Reply to post: Re: re: ICJ

Panama Papers graph database cracked open for world+dog

Anonymous Coward
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Re: re: ICJ

Since 370 journos...

They have. Just not where you looking for:

1. Several cases of sanctions busting and sanctions bypass by various middle-eastern regimes under sanctions.

2. Corruptions on planetary system scale involving leases of natural resources by various African banana republics and clown dictatorships to usual suspect mining companies. Pretty much the plot of "Dogs of War" repeated again... and again... and again... Sure, dodgy dictators hide funds offshore. Question is not that they hid them, question is where the funds came from and quite often the Panama papers have that trail too pointing to the set of usual mining suspects. That subject falls under the foreign corruption act in the USA and according to USA law it has jurisdiction over these provided that any of the parties involved have any assets in USA (and they do).

3. Undeclared conflicts of interest similar to the Iceland case are actually criminal offenses under fraud and corruption statutes in most of the developed countries involved. However, the story there is the same as with 2007. Then, only Iceland prosecuted some of the culprits. Everyone else got off. Some went on to become prime ministers despite presiding over decades of monumental accounting fraud in their capacity as central bank chairmen.

So coming back to your statement - they have uncovered plenty of stuff. However, there is different justice for people who pass the real criteria for admittance to certain private schools (having an off shore trust fund). So they will not get prosecuted. As their "justice" is not the "justice" (quotes intended and needed) which applies to plebs like you and me.

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