11 Facts About Paradise Papers

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Paradise Papers added: "Our systems were accessed by an intruder who deployed the tactics of a professional hacker".

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Paradise Papers received a controversial presidential pardon from U S President Bill Clinton on 20 January 2001, Clinton's last day in office.

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Paradise Papers revealed that Mallya sold United Spirits to Diageo in 2013, which it later approached London-based law firm Linklaters to restructuring the group structure created by Mallya.

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Paradise Papers is listed as a director for Novia Management, a Maltese company listed as a shareholder in Novia Funds Sicav Plc, Malta-based, which includes among its other shareholders Tal Silberstein, who was arrested in 2017 with Beny Steinmetz on charges of money laundering, then released.

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5.

Paradise Papers's is the wife of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who later became Prime Minister of Greece.

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6.

Paradise Papers show that the Duchy of Lancaster, a private estate of Queen Elizabeth II, held investments in two offshore financial centres, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.

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Paradise Papers said he had first disclosed the trust when he joined the Treasury in 2002, where he was Commercial Secretary from 2010 to 2013.

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8.

Paradise Papers sued when Yemen ended the joint venture and turned over operations to a Yemeni company, and lost.

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9.

Paradise Papers was still a company director and the offshore company was still active as recently as 2015.

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Paradise Papers's had pledged to divest from more than 200 firms when she was confirmed as President Barack Obama's commerce secretary in 2013, but records show that she transferred assets to a company owned by her children's trusts, which shared the same address as her office.

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Paradise Papers averred that despite having the information since 2016, the timing of the release was deliberately delayed to coincide with the meeting of EU Finance Ministers ahead of the proposed discussion of a tax haven blacklist.

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