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I don't think many people know, yet, about the motivation of whoever put the information into the public domain. From what little I know it seems to have been an external hack rather than an internal whistleblower which could make it more likely there was a political motivation of some kind. But...

No I am saying it is likely to be mostly illegal (if it wasn't you probably wouldn't be in Panama). But it is very difficult (even with the leaked documents) to be 100% sure and so far nothing has been tested in court (and a lot will never be if the Swissleaks experience is anything to go by)...

The whole 'not doing anything illegal' stuff is for the lawyers. Panama is dirty as f*ck. Setting up a shell company through Panama and saying you are only there for legitimate business reasons is like being caught in a brothel and saying you were only in there for a drink. It might be true. But...

And a lot of UK banks and UK tax havens making it all possible.

Duibai is built on dodgy money and exploited labour. Horrible place.

There is very little economic advantage to money spent on yachts. Governments spend the majority of their budget on education, health, pensions and transport (which boosts the economy more effectively than equivalent private sector expenditure btw - or did you not know that?) I prefer that...

'Muddled' is conflating 'cash in hand' payments with global criminality, sanctions busting, and defrauding poor countries out of billions of dollars. All carried out by people who have the power and influence to ensure that the rules, nationally and internationally, continue to be rigged in...

Ok mate

You sure about that?

No. Not sure what the connection is, but since we are playing this game... Have you ever siphoned millions of illicitly obtained dollars through an anonymous company in order to hide it from the tax authorities in a developing country or to line your pockets by dodging internationally agreed...

What about if it was Joey Barton dodging taxes?

The single biggest location (by some way) for registration of shell companies revealed in these papers is the British Virgin Islands. Controlled by the UK. Also the second (after Hong Kong) biggest location for the law firm and banks involved in facilitating all this activity is...the UK. I...

The leaks have been going on over at least the last year (to a german newspaper). Very brave work by someone. But it's been a huge job to collate, examine and present the dat, and that is what has been done by the coalition of investigative journalists (this is exactly what good journalists...

No, it will be a mix and that is the point. It is the system that is revealed here. A system that can be used in lots of different ways - from 'legal' tax avoidance to flat out tax evasion, money laundering and sanctions busting. But what all those that use the system have in common is that they...