Pandora Papers
About Pandora Papers
The Pandora Papers, leaked in 2021, were 11.9 million documents from 14 offshore service providers. The leak was even larger than the Panama Papers. The documents exposed the offshore finances of 35 world leaders, 130 billionaires, and numerous celebrities. King Abdullah II of Jordan, Tony Blair, and the Czech Prime Andrej Babis were among those implicated. The Pandora Papers revealed how the US had become a major offshore haven through trusts in South Dakota and Delaware. The leak showed that despite promises of reform after the Panama Papers, offshore tax evasion continued largely unchecked. The Pandora Papers led to calls for public registries of beneficial ownership but produced fewer criminal charges than expected.
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