Panama Papers source breaks silence over 'scale of injustices'

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Panama Papers source breaks silence over 'scale of injustices'

Whistleblower says leak of 11.5m Mossack Fonseca files on offshore
tax havens has triggered debate but not enough action

Luke Harding
Friday 6 May 2016 16.00 BST

The whistleblower behind the Panama Papers broke their silence on Friday to explain in detail how the injustices of offshore tax havens drove them to the biggest data leak in history.

The source, whose identity and gender remain a secret, denied being a spy.

“For the record, I do not work for any government or intelligence agency, directly or as a contractor, and I never have. My viewpoint is entirely my own.”

The whistleblower said the leak of 11.5m documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had triggered a “new, encouraging global debate”, thanks to the publication last month of stories by an international consortium of newspapers, including the Guardian.

“Shell companies are often associated with the crime of tax evasion. But the Panama Papers show beyond a shadow of a doubt that although shell companies are not illegal, by definition they are used to carry out a wide array of serious crimes,” the source wrote. “Income inequality is one of the defining issues of our time.”

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/may/06/panama-papers-source-breaks-silence-over-scale-of-injustices

[Blue_Tires]

1. At least I can give this source credit for letting the files speak for themselves

and not acting as if he's Jesus on the fuckin' cross like a certain attention-whoring defector in Moscow who's popular here...

I thought there would be more legs to this, but it's clear a lot of people lost interest when they discovered there wasn't something they could directly pin to Hillary... And sadly nobody seems to give a shit about Putin laundering $2b...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

2. I wonder if we see a lack of interest here because Americans

Use different tax shelters and this is more Eurasian related

[Blue_Tires]

3. Well, that's the *really* disturbing part...

It's kind of gotten lost in the mix, but we have to remind ourselves that as huge as an 11 million document leak spanning across 35+ years is, it's shockingly still just ONE outfit from ONE country...

There are hundreds more just like them in the Caribbean alone, and we'll never know those secrets...