The Panama Papers and all the players involved are coming back into light in the unsealing of doucments related to the Clinton Foundation, Iceland

These Panama Papers have been coming back into the light lately.

For example, just the other day this was released,

See source and more info at bottom.

This also came up while looking into a statement Candice Bergen made to Justin Trudeau when she was asking him to apologize. It reminded me of an Iceland case.

Here I cover the Iceland Case and the reason Why Candice Bergen may have made her comments.

https://steemit.com/pedogate/@artistiquejewels/hear-candice-bergin-tell-justic-trudeau-he-should-apologize-to-working-class-in-canada-get-off-his-high-horse-people-in-groping

So here is what I have on the Panama Papers. It is in no way all inclusive.

It is however, very important to see how all of these issues and players connect world wide!

Just a super short synopsis that can't even Begin to cover the Vast Corruption,

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and were leaked in 2015 by an anonymous source.

Short background of Mossack Fonesca and family historical connections for context.

Mossack’s father served in Hitler’s Waffen-SS during World War II, according to the Panama Papers investigation. The elder Mossack also offered to spy for the U.S. government on “former Nazis turned Communist or unconverted Nazis cloaking themselves as Communists,” after the war, according to U.S. intelligence files obtained by the ICIJ..

He also offered to spy on Communist activity in Cuba, the files show.

Jurgen Fonseca, a 63-year-old native of Panama, studied law and political science at the University of Panama and then went on to the School of Economcis and Political Science London.

He worked at the United Nations headquarters in Switzerland before starting his law firm.

Fonseca is also involved in politics, as a leader of the Panamenista party. He has taken a leave of absence from politics because of the investigation.

Mossack founded his firm in 1977, and in 1983, merged firms with Fonseca in 1983.

What's in the Panama Papers

The documents contain personal financial information about wealthy individuals and public officials that had previously been kept private. While offshore business entities are legal (see Offshore Magic Circle), reporters found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions.

As you can imagine, the whistleblower fears for his life and his family's lives! He leaked them to Bastian Obermayer, a German journalist for Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of the largest daily newspapers in Munich.

Law firms play a central role in offshore financial operations. Mossack Fonseca is one of the biggest in its field and the biggest financial institutions refer customers to it. Its services to clients include incorporating and operating shell companies in friendly jurisdictions on their behalf. They can include creating "complex shell company structures" that, while legal, also allow the firm's clients "to operate behind an often impenetrable wall of secrecy". The leaked papers detail some of their intricate, multilevel, and multinational corporate structures. Mossack Fonseca has acted with global consultancy partners like Emirates Asset Management Ltd, Ryan Mohanlal Ltd, Sun Hedge Invest and Blue Capital Ltd on behalf of more than 300,000 companies, most of them registered in the British Overseas Territories.

Leaked documents also indicate that the firm would also backdate documents on request and, based on a 2007 exchange of emails in the leaked documents, it did so routinely enough to establish a price structure: $8.75 per month in the past. In 2008, Mossack Fonseca hired a 90-year-old British man to pretend to be the owner of the offshore company of Marianna Olszewski, a US businesswoman, "a blatant breach of anti-money laundering rules" according to the BBC.

Initial reports identified five then-heads of state or government leaders from Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and the United Arab Emirates as well as government officials, close relatives, and close associates of various heads of government of more than forty other countries. Names of then-current national leaders in the documents include President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates, Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and the Prime Minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.

Former heads of state mentioned in the papers include:

Sudanese president Ahmed al-Mirghani, who was president from 1986–1989 and died in 2008.
Former Emir of Qatar Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani owned Afrodille S.A., which had a bank account in Luxembourg and shares in two South African companies. Al Thani also held a majority of the shares in Rienne S.A. and Yalis S.A., holding a term deposit with the Bank of China in Luxembourg. A relative owned 25 percent of these: Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, Qatar's former prime minister and foreign minister.

Former prime ministers:

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili of Georgia
Pavlo Lazarenko of Ukraine
Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, a former vice president of Iraq, owned property through Mossack Fonseca shell companies registered in Panama and the British Virgin Islands, for security reasons following an assassination attempt, according to his spokesperson, who added that any income from the properties was reported and taxes paid "promptly and on time."
Ion Sturza of Moldova.
Ali Abu al-Ragheb of Jordan

The leaked files identified 61 family members and associates of prime ministers, presidents and kings, including:

the brother-in-law of China's paramount leader Xi Jinping
the son of Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak
children of former prime minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif
children of Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev
Clive Khulubuse Zuma, the nephew of former South African president Jacob Zuma
Nurali Aliyev, the grandson of Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev
Mounir Majidi, the personal secretary of Moroccan king Mohammed VI
Kojo Annan, the son of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
Mark Thatcher, the son of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher
Juan Armando Hinojosa, the "favourite contractor" of Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.
Spanish Royal Family: Infanta Pilar, Duchess of Badajoz and her son Bruno Gómez-Acebes, Iñaki Urdangarín, Amalio de Marichalar, and people close to the family like the mistress of former King Juan Carlos I, Corinna Larsen.
Other clients included less-senior government officials and their close relatives and associates, from over forty countries.

Over £10 million of cash from the sale of the gold stolen in the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery was laundered, first unwittingly and later with the complicity of Mossack Fonseca, through a Panamanian company, Feberion Inc. The company was set up on behalf of an unnamed client twelve months after the robbery. The Brinks money was put through Feberion and other front companies, through banks in Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Jersey, and the Isle of Man. It issued bearer shares only. Two nominee directors from Sark were appointed to Feberion by Jersey-based offshore specialist Centre Services. The offshore firms recycled the funds through land and property transactions in the United Kingdom. Although the Metropolitan Police Service raided the offices of Centre Services in late 1986 in cooperation with Jersey authorities, and seized papers and two Feberion bearer shares, it wasn't until 1995 that Brink's-Mat's solicitors were finally able to take control of Feberion and the assets.

Actor Jackie Chan is mentioned in the leaked documents as a shareholder in six companies based in the British Virgin Islands.

So what does this have to do with Trudeau?

According to the Huffington Post,

The Canadian members of the journalistic consortium estimate there are some 625 Canadians named in the documents. Here is the latest news on the Panama Papers leaks. Check back here for updates.

The CBC reports it has identified the Canadian individual who used Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca more than any other to set up offshore corporations — Fred Sharp, a former Vancouver lawyer whose company reportedly set up 1,167 "offshore entities" for his clients.

The documents reportedly show that Sharp's overseas company, Bond and Co., made efforts to hide the true identity of its clients — including ordering Mossack Fonseca to destroy invoices, and to minimize documentation flowing home to Canada.

But the Panama Papers show Sharp's relationship with that client, who had dozens of fraud convictions, didn't end there. Mossack Fonseca documents show the RCMP came sniffing around a company Sharp had set up for the client, alleging that the company was used "to perpetrate a $2.1 million fraud" against a brokerage firm in the Isle of Man.

The Panama Papers leak shows that there is a secretive network of "enablers" helping Canadians to ship their wealth offshore, the Toronto Star reports.

The leak last month saw some 11.5 million documents released, including offshore accounts linked to politicians and celebrities around the world. It forced the resignation of Iceland's prime minister and became a major political headache for British Prime Minister David Cameron.

See more in the source below.

UPDATE 5/10/2016 10:48 am ET — Familiar energy company names in the database

Names related to a number of Canadian energy companies appear in the Panama Papers database, the National Observer reports, but two of them are denying any links to the listed offshore entities.

Two listings with the name "Encana" appear in the documents.

"We ... have determined that the Encana Energy S.A. entity has no affiliation with our company," a spokesperson told HuffPost Canada in an email.

A company named "Enbridge Finance" also appears in the documents, but the Observer reports it has "no connection" to the Calgary-based energy distributor.

Okay, so fine you say, that covers Canada, Iceland and many other countries.

So what does this have to do with the Clinton Foundation?

Great and Very Apt Question. Check back. I'm getting to that and will drop a link here.

I got it done, it is here,

https://steemit.com/politics/@artistiquejewels/the-panama-papers-and-all-the-players-involved-are-coming-back-into-light-in-the-unsealing-of-doucments-related-to-the-clinton

Here are more articles related to info which has surfaced in relation to players involved in the Panama Papers,

https://steemit.com/pedogate/@artistiquejewels/hear-candice-bergin-tell-justic-trudeau-he-should-apologize-to-working-class-in-canada-get-off-his-high-horse-people-in-groping

What are your thoughts and research on this?

Please let me know in your comments below.

Sources;

https://www.dailycrusader.com/2018/12/first-doj-indictments-unsealed-clinton-foundation-connected-bank-mossack-fonseca-tied-to-money-laundering/?fbclid=IwAR3RXgcDtYs0G4i-LKZmp5dkppIKTQ8NtiIyP0J4NHHfTnZvOSf-NjyaffE

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/05/09/panama-papers-canadian-names_n_9869810.html

https://heavy.com/news/2016/04/jurgen-mossack-ramon-fonseca-mora-panama-papers-leaks-partners-documents-photos-firm-tax-haven-lawyers/