Reuters, 04/04 16:19 CET
By Kylie MacLellan and Elida Moreno
LONDON/PANAMA CITY
(Reuters) – Governments across the world began investigating possible
financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on Monday following a leak
of documents from a Panamanian law firm which allegedly showed how
clients avoided tax or laundered money.
The documents detailed schemes involving an array of
figures from friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin to relatives of
the prime ministers of Britain, Iceland and Pakistan and as well as the
president of Ukraine, journalists who received them said.
While the “Panama Papers” detail complex financial
arrangements benefitting the world’s elite, they do not necessarily mean
the schemes were all illegal.
The Kremlin said the documents contained “nothing
concrete and nothing new” while a spokesman for British Prime Minister
David Cameron said his late father’s reported links to an offshore
company were a “private matter”.
Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson could not
immediately be reached for comment on the naming of his wife in
connection with a secretive company in an offshore haven which brought
opposition calls for him to resign.
Pakistan denied any wrongdoing by the family of Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif after his daughter and son were linked to offshore
companies. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has not commented on
his reported offshore links.
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Source: Euronews
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