordanian Abdullah II set up at least thirty shell companies between 1995 and 2017, with 14 homes worth more than $ 106 million in the United States. Helping to buy, one of the UK was a $ 23 million California ocean view real estate purchased in 2017 through a British Virgin Islands company in the Caribbean Tax Haven.

On Monday, Abdullah denied fraud in buying luxury homes abroad.

This claim arises because Abdullah is seeking international assistance to bring the poor country out of recession, which could destabilize important relations between Jordan and the international community. The country is considered a stable pro-Western breakwater in an unstable region, but relies on billions of aids.

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England

Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, acquired a company in the British Virgin Islands in 2017 and became the owner of a $ 8.8 million Victorian building, which is now home to his wife. There is a law firm in Cherie Blair. For investigation.

The two acquired the company from Bahrain’s Minister of Industry and Tourism’s family, Zayed bin Rashid al-Zayani. According to a study, Blairs saved more than $ 400,000 in property taxes by buying shares in the company instead of a building in London.

The Blairs denied cheating, and a spokesman for the couple said, “Blairs pays full tax on all income. Also, using offshore schemes to hide transactions and avoid taxes. is not.”

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Pakistan

According to journalist findings, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s inner circle members have been accused of hiding millions of dollars in wealth in secret companies and trusts.

Kahn, who has not been accused of cheating, has vowed to regain “unearned profits” and said his government will investigate all the citizens listed in the document and take action if necessary. rice field.

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Czech Republic

In 2009, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš invested $ 22 million in a shell company to buy real estate in a chateau in a hilltop village in Mougins, France, near Cannes. According to a document obtained by Investigace.cz, a Czech partner of the journalism group, the shell company and the chateau were not disclosed in Bubbis’s required asset declaration.

According to a survey, a real estate group indirectly owned by Bubbis acquired the company of Monaco, which owns the chateau, in 2018.

Bavis denied cheating. He said the report was intended to harm him prior to the Czech parliamentary elections on Friday and Saturday.

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Montenegro

Studies show that Montenegro’s President Milo Đukanovich and his son established trust in 2012 and hid their wealth in a complex corporate network.

Jukanovich’s office said he had established business trust with his son in 2012 while he was not in office. After taking office as prime minister later that year, Mr. Jukanovich transferred all rights to his son, the agency said. Jukanovich was one of the owners, but there was no commercial transaction, they said.

Đukanovich was a major western ally in efforts to bring the volatile Balkan region closer to the Euro-Atlantic integration and away from Russia. After leading Montenegro to independence from Serbia in 2006, Đukanovich led a country of 600,000 people to NATO in 2017.

Montenegro is currently seeking accession to the European Union.

On Monday he faced a call to resign.

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Chile

The leaked document was written by Chilean President Sebastian Pinella, one of Chile’s wealthiest men, in a deal related to the Dominga mining project, partly co-owned by his family with friends in the British Virgin Islands. Revealed that he used an offshore company.

The final payment for the 2011 mine sale, according to the report, depended on the government’s refusal to declare itself in a protected nature reserve in north-central Chile. The government, led by Pinella at the time, did not, despite complaints from environmentalists, and subsequent governments did not.

When investigators investigated the case a few years later, Pinella said he was not involved in managing the company and was not even aware of his relationship with Dominga.

A statement released by Cheong Wa Dae on Sunday said prosecutors and courts had decided in 2017 that no crimes had been committed and Pinella was not involved. According to the statement, Pinella’s holdings are currently managed by a blind trust.

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Lebanon

Lebanese billionaire Prime Minister Najib Mikati appeared in the Pandora Paper while the country was involved in a dire financial crisis.

According to the document, Mikati, a businessman who formed a new government last month, owns a Panama-based offshore company that had purchased more than $ 10 million in assets in Monaco in 2008.

According to the report, Mikati’s son Maher is a director of at least two British Virgin Islands-based companies, and his father, Monaco-based company, M1 Group owns an office in central London. Was there.

Fares Gemayel, media adviser to Mikati.s, declined to comment. He noted Maher Mikati’s reaction to the journalism consortium, stating that it is common practice for people in Lebanon to use offshore companies “due to the simplicity of the process of incorporation.” Maher Mikati denied the intention of tax evasion.

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Brazil

The document showed that Brazilian Minister of Economy Paulo Guedes had invested millions of dollars in an offshore company named Dreadnaught International in the British Virgin Islands.

Paul Geddes said in a statement sent through his press that he provided the Public Ethics Board with all the necessary information when he took office in 2019.

“His actions have always been guided by ethics and responsibility, respecting applicable law,” the statement said, and since then Geddes has “separated himself from all his activities in the private market.” I added.

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Russia

Konstantin Ernst, image maker of Russian President Vladimir Putin and chief executive of one of the country’s leading television stations, has commanded the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and then in Moscow during the Soviet era in and around the cinema. Received a discount to buy and develop assets. Leaked document. Ernst told the organization that the deal was not secret and denied the offer of special treatment.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that he had not seen anything special in Pandora Papers’ exposure to Russia. Peskov explained the findings of a “quite unfounded series of statements” that raised the question of whether the information was reliable.

“If you have a serious publication that is based on something and cites something specific, we’ll be interested in investigating it. At this point, we don’t know why,” Peskov said.