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BASTIAN: So, it was
in the winter of 2015,
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I was at the house
with my parents,
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with my wife and my kids.
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And everybody was
sick, so really sick.
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I was the last one standing.
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Then I got this first ping, this
first message from a person who
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called himself John Doe, and
asked if I would be interested
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in data.
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NEWS REPORTER 1: We turn now to
the bombshell causing shockwaves
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around the world, the
so-called Panama Papers.
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NEWS REPORTER 2: What may be the
largest leak of secret documents
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in history.
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NEWS REPORTER 3: Massive
document leak allegedly showing
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how world leaders and the
mega-rich hide billions
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of dollars.
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NEWS REPORTER 4: A new report
which finds eight billionaires
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own as much wealth as the
poorest half of the
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world's population.
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NEWS REPORTER 5: The papers
paint a picture of wide-spread
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corruption and tax evasion.
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NEWS REPORTER 6: Now we
have journalists stepping in,
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trying to tear down those
barriers of secrecy and exposing
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what is happening
behind closed doors.
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NEWS REPORTER 7: The
revelation now kicking off a
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world-wide investigation.
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NEWS REPORTER 8: The whole
issue here is about secrecy.
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People can create shell
corporations and secretly move
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money around.
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NEWS REPORTER 9: World-wide
estimates suggest tens of
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trillions of dollars are
hidden in off-shore accounts.
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NEWS REPORTER 10: What's really
shocking is the fact that twelve
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current or former heads of
state are being accused in
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these papers.
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NEWS REPORTER 11: A journalist
investigating the Panama Papers
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has been killed, sending other
journalists into hiding for fear
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of their safety.
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NEWS REPORTER 12: The law
firm is denying any wrongdoing,
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but this scandal,
the Panama Papers,
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is just beginning.
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JOHN: My viewpoint
is entirely my own.
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Income inequality is one of
the defining issues of our time.
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It affects all of
us, the world over.
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Still, questions remain.
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Why?
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And why now?
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The Panama Papers provide a
compelling answer to
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these questions.
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Massive, pervasive corruption.
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It's not a coincidence that the
answers come from a law firm.
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Mossack Fonseca used its
influence to write and bend laws
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worldwide to favor the interest
of criminals over a period
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of decades.
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BASTIAN: In the first
day and the first days,
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it was so fascinating because
this window in our world opened
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where nobody had ever looked in.
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I always wanted to write.
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Um, I wanted to
become a novelist,
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but that didn't really work out,
so I intended to become a
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sports writer.
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And that also didn't
work out, and here I am, so...
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BASTIAN: Well, I think it's,
um, more or less the defense for
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injustice in some way.
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We founded our own
paper in Rosenheim,
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where I come from, because we
had the feeling that all the
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media there are very much
right-wing orientated and that
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your important stories
are not really told.
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The fact that the
data of Mossack Fonseca,
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which I knew as a black hole.
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They work with all
kinds of criminals.
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You know, they all hold the
information that people who want
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to keep their secrets put in
there to disappear from
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the public.
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So I knew the
company, and I thought,
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you know, this guy has access
to the inner stuff of
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Mossack Fonseca.
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I'm the guy who
wants to have it.
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KATRIN: Mossack Fonseca
is a law firm from Panama,
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and their business is secrecy.
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If you have about
a thousand euros,
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you can buy an offshore
company, it's quite easy,
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and then you can
even buy, like,
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shame directors which means
that all the business you do,
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someone else is signing, someone
else is "doing the business".
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So no one actually
knows that you own stuff,
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and you can hide
all your businesses.
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There's a world that is only
accessible for the powerful and
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the richest, where
they hide their money,
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where they enable
money laundering,
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corruption, and actually, the
plundering of all continents.
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NEWS REPORTER 13: Since 2015,
the richest one percent have
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been more wealthy than the
rest of the world's
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population combined.
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Now Oxfam says the poorest 10%
have seen their income increase
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by less than $3 a year
between 1988 and 2011.
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BASTIAN: If we have streets that
are in not a good condition,
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if we do not have enough
preschool places or good schools
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or if we do have to pay too
much money for universities,
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that is due to the fact that
there's so many people out there
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that are avoiding
and evading taxes.
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That's a problem that is
concerning every country all
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around the world,
and every one of us.
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BASTIAN: In the first days, it
didn't seem like this is the
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biggest leak in
history of journalism.
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It only was, this seems
to be a really good story.
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FREDERIK: The amount of data
that Bastian and me received
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grew and grew.
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It was really like an addiction.
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I spent night and day
clicking through the data.
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FREDERIK: When we then found the
first names of heads of state
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heads of government.
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We found, you know, the
best friend of Vladimir Putin.
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We found the
Icelandic Prime Minister.
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Even celebrities.
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We always found something that
I thought this is really
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worth reporting.
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If you find money
tied to Bashar Al-Assad,
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and to Vladimir Putin,
and to other dictators,
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then you somehow have the
feeling maybe it's not a good
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idea that only I know.
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Some colleagues
asked us, actually,
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are you crazy sharing a scoop?
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Giving away something our
newspaper could have alone?
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But by sharing, we enabled this
investigation to be something
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big and to make our
investigations better.
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FREDERIK: So we reached out
to the ICIJ in Washington and
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tracked the data.
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MARINA: ICIJ was
created 20 years ago,
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and we can say that its mission
is to defeat the traditional
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model of the lone wolf
investigative reporter.
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The lone wolf investigative
reporter is all for herself or
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himself, and so ICIJ was created
as a network of investigative
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reporters in more than 60
countries who collaborate on
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stories that are too complex,
and that need to be told from a
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collective perspective, from
a collaborative perspective,
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that need to be
told across borders,
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in collaboration.
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The general
meeting is at 3:45.
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I am originally from Argentina.
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I went into
journalism fairly young at 18,
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decided to be a journalist.
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I saw a lot of, uh, inequality
in my country growing up,
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a lot of corruption, and I
wanted to do something about it,
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but not from an
activist point of view,
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but from a
journalistic point of view.
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MARINA: When we started
receiving the data from
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Süddeutsche Zeitung and
analyzing it and realizing that
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it was connected
to 200 countries,
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that there were thousands
of public figures and prime
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ministers and presidents
and princesses and queens,
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and we have to do the biggest
investigation we have ever done
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to do justice to this data.
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GERARD: I have to admit, my
first thought was skepticism
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because I thought, well, we've
done these stories on
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off-shore before.
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We've done, I
think at that stage,
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four or five of them, and I was
wondering how it was gonna be
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possible to get all the media
partners interested in doing
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another story about off-shore,
but we really had cracked the
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off-shore.
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Well, even though we had
done previous stories,
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we didn't have this kind
of information before,
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and I really thought
it was a breakthrough.
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EMILIA: 11.5 million documents.
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You have all these
complex kind of documents,
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some that you familiarize with,
but sometimes you also have
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databases within them.
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MATTHEW: They
were mostly emails,
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PDFs and everything else,
but because there were so many
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millions of documents, we had to
make it easy for journalists to
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search through them
by using data sets,
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for example, all the
clients of Mossack Fonseca,
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all the intermediaries,
clients per country,
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and so on.
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BASTIAN: Every company
has a number and a folder,
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so it's very easy to
navigate, actually,
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in the original data.
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EMILIA: Then we upload it
to a platform that we call
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"Blacklight", and
this becomes like,
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Google, where
you have a search box.
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So you're actually able to
figure out what are some names
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of people of public interest in
your country are present in
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that data.
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GERARD: One big danger here was
that someone was feeding us the
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documents and then would perhaps
slip in some false information
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into the documents.
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We wanted to make sure
that wasn't happening.
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We had done some work on
Mossack Fonseca in the past,
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so we actually had a set of
documents that we could compare
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the information we were
getting from the new source,
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the John Doe source,
with what we had before.
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So my, you know, early stage
was to to keep questioning
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everything and to make sure that
we were jumping every hurdle.
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EMILIA: We decided to
reconstruct a database of the
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companies and the shareholders
connected to Mossack Fonseca.
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It's called Linkurious, and
you just start typing people's
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names, or companies' names.
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You will get a
circle called a node,
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and if you click on
it, it start expanding,
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and then you will be able to see
how many companies a person is
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connected to or who are the
shareholders behind a company.
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MARINA: We literally took
months to make available this
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information to the journalists,
and we were making it available
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in batches up
until the very end.
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I think the last batch of
information of documents was
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released perhaps a couple of
months before publication.
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MARINA: You don't just call
great reporters that you have
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heard of.
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You have to call people that you
know you can work with who are
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excellent reporters, but
also people that you can trust.
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We had been getting to
know the team at McClatchy,
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and they ticked every box.
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They really wanted
to work as a team.
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KEVIN: Who's surprised that
bad guys hide their money?
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You know, nobody was
saying that was the surprise.
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The surprise is, yeah, you pull
this veil back and you see this
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is how they do it.
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Everything you
thought was happening,
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here's the evidence.
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It is.
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Yeah, because of...
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I'm a former South America
Bureau Chief for the company,
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and Mossack Fonseca
is a Latin company,
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Latin clients, and so it was
an area that I could help with.
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I grew up in-in
Ecuador as a child.
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I grew up a little different
than most Americans because I
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saw the poverty, I saw kids with
no legs begging in front of the
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soccer stadium on Saturdays, and
so you know this different world
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exists, but to have it so
spelled out clearly where you
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can see.
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You can start to see
these connections,
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and then the rest of it
is kind of the legwork.
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Okay, you know they
have an offshore account,
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so what?
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You know, what do
you do from there?
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What more can you
say about that?
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MARISA: Usually as
a, as a reporter,
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you have tips, you have some
kind of roadmap of where you
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want to go with a story.
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With this, we had
absolutely no roadmap.
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We weren't the
big guys, you know?
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We were the ones who tried to
break stories that the big guys
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didn't have.
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We were the, the
underdogs, to some degree.
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It was also something that
we had to kind of sell to our
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company at the time, because
they had decided that they were
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gonna shut their
foreign bureaus.
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They were
wondering what value,
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foreign news would
have to their readers.
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Why are people gonna care that
the rich don't pay their taxes
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and crooks are crooks?
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Everyone knows that.
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What he didn't understand is
that this was such an enormous
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amount of data, it
was revealing a,
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a whole world.
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It wasn't just a
story about offshores;
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It was, it was the goods.
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We had the goods
on how it worked.
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JÓHANNES: I'm a
nerd about journalism.
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I had been a
journalist for over 15 years,
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and I look at myself as a
person that wants to be the
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pipeline for minority
groups to publish their story,
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to ask questions inside the
government and find answers for
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those groups.
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JÓHANNES: I got a
call from Marina Walker,
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the Deputy Director of ICIJ.
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She asked me, do-do you
want to work on a leak?
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And we have a lot of
Icelandic names in the leak.
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And we have your prime
minister there and his wife.
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And at that moment, uh,
everything froze in front of me.
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I thought to myself, wow, this
is going to be a bomb here
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in Iceland.
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Nobody knew about his
offshore company called Wintris.
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If you Googled Wintris
before the Panama Papers,
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you couldn't find anything, and
the prime minister hadn't been
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transparent about his
involvement into the
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offshore world.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's a
pleasure for me to be here today
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at Iceland Investment Forum.
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It takes time for any given
country to resurface from
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political turmoil after a
large-scale economic crisis.
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We've already made
significant progress,
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and I'm convinced that the
policy this government has put
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forward is a sound one, and that
is what bring further benefits.
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I have to admit that when
you hear the prime minister is
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involved, his wife
and other big business,
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people in Iceland
very powerful people,
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then you start to think
about what will happen?
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Hope to see you and
your money in Iceland.
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GERARD: At this point,
we continue on to London,
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and I met with The Guardian,
because I knew if they were
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involved that it'd be easier to
convince other media partners to
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get involved.
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LUKE: This was a
really important leak.
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I think, I think we've had three
super leaks this century so far.
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We have Wikileaks where we
got the kind of unmediated view
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of the most
powerful country on Earth,
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the United States.
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NEWS REPORTER 14: The
biggest leak of U.S.
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military secrets ever.
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Website Wikileaks hit the
"send" button on some 400,000
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sensitive
documents about the Iraq war.
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LUKE: Then we had
Snowden who came along,
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who proved that all of our data
is being collected all the time,
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that we're being surveilled.
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I, sitting at my desk, uh,
certainly had the authorities
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to wiretap anyone from you
or your accountant to a federal
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judge to even the President,
if I had a personal email.
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LUKE: He sort of lifted what I
would call mass surveillance.
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And then we had
the Panama Papers.
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We had emails, uh, between the
law firm and what they called
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their clients, which typically
meant other intermediaries,
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banks, lawyers,
accountants all over the world.
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We had passport scans and we had
kind of incorporation documents,
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we had a lot of postage
stamps from these very
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exotic locations.
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Pretty much all of it was set up
so that no one can kind of
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peer inside.
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And, and suddenly, we had a
kind of treasure trove of stuff.
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I've been on The
Guardian for about 20 years.
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12 years as a foreign
correspondent bouncing around
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the world:
Afghanistan, Iraq, Berlin,
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and then I was
placed into Moscow,
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where I kind of really plunged
into what you might call kind of
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post-Soviet muck.
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Corruption,
espionage, Vladimir Putin,
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his money,
question mark, and so on.
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JULIETTE: You're
not just going in,
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going oh, look, you know, here's
the whole story in black and
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white for me.
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It's a lot of
detective work, of,
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of painstaking piecing together.
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You don't just dump stuff.
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You find the narratives, you
make them matter to people.
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I joined The Guardian in
2011 as telecoms correspondent,
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and, because I speak French, I
was pulled into an investigation
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into HSBC Bank, and
its Swiss operation,
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which was the first ICIJ
investigation that I'd
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worked on.
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NEWS REPORTER 15: The massive
investigation by media outlets
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including France's Le Monde and
Britain's Guardian Newspaper.
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They've revealed that HSBC Swiss
private banking arm has helped
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thousands of wealthy
clients to evade tax.
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JULIETTE: It was a
big story over here,
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and then I, I got brought in to
do the Panama Papers a few month
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after that.
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MATTHEW: I knew that there were
companies in Malta that were
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using Mossack Fonseca to set up
companies in Panama for their
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clients, but what I never
imagined was that I would find
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the name of a
cabinet minister in there.
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There were three
companies that were set up.
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The names of Konrad Mizzi
and of Konrad Mizzi's wife,
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Sai Mizzi, and Konrad
Mizzi's children appeared in
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the documentation.
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There were never any names given
for the third company, Egrant.
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My mother, through a
different sources,
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one of who worked in a bank
where documentation related to
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this third company was kept,
worked out that the shares were
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being held in the name of
the Prime Minister's wife,
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Michelle Muscat.
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I think that's when we realized
that what we were dealing with
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in Malta was a
system of state capture,
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that every institution of the
state has been captured by
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this gang.
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They're laundering money,
they're laundering campaign
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funding, and they're going to
go to prison for a long time.
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I was sure of that at the time.
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WOMAN 1: This is all about
secrecy and the ability to hide
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your money, your assets.
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LUKE: The rich
and the super-rich,
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together with most sort of
multi-national corporations,
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essentially exited quietly, sort
of slipped off stage from the
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messy business of-of-of
universal taxation some
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time ago.
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Before I started work
on the Panama Papers,
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I thought that
offshore was a kind of small,
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minor, who cares, you know,
little aspect of the economic
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system we knew
not so much about,
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and after reading
the Panama Papers,
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I realized it is
the economic system.
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It is the system.
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Eight trillion dollars
is stuffed in tax havens,
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western countries,
including the U.S.,
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are losing about 200 billion
dollars a year in tax revenues.
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PAUL: We were still
debating, at that time,
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whether tax avoidance was a
matter of public interest or
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not, or could you simply do
what you liked with your money?
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But what it did
establish for us,
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the scale of it, it just showed
you there were underground
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rivers of money washing around
the globe unbeknownst to
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most people.
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MARINA: We are writing about an
incredibly damaging part of our
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economy that has become so
central and so mainstream that
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it's creating French revolution
levels of inequality
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and injustice.
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And the challenge we have is to
be able to bring this story home
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to people, to show them that
this story matters to you,
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affects your
life, and guess what?
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You are the
victim in this story.
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JOHN: Decisions have
been made that
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have spared the wealthy,
while focusing instead on
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reining in middle and
low-income citizens.
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The collective impact of these
failures has been a complete
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erosion of ethical standards,
ultimately leading to a novel
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system we still call capitalism,
but which is tantamount to
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economic slavery.
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Hopelessly backward and
inefficient courts have failed.
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Judges have too often acquiesced
to the arguments of the rich
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whose lawyers, and not
just Mossack Fonseca,
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are well-trained in honoring
the letter of the law while
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simultaneously doing everything
in their power to desecrate
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its spirit.
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BEN ON PHONE: Leave your number,
and I will get back to you as
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soon as I can.
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Thank you very much.
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KEVIN: Ben, hey, it's Kevin.
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Since we have
outstanding matters,
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give me a shout back.
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Bye.
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One of the things that is
particularly interesting about
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the Panama Papers is you
have all the email traffic,
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all these different people who
appear in these email threads
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going back and forth on
how to handle something.
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You see their personalities
and who in the Compliance
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Department, who is more serious
about really cracking down and
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the tension between
management and compliance.
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So at one point, the
Geneva office basically says,
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you know, they-they found that
you've got a Syrian tied to a,
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to Bashar Al-Assad whose now
under sanction and everything at
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the time of these emails,
and the Geneva office says,
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well, HSBC's still working
with him so I don't see why
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we shouldn't.
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You know, so you kinda
see what their thinking is.
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You know, they're willing
to work with bad money,
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they just have to
be clean about it.
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JACK: The customer said, I need
to do the following in terms of
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hiding money.
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Will you do it for me?
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And Mossack Fonseca,
these are all on the records,
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would say sure, we'll give
you a Panamanian corporation,
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a trust a bank
account somewhere else,
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and not to worry.
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Nobody will follow the trail.
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So simplified, it would explain
how the system works in a really
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understandable way.
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I worked on a case involving a
drug trafficker in the
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Cayman Islands.
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His lawyer in Miami said, go see
Joe Blow in the Cayman Islands
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and he'll set you up.
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AL: We got
everything a man could want.
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JACK: Joe Blow in the Cayman
Islands sets up a corporation,
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the corporation
opens a bank account.
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The guy who is the drug
trafficker now puts money in the
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bank account and lets the lawyer
in Cayman control that
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bank account.
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There comes a moment
six months later...
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ACTOR 1:
You took out the money.
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AL: Yeah.
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JACK: He wants to move the
money to hide the trail,
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and he calls the
lawyer and says,
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well, we need another bank
account in the name of another
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corporation, and I want
to transfer the money from
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Corporation A to Corporation B,
and let's do it so the amounts
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don't match.
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And then, the moment
comes when he says,
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I want to use the money, and
he goes back for the lawyer in
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Cayman and he says, we're
gonna have the bank that has the
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second transfer lend the money
to the guy's brother who owns a,
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massage parlor in Houston.
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That way, it'll
look like a loan, non-taxable.
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Where did you get it?
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I borrowed it.
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The whole thing looks
like it's perfectly clean
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and perfectly okay.
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BASTIAN: Hey, how you doing?
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I was kind of skeptical because
I wasn't a big fan of inviting
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so many colleagues.
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I thought, you know, maybe
50 or 100 really enough,
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and we knew around 50 or 100
from previous investigations,
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so we trusted them.
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JOURNALIST: Do they know
that you got the data?
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Or that it's out there
available for someone?
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FREDERIK: I wondered if we could
keep this whole project secret.
484
00:28:28,090 --> 00:28:31,230
There's one basic rule,
and that might sound rude,
485
00:28:32,010 --> 00:28:32,230
but it's important.
486
00:28:33,010 --> 00:28:35,050
That's shut up and encrypt.
487
00:28:35,070 --> 00:28:39,050
We always told our colleagues
that you cannot tell anyone.
488
00:28:39,070 --> 00:28:41,150
Not your wife, not
your best friend,
489
00:28:41,170 --> 00:28:45,040
nobody, about this project, and
you have to encrypt everything.
490
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,020
GERARD: You know, my primary
interest at this-this stage of
491
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,100
the investigation was to
establish public interest.
492
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,110
So we only were
interested in public figures.
493
00:28:56,130 --> 00:28:59,070
You know,
politicians, businesspeople,
494
00:28:59,090 --> 00:29:00,230
anyone with a public profile.
495
00:29:01,010 --> 00:29:06,000
And you know, the fastest way to
find that out is to give a set
496
00:29:06,020 --> 00:29:08,060
of documents from Indonesia
to an Indonesian journalist.
497
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,220
Give a set of documents
from Iceland to an
498
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,130
Icelandic journalist.
499
00:29:12,150 --> 00:29:14,170
They would identify pretty
quickly who was worth looking at
500
00:29:14,190 --> 00:29:16,140
on this list and who
wasn't worth looking at.
501
00:29:26,060 --> 00:29:28,040
JOSEPH: I was angry that I had,
nobody had called me,
502
00:29:28,060 --> 00:29:30,040
and I wasn't, I wasn't
involved.
503
00:29:30,060 --> 00:29:33,030
You know, I have never
collaborated in a giant thing
504
00:29:33,050 --> 00:29:34,040
like that.
505
00:29:34,060 --> 00:29:36,120
I collaborate
within my newsroom,
506
00:29:36,140 --> 00:29:39,040
sometimes with,
like, one, you know,
507
00:29:39,060 --> 00:29:40,010
an outside group.
508
00:29:40,030 --> 00:29:42,160
Most news
organizations are not global,
509
00:29:42,180 --> 00:29:44,160
and then I think this becomes
much more important because it
510
00:29:44,180 --> 00:29:47,190
seems like more and more,
the best stories are global.
511
00:29:47,210 --> 00:29:49,200
This was like a ringing
affirmation that you can
512
00:29:49,220 --> 00:29:51,150
actually do it, uh, and
you can do it at-at scale.
513
00:29:59,070 --> 00:30:02,160
Then the ICIJ said, for example,
we need somebody in Panama.
514
00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:07,080
And I said, I don't
trust anybody in Panama.
515
00:30:34,230 --> 00:30:35,170
RITA: When I first looked
at the assignment
516
00:30:35,190 --> 00:30:38,220
that we
were going to do, I flipped.
517
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,210
And the first document I
saw, it was an invoice.
518
00:30:40,230 --> 00:30:42,180
That's when I said, oh, my god.
519
00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,190
This is huge, because invoices
are probably one of the most,
520
00:30:46,210 --> 00:30:50,180
private
documents within a law firm,
521
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,000
and then when I see the names of
people I know in the database,
522
00:30:54,020 --> 00:30:58,190
you know, I was really, really,
really scared because I knew
523
00:30:58,210 --> 00:31:02,100
what was coming behind that,
and I knew the consequences that
524
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,000
this was going to have.
525
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,210
WOMAN 2: Rita Vasquez was also a
lawyer in the offshore services
526
00:31:08,230 --> 00:31:12,150
industry for many years,
so when we learned that,
527
00:31:12,170 --> 00:31:14,100
we were fascinated.
528
00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:18,140
We had the opportunity to work
with an insider who understands
529
00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:22,100
this industry from within.
530
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,120
RITA: Seeing my friends and
people that I care for in that
531
00:31:25,140 --> 00:31:28,110
data really made me wanted to
go deeper into the project.
532
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,110
As a newspaper organization,
it is not our duty to tell if a
533
00:31:35,130 --> 00:31:37,110
private person is doing
something wrong with their own
534
00:31:37,130 --> 00:31:40,140
money, but it's our duty to tell
if somebody who had access to
535
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,110
public funds or if
somebody who had,
536
00:31:43,130 --> 00:31:46,030
be part of a government or had
some sort of a jurisdictional
537
00:31:46,050 --> 00:31:49,060
power was doing something wrong.
538
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,170
ROBERTO: The mandate of La
Prensa was to return freedom of
539
00:31:57,190 --> 00:32:03,110
expression to the country as an
infrastructure for democracy.
540
00:32:03,130 --> 00:32:05,060
In the midst of dictatorship.
541
00:32:20,020 --> 00:32:22,090
ROBERTO: But somehow it
worked, and in six months,
542
00:32:22,110 --> 00:32:25,150
we were the newspaper
of record of Panama.
543
00:32:25,170 --> 00:32:28,130
When we sat at our first
editorial meeting after
544
00:32:28,150 --> 00:32:30,160
everything was set
up, we said, well,
545
00:32:30,180 --> 00:32:32,070
how are we gonna handle this?
546
00:32:32,090 --> 00:32:36,170
Do we go softly increasing
our pressure or do we hit 'em
547
00:32:36,190 --> 00:32:39,080
straight in the
face from day one?
548
00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:40,110
We decided the second.
549
00:32:48,190 --> 00:32:50,160
SCOTT: When we
heard Mossack Fonseca,
550
00:32:50,180 --> 00:32:54,010
we knew that we were uniquely
positioned within the project
551
00:32:54,030 --> 00:32:56,130
because I played for the Mossack
Fonseca softball team in
552
00:32:56,150 --> 00:32:58,050
the BVI.
553
00:32:58,070 --> 00:33:02,170
Four of our closest friends
worked for Mossack Fonseca.
554
00:33:02,190 --> 00:33:05,170
And so we had a perspective
that out of the journalists,
555
00:33:05,190 --> 00:33:09,060
there were two people that
knew the inner workings of that
556
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,050
company better than anybody.
557
00:33:12,230 --> 00:33:16,050
My journalism career was never
going to lead to any kind
558
00:33:16,070 --> 00:33:17,130
of greatness.
559
00:33:17,150 --> 00:33:19,090
I was never gonna work
for the New York Times.
560
00:33:19,110 --> 00:33:21,090
You know, I was the English
editor of La Prensa in Panama.
561
00:33:21,110 --> 00:33:24,120
That's not the sort of
things that make a great bio,
562
00:33:24,140 --> 00:33:27,140
and I always compared it to a
career minor league pitcher that
563
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:32,070
suddenly you get to start
game seven of the World Series.
564
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:33,220
When you find out
it's world leaders,
565
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:35,090
it's drug traffickers.
566
00:33:35,110 --> 00:33:38,150
la Reina Del Sur, who is
one of the most famous female
567
00:33:38,170 --> 00:33:41,210
narco-terrorists in
history; Carlos Quintero,
568
00:33:41,230 --> 00:33:46,090
who is described as making
Pablo Escobar look like a baby.
569
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,130
All of these names that
come flooding at you,
570
00:33:50,150 --> 00:33:55,070
and you, your first thought is,
how did they get away with this?
571
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,200
BASTIAN: At least
that's my assumption.
572
00:34:35,220 --> 00:34:42,070
I mean, we've been working on
offshore since, for 2012.
573
00:34:43,170 --> 00:34:46,040
My private
explanation, more or less,
574
00:34:46,060 --> 00:34:51,000
is that I know that the source
had contact with other outlets,
575
00:34:51,020 --> 00:34:55,120
even before me, and they had
not reacted in the way that the
576
00:34:55,140 --> 00:34:58,030
leaker wished they had.
577
00:34:58,180 --> 00:35:00,200
JOSEPH: Some outlets may have
passed just because they tend
578
00:35:00,220 --> 00:35:02,230
not to do giant collaborations.
579
00:35:03,010 --> 00:35:05,080
You're devoting some of your
best people to something that
580
00:35:05,100 --> 00:35:06,130
might take a year.
581
00:35:06,150 --> 00:35:08,040
That, resources are scarce.
582
00:35:08,060 --> 00:35:11,160
Investigative talent on
your payroll is-is scarce,
583
00:35:11,180 --> 00:35:14,090
it's expensive, and you're,
you're taking a leap into
584
00:35:14,110 --> 00:35:16,170
something that,
from the beginning,
585
00:35:16,190 --> 00:35:18,150
you know is not
gonna be an exclusive.
586
00:35:21,180 --> 00:35:23,000
JOHN: The media has failed.
587
00:35:23,020 --> 00:35:26,030
In addition to
Süddeutsche Zeitung and ICIJ,
588
00:35:26,050 --> 00:35:29,010
and despite explicit
claims to the contrary,
589
00:35:29,030 --> 00:35:32,130
several major media outlets did
have editors review documents
590
00:35:32,150 --> 00:35:34,010
for the Panama Papers.
591
00:35:34,030 --> 00:35:36,120
They chose not to cover them.
592
00:35:39,070 --> 00:35:43,170
BASTIAN: There's this probably
frustrated person or those
593
00:35:43,190 --> 00:35:49,210
persons, we don't know,
trying to reach someone that is
594
00:35:49,230 --> 00:35:51,130
actually listening.
595
00:35:51,150 --> 00:35:53,170
LUKE: I mean, there was a flavor
of John Doe's personality.
596
00:35:53,190 --> 00:35:56,010
John Doe was
worried about exposure.
597
00:35:56,030 --> 00:35:57,220
He was also kind of worried
about his own sort of personal
598
00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:59,130
safety, so we
don't know who it is.
599
00:35:59,150 --> 00:36:01,000
It could be a he,
it could be a she.
600
00:36:01,020 --> 00:36:02,050
I don't think it's a they.
601
00:36:02,070 --> 00:36:05,000
KEVIN: I don't
think anyone benefits,
602
00:36:05,020 --> 00:36:06,210
you know, it's kind of death by
a thousand cuts if you give a
603
00:36:06,230 --> 00:36:08,210
little information here, a
little information there,
604
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,220
you end up
compromising your source,
605
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,020
and so I've kind of
pushed back internally,
606
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,110
I think, on that, so that
people are more cautious about
607
00:36:16,130 --> 00:36:18,030
what they say about the source.
608
00:36:18,050 --> 00:36:20,100
JOSEPH: There are lots of good
reasons for sources to be afraid
609
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,140
of talking to the press.
610
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,020
It can be
an enormous risk.
611
00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:26,020
You know,
they can get fired,
612
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:27,230
they can get
jailed in some places,
613
00:36:28,010 --> 00:36:29,140
they can get killed.
614
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,060
And so, but one of those
reasons is they don't trust the
615
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:33,070
operational security of the
journalist,
616
00:36:33,090 --> 00:36:36,060
and sometimes they're right
to be very worried about that,
617
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,060
and they should, you know,
if you're a source out there,
618
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,160
you should do your due
diligence and pick your
619
00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:41,140
journalist carefully.
620
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:45,010
JOHN: I've watched
as one after another,
621
00:36:45,030 --> 00:36:48,140
whistleblowers and activists
in the United States and Europe
622
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,160
have had their lives destroyed,
and the circumstances they find
623
00:36:51,180 --> 00:36:54,150
themselves in after shining a
light on obvious wrongdoing.
624
00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:57,220
NEWS REPORTER 16: Snowden,
who was holed up in Hong Kong,
625
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,130
wanted in the U.S.,
is now in Russia.
626
00:37:00,150 --> 00:37:02,160
JOHN: Edward Snowden
is stranded in Moscow,
627
00:37:02,180 --> 00:37:05,150
exiled due to the Obama
Administration's decision to
628
00:37:05,170 --> 00:37:08,040
prosecute him under
the Espionage Act.
629
00:37:08,060 --> 00:37:11,040
Bradley Birkenfeld was awarded
millions for his information
630
00:37:11,060 --> 00:37:14,190
concerning Swiss bank UBS,
and was still given a prison
631
00:37:14,210 --> 00:37:16,220
sentence by the
Justice Department.
632
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,230
Legitimate whistleblowers
who expose unquestionable
633
00:37:20,010 --> 00:37:22,200
wrongdoing, whether
insiders or outsiders,
634
00:37:22,220 --> 00:37:25,020
deserve immunity from
government retribution.
635
00:37:34,180 --> 00:37:37,190
WOMAN 3: Because of its
nature, of how global it was,
636
00:37:37,210 --> 00:37:41,130
we all realized that we need
to get together in person,
637
00:37:41,150 --> 00:37:44,010
so Munich was the
perfect place, of course,
638
00:37:44,030 --> 00:37:48,100
because we needed to go to the
home of Süddeutsche Zeitung.
639
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,090
KEVIN: That, itself,
had to stay secret,
640
00:37:50,110 --> 00:37:53,150
so you couldn't say,
"I'm in Munich for X."
641
00:37:53,170 --> 00:37:55,120
People will naturally
ask, well, you know,
642
00:37:55,140 --> 00:37:56,190
what, what are you doing there?
643
00:37:56,210 --> 00:37:57,220
Oh, work meeting or, uh, you had
to come up with something that
644
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,040
didn't sound anything like
what you were doing there.
645
00:38:09,050 --> 00:38:15,000
BASTIAN: The meeting was
kind of the decisive point.
646
00:38:15,020 --> 00:38:19,010
it was more or less our job to
make people enthusiastic about
647
00:38:19,030 --> 00:38:20,160
it and to get them on board.
648
00:38:24,070 --> 00:38:25,050
BASTIAN: I was so nervous.
649
00:38:25,070 --> 00:38:26,110
I hadn't slept for three
nights because it was,
650
00:38:26,130 --> 00:38:29,200
I mean, I was really, really
nervous because I thought if I
651
00:38:29,220 --> 00:38:33,150
mess this up, you know,
then this is the big,
652
00:38:33,170 --> 00:38:34,200
the big chance.
653
00:38:34,220 --> 00:38:37,010
The biggest collaboration of
investigative journalists...
654
00:38:37,030 --> 00:38:41,010
Sitting in front of more than a
hundred journalists showed me
655
00:38:41,030 --> 00:38:44,130
the first time how big this
project already was at
656
00:38:44,150 --> 00:38:47,070
that moment.
657
00:38:48,030 --> 00:38:49,010
JULIETTE: It was like the
United Nations of journalism,
658
00:38:49,030 --> 00:38:51,180
and I've never
experienced anything like it.
659
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,210
We were working on a story,
and we were all working on
660
00:38:53,230 --> 00:38:54,220
it together.
661
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:56,220
EMILIA: Sorry, well, I'm Emilia.
662
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:57,220
I'm from Venezuela.
663
00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,130
I think...
664
00:38:59,150 --> 00:39:02,170
MARINA: We are not, uh,
forcing you to do this story.
665
00:39:02,190 --> 00:39:05,020
We are not paying
you to do this story.
666
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,070
This is the story, and
you need to invest in it,
667
00:39:08,090 --> 00:39:11,100
and you are only going to get
out of it as much as you put
668
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,170
into it.
669
00:39:13,190 --> 00:39:16,010
BASTIAN: Everybody
was, I'm all in.
670
00:39:16,030 --> 00:39:18,100
I want to know more.
671
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:30,020
WOMAN 3: It's a time right
now in newsrooms of
672
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:31,100
great uncertainty.
673
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,210
You know, what will be
the fate of newspapers,
674
00:39:33,230 --> 00:39:39,000
which used to be the
watchdogs of the media.
675
00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,020
LUKE: In a time when
everyone is broke,
676
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,190
when no one's clicking the ads,
where Facebook is taking all our
677
00:39:45,210 --> 00:39:48,150
money, where, where
newsrooms are-are just kind of
678
00:39:48,170 --> 00:39:52,030
empty-pocketed...
679
00:39:52,050 --> 00:39:54,100
MARINA: We really had
to convince these media
680
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,190
organizations and these
journalists to work together,
681
00:39:56,210 --> 00:39:59,100
and we often got responses
like, why do we need you?
682
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,000
Or why do we need one another?
683
00:40:01,020 --> 00:40:02,160
We can do it on our own.
684
00:40:02,180 --> 00:40:07,190
And perhaps 10, 15 years ago, it
was pre-media crisis and a lot
685
00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:11,070
of newspapers were
feeling really strong still,
686
00:40:11,090 --> 00:40:14,090
and they still had foreign
correspondents and thought that
687
00:40:14,110 --> 00:40:18,060
they could do it on their own,
but as the crisis in the media
688
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:21,200
took place, and
stories became more complex,
689
00:40:21,220 --> 00:40:27,030
as technology evolved, it became
obvious that we needed to join
690
00:40:27,050 --> 00:40:31,030
forces, and they learned through
the process how much more
691
00:40:31,050 --> 00:40:36,030
impactful and powerful their
reporting can become when we
692
00:40:36,050 --> 00:40:39,160
work as a collective.
693
00:40:41,060 --> 00:40:44,050
BASTIAN: We immediately realized
the impact of having more people
694
00:40:44,070 --> 00:40:49,030
from different countries inside
the investigation because we had
695
00:40:49,050 --> 00:40:51,110
more, more, more findings.
696
00:40:51,130 --> 00:40:53,200
LUKE: Generally, I would
say we found the anonymous
697
00:40:53,220 --> 00:40:55,150
international rich.
698
00:40:55,170 --> 00:40:59,040
We, we found Spanish royals, we
found a German chicken farmer,
699
00:40:59,060 --> 00:41:02,070
we found a French dentist,
we found people who would,
700
00:41:02,090 --> 00:41:04,050
use fake names when
dealing with their lawyers,
701
00:41:04,070 --> 00:41:06,050
so instead of saying,
you know, you know,
702
00:41:06,070 --> 00:41:08,210
hello, here is Ivan,
you know, they would say,
703
00:41:08,230 --> 00:41:10,060
"Hi, it's Harry Potter."
704
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,060
And, and there
was correspondents,
705
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,170
you know, dear
Harry, your $25,000
706
00:41:15,190 --> 00:41:17,090
has arrived in the Bahamas.
707
00:41:17,110 --> 00:41:19,040
I mean, it was just like the wo-
most weird fishing expedition.
708
00:41:19,060 --> 00:41:21,060
I mean, there were
fish you would expect,
709
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:23,050
and there was some very ugly,
small fish you didn't expect.
710
00:41:23,070 --> 00:41:25,010
BASTIAN: Whenever I
went into the data,
711
00:41:25,030 --> 00:41:26,080
I found something new.
712
00:41:26,100 --> 00:41:29,010
I found scandals
in Africa, in Latin America.
713
00:41:32,150 --> 00:41:34,010
SPORTS ANNOUNCER: Messi now,
everyone on the edge of their
714
00:41:34,030 --> 00:41:36,080
seats, Messi going for goal!
715
00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:37,090
Oh!
716
00:41:39,060 --> 00:41:40,130
SPORTS ANNOUNCER:
He's a man on a mission!
717
00:41:40,150 --> 00:41:42,210
MAN 2: Lionel Messi, his
family fortune,
718
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,140
is in the Panama Papers,
and is now in the courts.
719
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:49,020
No one in their right mind in
Latin America thought that FIFA
720
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,150
wasn't corrupt.
721
00:41:52,150 --> 00:41:54,100
It was not a surprise to
find the FIFA officials.
722
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:58,050
That was kind of one of, people
thought was gonna be in there.
723
00:41:58,070 --> 00:42:00,100
Kids are under
contract, 13 or 14,
724
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,230
whether or not they ever become
a pro has very little to do with
725
00:42:04,010 --> 00:42:06,200
their talent level, and more to
do with which lawyer is screwing
726
00:42:06,220 --> 00:42:08,110
what agent in a business deal.
727
00:42:08,130 --> 00:42:11,110
In Lionel Messi, there's no
evidence that he himself had any
728
00:42:11,130 --> 00:42:14,100
hand in any of this, but the
people who handle him and the
729
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,070
whole contracts and
everything, they did.
730
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,090
GIANNI: And we will restore the
image of FIFA and the respect of
731
00:42:22,110 --> 00:42:25,110
FIFA, and everyone in the world
will applaud us and will applaud
732
00:42:25,130 --> 00:42:30,080
all of you for what we'll
do in FIFA in the future.
733
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,070
LUKE: We found Sergey
Roldugin, Putin's best friend,
734
00:42:40,090 --> 00:42:43,080
ostensibly, second-hand
car, not very wealthy,
735
00:42:43,100 --> 00:42:45,150
but we found almost
a billion dollars.
736
00:42:45,170 --> 00:42:48,160
It came from Bank Rossiya, which
is a kind of crony bank from the
737
00:42:48,180 --> 00:42:53,060
regime in Saint Petersburg,
right through to secret offshore
738
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:56,060
companies, and then a lot of
that cash was recycled back into
739
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,230
Russia, including, um, into
the wedding resort where Putin's
740
00:43:00,010 --> 00:43:02,100
daughter, Caterina,
got married in 2013.
741
00:43:02,120 --> 00:43:05,060
And so from
Russia, what we saw was,
742
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,110
in a way, what you might call
a kind of neo-feudal system.
743
00:43:07,130 --> 00:43:11,030
You could see how not
just Putin's KGB chums were
744
00:43:11,050 --> 00:43:14,120
billionaires, but how the next
generation were accumulating
745
00:43:14,140 --> 00:43:18,040
assets, marrying each other,
dodging American sanctions and
746
00:43:18,060 --> 00:43:19,120
so on.
747
00:43:19,140 --> 00:43:21,080
BASTIAN: I mean, if
you're Vladimir Putin,
748
00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:23,070
you don't go to
Mossack Fonseca and say,
749
00:43:23,090 --> 00:43:24,160
"I want a company in my name."
750
00:43:24,180 --> 00:43:27,030
But you'd probably send
someone that you trust.
751
00:43:27,050 --> 00:43:29,120
And this is exactly
how this world works.
752
00:43:29,140 --> 00:43:36,040
TIM: When you can set up
corporations in such a complex
753
00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:39,000
way and changing ownership.
754
00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:41,110
One woman I looked
into was Leticia Montoya,
755
00:43:41,130 --> 00:43:45,170
a director in
10,969 corporations.
756
00:43:49,150 --> 00:43:52,040
Think about that.
757
00:43:52,060 --> 00:43:55,060
I mean, she doesn't, has no
idea whatsoever what those
758
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:56,050
corporations do.
759
00:44:07,010 --> 00:44:08,050
RITA: It's just a job,
and she's a secretary.
760
00:44:08,070 --> 00:44:12,090
She, I mean, those who went to
her house could have seen that
761
00:44:12,110 --> 00:44:16,010
she has no money, she lives
in a fisherman community,
762
00:44:16,030 --> 00:44:17,130
not in the city.
763
00:44:17,150 --> 00:44:20,130
I mean, it's not like she
made any money on this.
764
00:44:23,150 --> 00:44:27,140
JACK: This has gone on country
after country after country.
765
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:32,020
The amounts that are being
pulled out are really at the
766
00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:37,050
expense of average people who
simply can't get services from
767
00:44:37,070 --> 00:44:40,050
their government because
the money's been flat stolen.
768
00:44:45,050 --> 00:44:48,180
JACK: I spoke at a conference
to the Inter-American Bar
769
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:52,030
Association in
Cochabamba, Bolivia,
770
00:44:52,050 --> 00:44:57,110
and I tried to say, lawyers
job is to keep people honest,
771
00:44:57,130 --> 00:45:01,140
and you shouldn't be helping
them evade the law or break
772
00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:02,230
the law.
773
00:45:03,010 --> 00:45:05,220
My audience began
to laugh at me.
774
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,020
I blew up.
775
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:11,010
Why do you think you
don't have clean water?
776
00:45:11,030 --> 00:45:13,070
Why do you think
people are so poor?
777
00:45:13,090 --> 00:45:17,140
It's because you, as a
group of professionals,
778
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:22,040
are teaching people how not to
be participants in your society.
779
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,160
SCOTT: The
fundamental question I ask is,
780
00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:28,230
well, who makes money off this?
781
00:45:29,010 --> 00:45:31,050
Who makes money
off this industry?
782
00:45:31,070 --> 00:45:34,040
And obviously, Mossack
Fonseca made a lot of money,
783
00:45:34,060 --> 00:45:36,150
and obviously their
clients who avoid taxes,
784
00:45:36,170 --> 00:45:40,000
they make a lot of money, but
banks also make a lot of money,
785
00:45:40,020 --> 00:45:42,140
financial
institutions, Wall Street.
786
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:46,060
You can't have a major
business if you don't have banks
787
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,060
complicit with your business.
788
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:52,040
TIM: The banks are certainly a
key cog in this whole mechanism
789
00:45:52,060 --> 00:45:55,110
set up to create distance
between the real owners of the
790
00:45:55,130 --> 00:45:58,040
money and-and-and the
corporations that nominally,
791
00:45:58,060 --> 00:46:02,080
have control over it,
but banks donate a lot to
792
00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:06,140
politicians, and uh,
you know,
793
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,040
there you go.
794
00:46:08,060 --> 00:46:11,200
WOMAN 4: The banks and the
accounting firms and the law
795
00:46:11,220 --> 00:46:15,150
firms, they are basically
spending all of their resources
796
00:46:15,170 --> 00:46:21,040
in trying to damage national
treasuries in creating an
797
00:46:21,060 --> 00:46:26,040
illusion of-of an economic
system that works only for the
798
00:46:26,060 --> 00:46:31,160
1%, and they are working to
deepen that gap between the 1%
799
00:46:31,180 --> 00:46:34,040
and the rest of the world.
800
00:46:53,190 --> 00:46:55,050
WOMAN 4: We found David
Cameron's dad in the data with
801
00:46:55,070 --> 00:46:57,120
his offshore fund.
802
00:46:59,060 --> 00:47:00,010
DAVID: I'm
very relaxed about,
803
00:47:00,030 --> 00:47:01,040
publishing these things.
804
00:47:01,060 --> 00:47:04,120
There's no secrets
about my status.
805
00:47:04,140 --> 00:47:08,040
I am paid handsomely
as your Prime Minister,
806
00:47:08,060 --> 00:47:10,050
and that is my
main source of income,
807
00:47:10,070 --> 00:47:13,150
and I have a house I used to
live in before I moved into
808
00:47:13,170 --> 00:47:16,000
Downing Street, and I rent that
out and I get the income
809
00:47:16,020 --> 00:47:17,030
from that.
810
00:47:17,050 --> 00:47:18,070
I don't have other
sources of income,
811
00:47:18,090 --> 00:47:19,210
so there will be
no surprises,
812
00:47:19,230 --> 00:47:22,060
in terms of my tax
affairs, but I'm very relaxed,
813
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,010
as I've always said.
814
00:47:23,030 --> 00:47:24,160
Nothing's changed.
815
00:47:25,140 --> 00:47:26,020
JULIETTE: It wasn't even a
surprise that his dad had had
816
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:27,030
a fund.
817
00:47:27,050 --> 00:47:29,060
It's just that he
wouldn't say he had money in it.
818
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,200
In order to not have
the fund taxed in the UK,
819
00:47:31,220 --> 00:47:33,190
you had to have majority of
foreign directors on the company
820
00:47:33,210 --> 00:47:35,210
board, so the third
was Swiss, a third were,
821
00:47:35,230 --> 00:47:37,230
were in the Bahamas, and-and
everything was run out of the
822
00:47:38,010 --> 00:47:40,130
Bahamas, so they had this army
of people just assign things
823
00:47:40,150 --> 00:47:42,150
there, so they
were pretending to,
824
00:47:42,170 --> 00:47:45,230
devise the investment
strategy and trade gold and
825
00:47:46,010 --> 00:47:48,130
bonds and things like that, but
all the instructions were coming
826
00:47:48,150 --> 00:47:50,130
by telephone from London.
827
00:47:54,110 --> 00:47:55,160
MAN 2: One of the thing is we
found is not only did Mossack
828
00:47:55,180 --> 00:47:59,100
Fonseca have a number of Chinese
companies that it registered in
829
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,190
Nevada as shell
companies, some of those,
830
00:48:01,210 --> 00:48:03,190
perhaps, to do business
in the United States,
831
00:48:03,210 --> 00:48:08,090
but more likely than not, to
hide assets somewhere else.
832
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:11,110
MAN 3: Brazil was one of
the, the hottest things,
833
00:48:11,130 --> 00:48:13,120
and having been a
correspondent there myself,
834
00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:15,150
I was very interested in
working with the Brazilian team.
835
00:48:15,170 --> 00:48:19,080
TIM: We found
payoffs to politicians.
836
00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:22,140
More than $700 million
in bribes had been paid.
837
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,160
MAN 4: Two-thirds of the
country's legislature had been
838
00:48:25,180 --> 00:48:27,070
tied to off-shore companies.
839
00:48:27,090 --> 00:48:30,220
Many of the politicians were
using shell companies through
840
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,030
Mossack Fonseca in Nevada to
hide assets they owned back in,
841
00:48:34,050 --> 00:48:36,090
in Brazil.
842
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:38,140
Nobody pays a
bribe and says, hey,
843
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:39,190
here's a bribe.
844
00:48:39,210 --> 00:48:42,130
They do it through
consulting fees,
845
00:48:42,150 --> 00:48:44,150
they do it through
structured investments,
846
00:48:44,170 --> 00:48:45,170
and they do it through shell
companies that pay other
847
00:48:45,190 --> 00:48:46,180
shell companies.
848
00:48:50,110 --> 00:48:54,050
MAN 5: The papers were very
clear that this problem is not
849
00:48:54,070 --> 00:48:58,160
limited to small
countries in Africa.
850
00:48:58,180 --> 00:49:02,080
The problem is huge
here in the United States.
851
00:49:02,100 --> 00:49:07,080
The tax evasion problem is
huge here in the United States.
852
00:49:08,030 --> 00:49:09,120
KEVIN: There were a lot of
Americans in Panama Papers,
853
00:49:09,140 --> 00:49:11,190
so here's this
perception that there weren't.
854
00:49:11,210 --> 00:49:15,080
I think what was missing
was a Putin-type big name,
855
00:49:15,100 --> 00:49:18,200
but the very kind of people
you'd expect to be in the Panama
856
00:49:18,220 --> 00:49:20,110
Papers were in there.
857
00:49:20,130 --> 00:49:23,080
all kinds of SEC
fraud, pump and dump,
858
00:49:23,100 --> 00:49:25,160
penny stocks, and a
lot of hedge funds.
859
00:49:25,180 --> 00:49:29,130
Those kinda guys who need that
anonymity to make that work.
860
00:49:29,150 --> 00:49:32,110
Those guys are in here in
some significant numbers,
861
00:49:32,130 --> 00:49:34,100
and unfortunately,
that's gotten easier,
862
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,200
not harder in the
aftermath of Trump's election.
863
00:49:36,220 --> 00:49:43,090
DONALD: I am officially running
for President of the United
864
00:49:43,110 --> 00:49:49,110
States, and we are going to
make our country great again.
865
00:49:51,010 --> 00:49:54,020
BASTIAN: Having Donald Trump
as the President of the United
866
00:49:54,040 --> 00:50:00,080
States let me feel a little bit
strange knowing that he also had
867
00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:02,120
some offshore deals in his past.
868
00:50:02,140 --> 00:50:05,180
HILLARY: He didn't pay
any federal income tax, so--
869
00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:07,110
DONALD TRUMP:
That makes me smart.
870
00:50:07,130 --> 00:50:09,010
HILLARY CLINTON: --if he's paid
zero, that's zero for troops--
871
00:50:09,030 --> 00:50:10,060
MAN 3: Trump is obviously
one we were focused on from
872
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:11,220
the very beginning.
873
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:14,230
He appeared about
3,450 times that we know of.
874
00:50:15,010 --> 00:50:17,060
That's not to say his partners.
875
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:18,200
That's just him by name.
876
00:50:19,220 --> 00:50:21,230
The big find was a lot of
documents around the
877
00:50:22,010 --> 00:50:24,130
Panama Hotel project.
878
00:50:24,150 --> 00:50:26,180
NEWS REPORTER 17: Trump Ocean
Club soars over the Pacific and
879
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:28,140
Panama City.
880
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,170
It's also where criminals,
everywhere from Russian
881
00:50:31,190 --> 00:50:35,090
gangsters to money launderers
for Latin American drug cartels
882
00:50:35,110 --> 00:50:38,020
were able to hide their cash.
883
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:40,180
MAN 3: There we found contract
information between him and the
884
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,110
developer, Newland.
885
00:50:42,130 --> 00:50:44,150
One of the things I think that
was very helpful in the Panama
886
00:50:44,170 --> 00:50:47,150
Papers is it actually
showed Trump's business model.
887
00:50:47,170 --> 00:50:49,110
It was a contract that
showed how he got paid,
888
00:50:49,130 --> 00:50:50,230
how his name was leased.
889
00:50:51,010 --> 00:50:53,110
This really wasn't
known, and the documents,
890
00:50:53,130 --> 00:50:55,150
here we had
physical proof of how,
891
00:50:55,170 --> 00:50:57,150
you know, how he
arranges things.
892
00:50:57,170 --> 00:50:59,180
REPORTER 18: As a
former money launderer,
893
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,190
the Trump Ocean Club, how would
you rate it in its quality.
894
00:51:03,210 --> 00:51:04,190
MAN 4: For money laundering?
895
00:51:04,210 --> 00:51:08,180
MAN 4: Oh, I'd say triple A.
896
00:51:18,050 --> 00:51:20,140
JACK: You get
control of the country,
897
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:24,160
you move your family into all
of the important jobs in the
898
00:51:24,180 --> 00:51:28,160
country, and then you use
that as an opportunity to
899
00:51:28,180 --> 00:51:30,080
enrich yourself.
900
00:51:30,100 --> 00:51:31,200
NEWS REPORTER 18: The man
they credit with Donald Trump's
901
00:51:31,220 --> 00:51:33,160
victory, the President
Elect's own son-in-law,
902
00:51:33,180 --> 00:51:34,200
Jared Kushner.
903
00:51:34,220 --> 00:51:38,060
JACK: What's now
going on is exactly that,
904
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,230
and what I think is also going
on is that our president has
905
00:51:42,010 --> 00:51:46,150
cozied up to any number of these
kleptocrats because he wants
906
00:51:46,170 --> 00:51:49,230
Americans to think
it's the new normal.
907
00:51:52,220 --> 00:51:54,150
NEWS REPORTER 19: The central
figure in the investigations
908
00:51:54,170 --> 00:51:56,230
into Donald
Trump's inner circle,
909
00:51:57,010 --> 00:51:57,160
and possible ties to Russia.
910
00:51:57,180 --> 00:51:59,160
ADAM SCHIFF: It was Manafort...
911
00:51:59,180 --> 00:52:00,050
HIMES: Paul Manafort...
912
00:52:00,070 --> 00:52:02,000
CARSON: Paul Manafort...
913
00:52:02,020 --> 00:52:03,150
NEWS REPORTER 19: Long before he
was president Trump's campaign
914
00:52:03,170 --> 00:52:06,160
chairman, Paul Manafort was
paid millions by a Russian
915
00:52:06,180 --> 00:52:09,170
billionaire with close
ties to Vladimir Putin.
916
00:52:09,190 --> 00:52:13,130
MAN 3: That is the closest we've
been able to get to Manafort.
917
00:52:13,150 --> 00:52:17,130
Manafort seems to have been paid
through companies in Belize.
918
00:52:17,150 --> 00:52:21,220
I've spent a lot of time looking
at these shell companies.
919
00:52:22,110 --> 00:52:25,170
MAN 6: Donald Trump's
friends, people of his cabinet,
920
00:52:25,190 --> 00:52:30,120
advisors, have been active
in the offshore business.
921
00:52:31,070 --> 00:52:33,130
RON: Mister Mnuchin, you ran
a hedge fund for a few years
922
00:52:33,150 --> 00:52:39,200
starting in 2004, and I've been
trying to get my arms around the
923
00:52:39,220 --> 00:52:42,230
Mnuchin web of bank
accounts and shell companies.
924
00:52:43,010 --> 00:52:45,070
They were in Cayman
Islands and Anguilla.
925
00:52:45,090 --> 00:52:48,020
How many employees did
you have in Anguilla?
926
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:49,130
STEVEN: Treasury
Secretary Nominee
927
00:52:49,150 --> 00:52:53,180
we didn't have any
employees in Anguilla.
928
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:54,190
RON: How many
customers did you have there?
929
00:52:54,210 --> 00:52:55,220
STEVEN: We didn't have
any customers that resided
930
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:56,160
in Anguilla.
931
00:52:56,180 --> 00:52:59,020
RON: Did you have
an office there?
932
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,020
STEVEN: We did not have
a office ourselves there.
933
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,180
RON: So you just had
a post office box?
934
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:07,020
STEVEN: Senator, let
me explain to you, okay?
935
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:08,050
RON: It's just a
yes or no answer.
936
00:53:08,070 --> 00:53:09,110
I'm already over my time.
937
00:53:09,130 --> 00:53:10,040
Yes or no?
938
00:53:10,060 --> 00:53:11,100
Did you just have a post office?
other senators will defer some
939
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:15,180
time so I can, I can
answer this for you,
940
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,190
because I think it's
an important issue,
941
00:53:17,210 --> 00:53:18,120
but no, we had--
942
00:53:18,140 --> 00:53:20,140
RON: Mister Chairman, this is...
943
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:23,140
SENATOR 1: I think he should go
ahead and answer it right now.
944
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:24,070
SENATOR 2: He should get a
chance to answer the question.
945
00:53:24,090 --> 00:53:25,120
SENATOR 1: Yeah.
946
00:53:25,140 --> 00:53:26,180
RON: I'm very troubled about
this question of how you're
947
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:32,070
gonna unrig the system if you've
got a record of taking advantage
948
00:53:32,090 --> 00:53:35,110
of tax shelters that, in effect,
have zero percent tax rate.
949
00:53:35,130 --> 00:53:37,020
Thank you, Mister Chairman.
950
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:41,150
The taxes you pay
are compulsory.
951
00:53:42,050 --> 00:53:44,030
They come out of your paycheck,
you can see it once or twice
952
00:53:44,050 --> 00:53:46,150
a month.
953
00:53:46,170 --> 00:53:50,060
There're no Cayman
Island deals for you,
954
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,220
not, none of those kinda
sweetheart overseas deals for
955
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:58,100
you the way Steve Mnuchin,
the Treasury Secretary, got.
956
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:02,130
Then there's another set of tax
rules for the fortunate and the
957
00:54:02,150 --> 00:54:05,020
well-connected.
958
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,150
They can pretty much decide
under the tax law what they're
959
00:54:07,170 --> 00:54:09,120
going to pay, when
they're going to pay it,
960
00:54:12,010 --> 00:54:15,140
and in some
instances, almost nothing.
961
00:54:19,070 --> 00:54:22,040
MAN 6: The problem today
is really that the U.S.
962
00:54:22,060 --> 00:54:25,120
is the best place
to put your assets.
963
00:54:28,020 --> 00:54:29,060
MAN 6: Over the
last couple of decades,
964
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,200
we've seen increasingly that
shell companies registered in
965
00:54:31,220 --> 00:54:35,160
the U.S. are used to
commit all sorts of crimes
966
00:54:35,180 --> 00:54:36,230
from human trafficking
to drug trafficking
967
00:54:37,010 --> 00:54:37,120
to arms dealing.
968
00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:39,160
The list goes on and on.
969
00:54:42,210 --> 00:54:45,100
BASTIAN: Looking to
Delaware, looking to Nevada,
970
00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:47,110
that's a, for example, a
jurisdiction Mossack Fonseca was
971
00:54:47,130 --> 00:54:49,000
very active.
972
00:54:49,020 --> 00:54:51,010
KEVIN: We found a lot of
Brazilians hiding property owned
973
00:54:51,030 --> 00:54:53,040
in Brazil through
Nevada offshore,
974
00:54:53,060 --> 00:54:57,170
so Nevada was being used by
Brazilians in a way that Cayman
975
00:54:57,190 --> 00:54:58,210
Islands, Bahamas might be used
by an American trying to hide
976
00:54:58,230 --> 00:55:00,200
ownership of an asset.
977
00:55:05,070 --> 00:55:07,220
DINA: Well, Nevada has always
had this approach to raising
978
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,010
revenue that we wanna
attack somebody else,
979
00:55:10,030 --> 00:55:11,080
not the people who live here.
980
00:55:11,100 --> 00:55:15,230
Though, back in the '90s, they
decided to become the Delaware
981
00:55:16,010 --> 00:55:19,080
of the west and tried to follow
that example and make it very
982
00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:24,020
easy for shell companies,
LLCs, to be set up there without
983
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,180
having any kind of information
available about who owned them
984
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,010
or who benefited from them.
985
00:55:30,030 --> 00:55:32,050
I said, at the
time, that it was,
986
00:55:32,070 --> 00:55:34,170
might as well hang
up a shingle and say,
987
00:55:34,190 --> 00:55:37,060
"Welcome scumbags and sleaze
balls" because those are the
988
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:40,150
kind of people who want to
keep their information secret,
989
00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:42,170
but it became a
source of revenue,
990
00:55:42,190 --> 00:55:44,050
so you didn't
have to raise taxes.
991
00:55:48,090 --> 00:55:51,190
DINA: Well, I'm afraid they're
rolling back the protections
992
00:55:51,210 --> 00:55:53,020
that were put in at Dodd-Frank
and a lot of that was about
993
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,210
accountability and transparency.
994
00:55:55,230 --> 00:55:58,190
Banks fought that, so they're
certainly not gonna want to open
995
00:55:58,210 --> 00:56:00,180
it up any further.
996
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:06,220
MAN 5: You can find tax
havens all around the world.
997
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,100
They are in the
U.S., they are in the UK.
998
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,220
GERARD: Now having done
six of these projects,
999
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:14,020
I would say with some
certainty that the,
1000
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:16,220
probably the biggest tax haven
in the world is-is Britain,
1001
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,140
and its, you know,
its former colonies.
1002
00:56:21,050 --> 00:56:21,150
JULIETTE: We're
open for business.
1003
00:56:21,170 --> 00:56:22,210
We like oligarchs.
1004
00:56:22,230 --> 00:56:26,030
I don't want to exaggerate
and say we're just a tax haven,
1005
00:56:26,050 --> 00:56:30,200
but you know, the-the state
is-is captured by finance.
1006
00:56:32,010 --> 00:56:33,050
GERARD: Close
behind it is America,
1007
00:56:33,070 --> 00:56:35,200
and I think in the future, it
would be great if someone gave
1008
00:56:35,220 --> 00:56:37,230
us, you know, Delaware leaks.
1009
00:56:38,010 --> 00:56:41,100
We would uncover, you know,
secrets that may be bigger than
1010
00:56:41,120 --> 00:56:43,070
anything we've ever done before.
1011
00:56:44,150 --> 00:56:46,200
JOHN: I call on the
European Commission,
1012
00:56:46,220 --> 00:56:50,030
the British Parliament,
the United States Congress,
1013
00:56:50,050 --> 00:56:53,030
and all nations to
take swift action,
1014
00:56:53,050 --> 00:56:55,040
not only to
protect whistleblowers,
1015
00:56:55,060 --> 00:56:58,060
but to put an end to the global
abuse of corporate registers.
1016
00:56:59,210 --> 00:57:03,000
Tax evasion cannot possibly be
fixed while elected officials
1017
00:57:03,020 --> 00:57:06,090
are pleading for money from
the very elites who have the
1018
00:57:06,110 --> 00:57:09,040
strongest incentives to avoid
taxes relative to any other
1019
00:57:09,060 --> 00:57:10,210
segment of the population.
1020
00:57:30,110 --> 00:57:34,000
FREDERIK: I was actually
concerned every day about the
1021
00:57:34,020 --> 00:57:38,190
security of this whole project
because let's face the facts.
1022
00:57:38,210 --> 00:57:42,080
Journalists like to
speak about their work.
1023
00:57:42,100 --> 00:57:44,100
GERARD: You know, every
journalist you bring in,
1024
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,230
they're probably going to
tell their life partner,
1025
00:57:47,010 --> 00:57:48,230
they're probably going to
tell their best friends,
1026
00:57:49,010 --> 00:57:51,000
so the risks were going up
exponentially every time you
1027
00:57:51,020 --> 00:57:52,170
brought somebody in.
1028
00:57:52,190 --> 00:57:56,020
MATTHEW: We were so focused on
the digital part that I think
1029
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,010
you forget that a lot of
journalists are going to need to
1030
00:57:59,030 --> 00:58:02,010
have interviews
with sources,
1031
00:58:02,030 --> 00:58:05,100
they're going to have these
interviews in bars or in cafes
1032
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:09,130
or in public places, and they're
not going to be conscious of the
1033
00:58:09,150 --> 00:58:12,010
fact that other people might be
following them or listening to
1034
00:58:12,030 --> 00:58:13,130
their conversation.
1035
00:58:14,230 --> 00:58:16,050
LUKE: It's funny, really,
because to, generally,
1036
00:58:16,070 --> 00:58:18,210
toextract secrets
from a journalist,
1037
00:58:18,230 --> 00:58:21,090
you just need to
take the journalist to the bar,
1038
00:58:21,110 --> 00:58:23,220
buy the journalist a
beer or maybe two beers,
1039
00:58:24,010 --> 00:58:26,130
if they're, if
they're being kind of tricky,
1040
00:58:26,150 --> 00:58:28,140
and they will
tell you everything.
1041
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:30,100
MAN 7: My colleagues say, I
haven't seen any stories.
1042
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:31,100
What are you doing?
1043
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:32,170
I say, it's a project.
1044
00:58:32,190 --> 00:58:35,030
It's a regional project,
actually worldwide,
1045
00:58:35,050 --> 00:58:37,050
and we're just
looking at something.
1046
00:58:37,070 --> 00:58:39,030
And they say, well,
when's it coming out?
1047
00:58:39,050 --> 00:58:40,180
Well, I couldn't really answer.
1048
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,020
JÓHANNES: You had this in
mind the whole time that one
1049
00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:48,150
mistake could
jeopardize the whole project.
1050
00:58:50,150 --> 00:58:52,010
RITA: My life,
during all those months,
1051
00:58:52,030 --> 00:58:54,020
was kinda like a spy life.
1052
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,060
I couldn't tell
them what I was doing,
1053
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:58,180
and I felt awful
because, at the same time,
1054
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:01,020
I was investigating my friends.
1055
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:04,130
I would go to dinner
parties, and during the day,
1056
00:59:04,150 --> 00:59:08,070
I was just searching documents
that somehow mentioned them.
1057
00:59:09,090 --> 00:59:11,120
EL NORTE: We felt responsible
for their safety and that that
1058
00:59:11,140 --> 00:59:15,230
was also something we
repeatedly told our colleagues.
1059
00:59:16,010 --> 00:59:18,220
Be aware that there is
colleagues of us out there
1060
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:20,230
risking their life
with this reporting,
1061
00:59:21,010 --> 00:59:24,000
and if you tell too much,
you could risk their life.
1062
01:00:01,220 --> 01:00:03,120
BASTIAN: In the last weeks
before our publication date,
1063
01:00:03,140 --> 01:00:07,010
we had to do everything
to protect our source,
1064
01:00:07,030 --> 01:00:10,050
so we stopped all
communications.
1065
01:00:10,070 --> 01:00:13,230
We destroyed effectively
the-the devices that we used to
1066
01:00:14,010 --> 01:00:15,080
communicate with the source.
1067
01:00:15,100 --> 01:00:17,040
My iPhone and my computer.
1068
01:00:17,060 --> 01:00:21,110
We deleted all
the files with several programs,
1069
01:00:21,130 --> 01:00:25,000
so run it over
and over and over until it was
1070
01:00:25,020 --> 01:00:26,110
completely flat.
1071
01:00:26,130 --> 01:00:29,060
But then, again, we
weren't really sure,
1072
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:31,080
you know, if you
really can trust this,
1073
01:00:31,100 --> 01:00:34,160
so, I more or less
took a hammer and started
1074
01:00:34,180 --> 01:00:37,170
smashing the things.
1075
01:00:37,190 --> 01:00:41,080
We didn't want to throw it away
because we were so paranoid back
1076
01:00:41,100 --> 01:00:44,220
then that we thoguh if
someone finds it,
1077
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,000
maybe he can do
something with it.
1078
01:00:48,180 --> 01:00:51,100
MARINA: The most dangerous
moment in the investigation,
1079
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:55,050
and the most tense moment, when
we start reaching out to people
1080
01:00:55,070 --> 01:00:57,090
for comment.
1081
01:00:58,230 --> 01:01:04,010
If we have had a year to look at
your bank information and your
1082
01:01:04,030 --> 01:01:07,120
company information, we
are not going to surprise you.
1083
01:01:07,140 --> 01:01:09,160
BASTIAN: You don't
approach people and say,
1084
01:01:09,180 --> 01:01:12,220
listen, the team
of Mossack Fonseca,
1085
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:15,110
you lost all your data.
1086
01:01:17,150 --> 01:01:19,020
JULIETTE: The camera
crews for the broadcasters
1087
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:21,100
involved in the project
descended on the offices of
1088
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:25,060
Mossack Fonseca in Panama City
and demanded to talk to someone,
1089
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:26,050
get a statement.
1090
01:01:36,190 --> 01:01:38,150
BASTIAN: We sent them an email.
1091
01:01:38,170 --> 01:01:42,070
We saw documents that seemed
to indicate that you have many
1092
01:01:42,090 --> 01:01:45,100
troubles with your due diligence
and the way you choose
1093
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:47,080
your customers.
1094
01:01:50,150 --> 01:01:53,190
BASTIAN: Then it follows,
um, a long list of questions.
1095
01:01:53,210 --> 01:01:56,060
Very detailed,
very much to the cases.
1096
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:59,120
So they said, we're not
involved in illegal dealings.
1097
01:01:59,140 --> 01:02:03,160
We have never contact with
the customers directly.
1098
01:02:03,180 --> 01:02:08,030
We only work with
intermediaries, which are lies.
1099
01:02:08,050 --> 01:02:11,150
Well, I've heard, well now,
everything might blow up.
1100
01:02:11,170 --> 01:02:14,140
Now it will be hundreds of
lawyers trying to stop our
1101
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:18,000
reporting, hundreds of
people all around the world get
1102
01:02:18,020 --> 01:02:19,230
knowledge about
our investigation,
1103
01:02:20,010 --> 01:02:22,020
and that's people
like drug lords,
1104
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:24,220
criminals, and of course we
feared that something
1105
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:25,230
might happen.
1106
01:02:32,090 --> 01:02:34,090
RITA: It was
very stressful for-for all of us
1107
01:02:34,110 --> 01:02:38,090
because at that point, yeah,
we had to call our sources,
1108
01:02:38,110 --> 01:02:40,190
we had to call the people
that we were writing about,
1109
01:02:40,210 --> 01:02:46,160
and people started to
know more and more and more.
1110
01:02:46,180 --> 01:02:51,070
We started to have a
bodyguard because that's when we
1111
01:02:51,090 --> 01:02:54,160
received a non-direct
threat by Mossack Fonseca.
1112
01:02:54,180 --> 01:02:56,200
So they came and said, you know,
we know you have a journalist
1113
01:02:56,220 --> 01:02:59,080
who's helping the
international media,
1114
01:02:59,100 --> 01:03:02,190
and she, and she's been
she's been paid for,
1115
01:03:02,210 --> 01:03:06,120
and she is trying to
diminish the reputation of
1116
01:03:06,140 --> 01:03:09,040
our firm and the country,
and she was gonna have to,
1117
01:03:09,060 --> 01:03:12,100
you know,
suffer the consequences.
1118
01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:13,190
So the paper
immediately said, you know,
1119
01:03:13,210 --> 01:03:16,170
you can't be around
without any protection.
1120
01:03:16,190 --> 01:03:18,120
My friends were here.
1121
01:03:18,140 --> 01:03:21,040
We go pick them up at
the hotel, and there's,
1122
01:03:21,060 --> 01:03:23,050
there is a bodyguard
there driving the car.
1123
01:03:23,070 --> 01:03:25,160
So we said, oh,
it's just an Uber.
1124
01:03:25,180 --> 01:03:28,080
But we forgot to hide the gun he
had in the middle of the
1125
01:03:28,100 --> 01:03:29,210
front seat.
1126
01:03:29,230 --> 01:03:34,130
We had to live a double
life and-and that really was
1127
01:03:34,150 --> 01:03:38,160
something that changed
our lives from that moment.
1128
01:03:42,060 --> 01:03:44,220
FREDERIK: The
most frightening moment for me
1129
01:03:45,000 --> 01:03:50,090
shortly before publication was
when I personally had to write
1130
01:03:50,110 --> 01:03:55,050
an email to the Kremlin
basically addressing it to "Dear
1131
01:03:55,070 --> 01:03:59,220
Mr. Vladimir Putin" and laying
out what we found in regards to
1132
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:05,220
this net of companies around his
friend Sergei Roldugin that was
1133
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,180
funneling hundreds of millions
of dollar out of Russia,
1134
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:14,140
and I've never written an
email to Vladimir Putin before.
1135
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:17,220
Some days later,
Vladimir Putin's spokesperson,
1136
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:22,090
Mr. Peskov, did a
press conference in Moscow.
1137
01:04:22,110 --> 01:04:24,190
DMITRY PESKOV: The
documents show nothing
1138
01:04:24,210 --> 01:04:26,100
about Mister Putin.
1139
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:31,180
Everything that was,
interconnected with our
1140
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:34,050
president, was
written by newspapers.
1141
01:04:34,070 --> 01:04:36,150
It was written by
journalists without having
1142
01:04:36,170 --> 01:04:39,070
obvious facts for that.
1143
01:04:39,090 --> 01:04:41,150
FREDERIK: It was
clear to me, oh, shit.
1144
01:04:41,170 --> 01:04:45,080
He's speaking about that
email I sent some days ago.
1145
01:04:45,100 --> 01:04:47,100
DMITRY: And now we're
understanding this is nothing
1146
01:04:47,120 --> 01:04:50,160
else by, but a
reflection of,
1147
01:04:50,180 --> 01:04:53,170
let's say, an
overwhelmed
1148
01:04:53,190 --> 01:04:57,140
Putin-aphobia disease that
unfortunately has quite spread
1149
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:02,150
now in lots of media.
1150
01:05:02,170 --> 01:05:06,130
FREDERIK: It was clearly obvious
that the Kremlin was pissed off.
1151
01:05:08,090 --> 01:05:12,120
MARINA: We got a lot of legal
threats and there were so many.
1152
01:05:12,140 --> 01:05:14,230
They were really piling up.
1153
01:05:15,010 --> 01:05:18,230
Everyone that we contacted
recruited the best lawyers to
1154
01:05:19,010 --> 01:05:24,000
threaten ICIJ, to try to, um,
get us to show them documents,
1155
01:05:24,020 --> 01:05:28,070
to try to get us to
not publish the story.
1156
01:05:28,180 --> 01:05:31,200
SCOTT: Drug trafficking,
income inequality, poverty.
1157
01:05:31,220 --> 01:05:34,090
You look at those
problems in the world,
1158
01:05:34,110 --> 01:05:38,200
and a lot of the keys to
addressing those problems are in
1159
01:05:38,220 --> 01:05:40,150
the Panama Papers.
1160
01:05:40,170 --> 01:05:46,120
Even though you feel like you,
you may wake up one day and-and
1161
01:05:46,140 --> 01:05:49,160
have somebody in your
bedroom pointing a gun at you,
1162
01:05:49,180 --> 01:05:52,190
you feel like youhave to
keep going on this because it's
1163
01:05:52,210 --> 01:05:55,190
too important.
1164
01:05:58,180 --> 01:05:59,200
JÓHANNES: So
coming from Iceland,
1165
01:05:59,220 --> 01:06:03,200
I knew that if I would
start asking questions about the
1166
01:06:03,220 --> 01:06:05,200
offshore company of
the Prime Minister,
1167
01:06:05,220 --> 01:06:11,080
early, then all the alarm
bells would ring inside the
1168
01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:15,050
government and inside the
institutions here in Iceland.
1169
01:06:15,070 --> 01:06:19,100
So we had to find
a way to get
1170
01:06:19,120 --> 01:06:23,200
the reactions from the
Prime Minister on camera.
1171
01:06:23,220 --> 01:06:28,090
So we decided after a
lengthy talk about the ethical
1172
01:06:28,110 --> 01:06:31,210
issues, to confront him.
1173
01:06:32,190 --> 01:06:33,190
JOURNALIST:
Mister Prime Minister,
1174
01:06:33,210 --> 01:06:38,100
what can you tell me about
a company called Wintris?
1175
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:44,130
PRIME MINISTER GUNNLAUGSSON:
Well, it's a company of,
1176
01:06:44,150 --> 01:06:48,100
if I recall correctly, which
is associated with one of the
1177
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:50,120
companies that I,
was on a board of,
1178
01:06:50,140 --> 01:06:57,180
and, it was a,
hadan account which as I,
1179
01:06:57,200 --> 01:07:02,220
as I mentioned, has
been with the tax,
1180
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:06,110
on the tax account
since it was established.
1181
01:07:06,130 --> 01:07:09,110
So now I'm starting to feel a
bit strange about this question
1182
01:07:09,130 --> 01:07:12,100
because it's like you are
accusing me of something when
1183
01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:16,190
you are asking me about a
company that has been on my--
1184
01:07:16,210 --> 01:07:17,190
JOURNALIST: Let, let--
1185
01:07:17,210 --> 01:07:19,070
PRIME MINISTER GUNNLAUGSSON:
tax return from
1186
01:07:19,090 --> 01:07:20,070
the beginning.
1187
01:07:20,090 --> 01:07:21,100
JOURNALIST: Yeah,
it must be okay for me as a
1188
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:23,130
journalist to ask the Prime
Minister about personal--
1189
01:07:23,150 --> 01:07:24,180
PRIME MINISTER GUNNLAUGSSON:
Yes, sure.
1190
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:28,030
But you are indicating that
I have not paid, taxes on it.
1191
01:07:28,050 --> 01:07:29,070
JOURNALIST: No, I'm
just asking you questions.
1192
01:07:29,090 --> 01:07:29,140
PRIME MINISTER GUNNLAUGSSON:
Okay,
1193
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:30,150
okay.
1194
01:07:30,170 --> 01:07:31,230
JOURNALIST: So, so, uh,
to go into the details,
1195
01:07:32,010 --> 01:07:34,230
I would like my partner to do
it in Icelandic because I don't
1196
01:07:35,010 --> 01:07:37,210
have the details,
uh, to discuss it.
1197
01:08:24,210 --> 01:08:26,080
KRISTJÁNSSON: The time
between the interview and the
1198
01:08:26,100 --> 01:08:29,120
publication was
a stressful time.
1199
01:08:29,140 --> 01:08:31,130
The wife of
the Prime Minister,
1200
01:08:31,150 --> 01:08:36,000
she posted a Facebook
status talking about some
1201
01:08:36,020 --> 01:08:38,200
attacks from the media.
1202
01:08:38,220 --> 01:08:42,030
Soon, I realized that, uh, we
shouldn't be afraid because we
1203
01:08:42,050 --> 01:08:46,010
had all the materials,
we had the interview,
1204
01:08:46,030 --> 01:08:49,010
uh, and uh, I
talk, I told my staff,
1205
01:08:49,030 --> 01:08:52,010
you know, just relax because we
are going to publish this and,
1206
01:08:52,030 --> 01:08:54,160
uh, it will be big.
1207
01:09:02,230 --> 01:09:04,170
PAUL: We were utterly convinced
that night that we were gonna
1208
01:09:04,190 --> 01:09:08,120
light the Blue Torch Paper
despite nobody going beforehand,
1209
01:09:08,140 --> 01:09:10,120
there was still an
air of expectancy.
1210
01:09:10,140 --> 01:09:12,140
People knew a big
story was coming.
1211
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,170
LUKE: What was weird was about
ten minutes before we were due
1212
01:09:14,190 --> 01:09:18,020
to press send, Edward Snowden
tweeted out a link to the
1213
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:21,010
English language website of
Süddeutsche Zeitung MAN 4: The
1214
01:09:21,030 --> 01:09:24,090
people who follow him
then were alerted to this,
1215
01:09:24,110 --> 01:09:26,120
and that's a
pretty wide universe.
1216
01:09:26,140 --> 01:09:28,120
JULIETTE: Gerard Ryle,
the Director of the ICIJ,
1217
01:09:28,140 --> 01:09:30,200
is hammering the phones getting
everyone to just hold
1218
01:09:30,220 --> 01:09:32,140
their nerve.
1219
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:33,230
GERARD: I thought it was very
important that we all hold the
1220
01:09:34,010 --> 01:09:36,020
line, that what was
happening with the press
1221
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,180
conference from the Kremlin and
what was happening in Iceland at
1222
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:41,020
the time where parts of the
story were getting out through
1223
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:43,150
Facebook, through the
Icelandic Prime Minister's wife,
1224
01:09:43,170 --> 01:09:45,170
like there was a
lot of nervousness,
1225
01:09:45,190 --> 01:09:47,170
and I really thought
that all of these events,
1226
01:09:47,190 --> 01:09:49,190
all of these small
things happening,
1227
01:09:49,210 --> 01:09:51,180
even though, you know, we
were being talked about a week
1228
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:53,190
beforehand, no one
really knew the bigger story.
1229
01:09:53,210 --> 01:09:55,190
JULIETTE: You know, I'm, uh,
describing it a bit like a,
1230
01:09:55,210 --> 01:09:58,220
a general standing at the top
of the hill holding back the
1231
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,140
troops, you know, waiting as
the opposing army approaches,
1232
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:04,180
approaches, you
know, hold, hold, hold, go!
1233
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:05,180
Charge!
1234
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:07,190
TIM:
When that day hits,
1235
01:10:07,210 --> 01:10:10,150
things happen
fairly quickly.
1236
01:10:12,190 --> 01:10:15,060
NEWS REPORTER 20: The so-called
Panama Papers now exposing the
1237
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:19,150
secret financial dealings of
politicians and celebrities.
1238
01:10:19,170 --> 01:10:21,180
NEWS REPORTER 21: Many of
the world's most powerful
1239
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:24,030
politicians, wealthy business
owners and popular celebrities
1240
01:10:24,050 --> 01:10:26,160
are now desperately trying to
distance themselves from the
1241
01:10:26,180 --> 01:10:30,200
fallout and consequences
of the Panama Papers.
1242
01:10:30,220 --> 01:10:33,160
MARISA: There was an immediate
response on social media.
1243
01:10:33,180 --> 01:10:35,160
MAN 8: They're
all on the inside,
1244
01:10:35,180 --> 01:10:37,140
we are out on the
street looking in.
1245
01:10:37,160 --> 01:10:39,110
Hello?
1246
01:10:39,130 --> 01:10:41,030
MARINA: This thing exploded and
took an entire life of its own.
1247
01:10:41,050 --> 01:10:43,040
NEWS REPORTER 22: We turn now
to the banking bombshell causing
1248
01:10:43,060 --> 01:10:44,190
shockwaves around the world.
1249
01:10:44,210 --> 01:10:45,150
NEWS REPORTER 23:
Panama Papers...
1250
01:10:45,170 --> 01:10:46,210
NEWS REPORTER 24:
1251
01:10:46,230 --> 01:10:48,020
NEWS REPORTER 25: The Panama Papers...
1252
01:10:48,040 --> 01:10:49,060
NEWS REPORTER 26: The Panama Papers.
1253
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:51,200
GEORGE: What may be the largest
leak of secret documents
1254
01:10:51,220 --> 01:10:53,110
in history.
1255
01:10:53,130 --> 01:10:55,050
NEWS REPORTER 27: A blockbuster
release of millions of
1256
01:10:55,070 --> 01:10:56,090
financial documents.
1257
01:10:56,110 --> 01:10:58,200
NEWS REPORTER 28: This is
the biggest attack on the tax
1258
01:10:58,220 --> 01:11:00,000
shelter industry.
1259
01:11:00,020 --> 01:11:01,030
It's a trillion dollar industry.
1260
01:11:01,050 --> 01:11:01,200
NEWS REPORTER 29: It is.
1261
01:11:01,220 --> 01:11:02,190
It is a trillion
dollar industry.
1262
01:11:02,210 --> 01:11:05,040
JAKE: The UK,
France, Australia, Mexico,
1263
01:11:05,060 --> 01:11:07,120
all say they're
going to investigate.
1264
01:11:08,090 --> 01:11:13,050
ROBERTO: When it blew up, I
had no idea the size of
1265
01:11:13,070 --> 01:11:15,000
the situation.
1266
01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:16,060
NEWS REPORTER 30: Panama Police
have raided the offices of the
1267
01:11:16,080 --> 01:11:20,030
law firm at the center of the
country's massive data leak.
1268
01:11:29,030 --> 01:11:33,150
JACK: Now the problem is can the
various judicial systems of the
1269
01:11:33,170 --> 01:11:37,140
world handle all of this
material without getting a
1270
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:41,020
horrendous case of indigestion?
1271
01:12:08,220 --> 01:12:11,020
JÜRGEN: We have always dealt
with professional clients all
1272
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:12,050
over the world, only.
1273
01:12:12,070 --> 01:12:15,160
RITA: After the publication,
the example they gave it,
1274
01:12:15,180 --> 01:12:17,130
we were like a knife
factory, you know?
1275
01:12:17,150 --> 01:12:18,220
We sell the knives.
1276
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:20,230
If people kill, kill
other people with knives,
1277
01:12:21,010 --> 01:12:22,180
it is not our fault.
1278
01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:26,140
The problem is they always knew
who had the knives and what were
1279
01:12:26,160 --> 01:12:28,220
they gonna do with the knives.
1280
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,100
NEWS REPORTER 32: The law
firm is denying any wrongdoing.
1281
01:12:31,120 --> 01:12:35,170
RITA: When we'd realized how big
it was was when we saw people
1282
01:12:35,190 --> 01:12:38,050
going out in the streets.
1283
01:12:42,030 --> 01:12:43,080
NEWS REPORTER 33: Thousands of
Icelanders took the streets,
1284
01:12:43,100 --> 01:12:46,100
calling on the Prime Minister to
resign following allegations he
1285
01:12:46,120 --> 01:12:48,110
benefited from offshore
holdings and tax havens.
1286
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:56,020
NEWS REPORTER 34: The first
casualty of the Panama Papers
1287
01:12:56,040 --> 01:12:57,060
has fallen.
1288
01:12:57,080 --> 01:13:00,150
Prime Minister of Iceland
yielded his post on Tuesday amid
1289
01:13:00,170 --> 01:13:02,230
public uproar that he failed to
disclose links to an
1290
01:13:03,010 --> 01:13:04,190
offshore company.
1291
01:13:10,090 --> 01:13:13,030
NEWS REPORTER 35: Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif, he may be thrown
1292
01:13:13,050 --> 01:13:15,000
out of office over allegations
that his family owned several
1293
01:13:15,020 --> 01:13:16,220
illegal offshore businesses.
1294
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,200
CROWD:
1295
01:13:19,220 --> 01:13:23,070
NEWS REPORTER 36: Corruption and
bribery at the highest level
1296
01:13:23,090 --> 01:13:25,150
on the streets of Rio Sao Paulo
and dozens of other cities.
1297
01:13:25,170 --> 01:13:28,230
Protestors laid the blame at
the door of President
1298
01:13:29,010 --> 01:13:29,230
Dilma Rousseff.
1299
01:13:30,010 --> 01:13:32,070
MAN 8: Every day
there is a new scandal.
1300
01:13:32,090 --> 01:13:33,230
Every day there is something
related to money being taken out
1301
01:13:34,010 --> 01:13:35,230
of the country.
1302
01:13:36,010 --> 01:13:37,190
NEWS REPORTER 37: We have some
breaking news from Brazil where
1303
01:13:37,210 --> 01:13:41,070
the senate there has voted to
impeach President Dilma Rousseff
1304
01:13:41,090 --> 01:13:43,110
and plunges the country
into political chaos.
1305
01:13:43,130 --> 01:13:45,030
KEVIN: Look at Brazil.
1306
01:13:45,050 --> 01:13:48,170
That's probably the country
where the Panama Papers has had
1307
01:13:48,190 --> 01:13:49,170
the most impact.
1308
01:13:54,020 --> 01:13:56,070
KEVIN: Iceland got the
headlines with the president.
1309
01:13:56,090 --> 01:13:59,120
The entire ruling
structure of Brazil is crumbling
1310
01:13:59,140 --> 01:14:01,080
because so many of them are
tied into this money
1311
01:14:01,100 --> 01:14:03,000
laundering scheme.
1312
01:14:03,020 --> 01:14:04,200
CROWD:
1313
01:14:06,140 --> 01:14:07,160
NEWS REPORTER 38: Protestors
in the Argentine capital Buenos
1314
01:14:07,180 --> 01:14:10,070
Aires are calling for the
country's president to step down
1315
01:14:10,090 --> 01:14:13,040
after the so-called Panama
Papers revealed Mauricio Macri
1316
01:14:13,060 --> 01:14:17,080
is on the board of two offshore
firms: One in the Bahamas,
1317
01:14:17,100 --> 01:14:19,000
the other in Panama.
1318
01:14:19,020 --> 01:14:22,090
NEWS REPORTER 39: Several
thousand people filled a square
1319
01:14:22,110 --> 01:14:26,020
in Malta's capital on Sunday,
and demanded the resignation of
1320
01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:27,120
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.
1321
01:14:27,140 --> 01:14:30,030
MATTHEW: My mother
was in Malta alone,
1322
01:14:30,050 --> 01:14:33,170
fighting this with no, no
one backing her at all.
1323
01:14:33,190 --> 01:14:36,090
No institution.
1324
01:14:36,110 --> 01:14:38,210
GERARD: Daphne had been working
on a number of post-Panama
1325
01:14:38,230 --> 01:14:40,210
Paper stories.
1326
01:14:40,230 --> 01:14:43,150
She wasn't involved in the
Panama Papers investigation
1327
01:14:43,170 --> 01:14:46,020
itself, but she had taken our
reporting and gone further.
1328
01:14:50,010 --> 01:14:51,050
JACOB:
1329
01:14:51,070 --> 01:14:52,020
KONRAD: Good evening.
1330
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:53,170
Um, today, the,
yesterday's piece...
1331
01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:05,100
KONRAD: There are
no bank accounts,
1332
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:06,230
uh, no, no, no funds.
1333
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:15,180
KONRAD: And there are
absolutely no funds.
1334
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:16,080
Thank you.
1335
01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:22,010
MATTHEW: When the story
broke, they didn't resign.
1336
01:15:22,030 --> 01:15:23,140
I mean, I couldn't believe it.
1337
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:26,050
I could see, I mean, it was like
a disaster unfolding in
1338
01:15:26,070 --> 01:15:27,020
slow motion.
1339
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:02,160
NEWS REPORTER 40: British Prime
Minister David Cameron faces
1340
01:16:02,180 --> 01:16:06,030
backlash for implications in the
recently leaked Panama Papers.
1341
01:16:06,050 --> 01:16:07,100
JULIETTE: And that's when things
in the UK just went
1342
01:16:07,120 --> 01:16:09,200
really crazy.
1343
01:16:11,130 --> 01:16:13,000
LUKE: There was
turmoil in this country.
1344
01:16:13,020 --> 01:16:14,210
David Cameron had
the worst week.
1345
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:21,030
DAVID: Thank you,
Mister Speaker.
1346
01:16:21,050 --> 01:16:22,070
Thank you, Mister Speaker.
1347
01:16:22,090 --> 01:16:23,070
With permission, I would like to
make a statement on the
1348
01:16:23,090 --> 01:16:24,190
Panama Papers.
1349
01:16:25,050 --> 01:16:27,000
Dealing with my own
circumstances first,
1350
01:16:27,020 --> 01:16:30,120
yesterday I published all the
information in my tax returns,
1351
01:16:30,140 --> 01:16:33,000
not just for the last year,
but for the last six years.
1352
01:16:33,020 --> 01:16:35,110
I've also given additional
information about money
1353
01:16:35,130 --> 01:16:38,150
inherited and given to me by
my family so people can see the
1354
01:16:38,170 --> 01:16:40,130
sources of income that I have.
1355
01:16:40,150 --> 01:16:43,060
This is an entirely
standard practice,
1356
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:46,050
and it is not to avoid tax.
1357
01:16:46,070 --> 01:16:49,150
JEREMY CORBYN: May I thank
the Prime Minister for the
1358
01:16:49,170 --> 01:16:51,130
advance site of his statement.
1359
01:16:51,150 --> 01:16:55,110
It is absolutely a masterclass
in the art of distraction.
1360
01:16:58,100 --> 01:17:00,120
JULIETTE: He refused to say
whether he had any money in his
1361
01:17:00,140 --> 01:17:01,120
father's offshore fund.
1362
01:17:01,140 --> 01:17:03,130
PAUL: He'd gone
on record saying,
1363
01:17:03,150 --> 01:17:05,170
we've gotta end
secrecy about tax avoidance.
1364
01:17:05,190 --> 01:17:08,000
He'd gone on record saying we've
gotta shine a light on where
1365
01:17:08,020 --> 01:17:09,070
this money comes from.
1366
01:17:09,090 --> 01:17:12,020
DAVID: Some of these schemes
where people are parking huge
1367
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,090
amounts of money offshore
and taking loans back to just
1368
01:17:15,110 --> 01:17:19,140
minimize their tax rates, it
is not morally acceptable.
1369
01:17:19,160 --> 01:17:21,170
PAUL: So he then
had to come out,
1370
01:17:21,190 --> 01:17:24,060
and this was the fourth or fifth
explanation over a period of
1371
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:26,050
three days,
saying, well, actually,
1372
01:17:26,070 --> 01:17:27,100
I did benefit from the shares.
1373
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:30,090
DAVID: Samantha and I
had a joint account.
1374
01:17:30,110 --> 01:17:33,090
We owned, uh, 5,000
units in Blaire Moore,
1375
01:17:33,110 --> 01:17:38,110
uh, Investment Trust, which we
sold in January, uh, 2010.
1376
01:17:38,130 --> 01:17:41,080
Uh, that was worth
something like 30,000 pounds.
1377
01:17:41,100 --> 01:17:43,100
Was there a profit on it?
1378
01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:45,090
I paid, um,
income tax on the dividends,
1379
01:17:45,110 --> 01:17:47,120
but there was
a profit on it,
1380
01:17:47,140 --> 01:17:50,050
but it was less than the
capital gains tax allowance,
1381
01:17:50,070 --> 01:17:52,100
so I didn't pay
capital gains tax,
1382
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:55,040
but it was subject to all the
UK taxes in all the normal ways.
1383
01:17:56,160 --> 01:17:58,170
WOMAN 3: A few months
later, Britain was gonna hold a
1384
01:17:58,190 --> 01:18:02,180
referendum on whether to
leave the European Union.
1385
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:06,060
NEWS REPORTER 41: People of
Britain have spoken,
1386
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:08,100
voting for a British
exit, dubbed Brexit,
1387
01:18:08,120 --> 01:18:11,100
with almost 52% of the
votes choosing to leave the 28
1388
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:14,100
member European Union.
1389
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:17,060
NEWS REPORTER 41: And Cameron
was the figurehead for Romaine,
1390
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:20,110
but the British press is
dominated by press barrons who
1391
01:18:20,130 --> 01:18:24,100
wanted us to leave, and it
suited their agenda to destroy
1392
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:25,170
the figurehead for Romane.
1393
01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:30,050
DAVID: On Wednesday, I would
attend the House of Commons for
1394
01:18:30,070 --> 01:18:32,180
Prime Ministers, answer
questions, and then after that,
1395
01:18:32,200 --> 01:18:35,180
I expect to go to the
Palace and offer my resignation,
1396
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:38,110
so we'll have a new Prime
Minister in that building behind
1397
01:18:38,130 --> 01:18:40,120
me by Wednesday evening.
1398
01:18:40,140 --> 01:18:42,150
Thank you very much.
1399
01:18:43,170 --> 01:18:46,040
PAUL: Cameron helped to create
this moral atmosphere which
1400
01:18:46,060 --> 01:18:49,180
said, look, this behavior is
wrong and should not be helped
1401
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:53,070
by the laws that we have
in existence at the moment.
1402
01:18:59,210 --> 01:19:02,110
MAN 8: The documents show allies
to Russian President Vladimir
1403
01:19:02,130 --> 01:19:05,150
Putin secretly shuffled as much
as $2 billion through
1404
01:19:05,170 --> 01:19:08,060
banks and shadow companies.
1405
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:10,000
PAUL: Day one, of course,
was Vladimir Putin and the two
1406
01:19:10,020 --> 01:19:12,150
$2 billion worth of
money that led back to him,
1407
01:19:12,170 --> 01:19:14,150
which was a remarkable story.
1408
01:19:14,170 --> 01:19:17,110
It's been one of international
journalism's holy grails,
1409
01:19:17,130 --> 01:19:19,120
really, that story.
1410
01:19:19,140 --> 01:19:21,090
JOHN OLIVER: The papers revealed
the identity of a suspiciously
1411
01:19:21,110 --> 01:19:26,050
rich cellist, which raises
immediate red flags for me,
1412
01:19:26,070 --> 01:19:28,110
'cause I always thought the
only way to make millions with a
1413
01:19:28,130 --> 01:19:31,070
cello is to use it
to dig for gold.
1414
01:20:01,030 --> 01:20:02,120
LUKE: You know, he's basically
saying we're all spies.
1415
01:20:02,140 --> 01:20:05,080
We scheme dastardly stuff to
try and defame the
1416
01:20:05,100 --> 01:20:07,090
Russian Federation.
1417
01:20:07,110 --> 01:20:08,130
Now, of course
that isn't the case,
1418
01:20:08,150 --> 01:20:10,090
and if it were a CIA plot--
1419
01:20:11,190 --> 01:20:13,180
LUKE: --how come David
Cameron got sucked in?
1420
01:20:13,200 --> 01:20:15,050
How come demonstrations
in Iceland
1421
01:20:15,070 --> 01:20:17,100
and Argentina?
1422
01:20:18,070 --> 01:20:19,120
JULIETTE: I mean
the hilarious thing,
1423
01:20:19,140 --> 01:20:24,060
you know, is that Putin ended
up having to buy lots of cellos.
1424
01:20:24,230 --> 01:20:26,040
Roldugin bought lots of cellos
because he said it was for
1425
01:20:26,060 --> 01:20:29,070
buying cellos, so they went and
bought a lot of cellos after.
1426
01:20:33,150 --> 01:20:37,050
MARISA: This wasn't on
official news in Russia.
1427
01:20:37,070 --> 01:20:39,100
Unless you were
looking at foreign media,
1428
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:42,150
you had no idea that
the Panama Papers broke.
1429
01:20:42,170 --> 01:20:45,100
The officials who were
implicated in these documents
1430
01:20:45,120 --> 01:20:48,070
would retaliate
against journalists.
1431
01:20:48,090 --> 01:20:49,100
It's real.
1432
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:50,170
Journalists have been killed.
1433
01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:56,000
NEWS REPORTER 42: A car exploded
in flames in the Ukrainian
1434
01:20:56,020 --> 01:20:59,220
capital of Kiev early Wednesday
morning inside a prominent
1435
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,070
journalist, Pavel Sheremet.
1436
01:21:02,090 --> 01:21:05,150
MAN 9:
1437
01:21:05,170 --> 01:21:07,110
NEWS REPORTER 42: An eye witness
to the blast says several people
1438
01:21:07,130 --> 01:21:09,020
tried to pull Sheremet from
the car, but it appeared
1439
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:10,100
he was already dead.
1440
01:21:11,010 --> 01:21:13,090
LUKE: In Russia,
journalists, um,
1441
01:21:13,110 --> 01:21:15,060
both in the big
cities and the provinces,
1442
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,130
get killed, shot,
beaten to death.
1443
01:21:17,150 --> 01:21:19,100
Roman Anin who works
for Novaya Gazeta,
1444
01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:21,190
he was kind of
instrumental in, in chasing the,
1445
01:21:21,210 --> 01:21:23,210
following the money all the way
to Putin and making that kind
1446
01:21:23,230 --> 01:21:24,200
of connection.
1447
01:21:38,180 --> 01:21:40,110
FREDERIK: The Kremlin pretty
soon found out who our Russia
1448
01:21:40,130 --> 01:21:45,110
partners are, so there
was TV programs that were,
1449
01:21:45,130 --> 01:21:48,030
that basically
screamed something like,
1450
01:21:48,050 --> 01:21:52,150
"Wanted" posters of the two of
them putting out information,
1451
01:21:52,170 --> 01:21:55,020
um, on them, detailed
information that could lead
1452
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:58,160
people to the place where they
work or potentially where
1453
01:21:58,180 --> 01:22:00,030
they live.
1454
01:22:00,050 --> 01:22:03,070
They, to a certain point,
left Russia for a while.
1455
01:22:06,100 --> 01:22:09,070
RITA: We were
treated as, uh, traitors.
1456
01:22:09,090 --> 01:22:11,150
There were publications all
over the social networks and
1457
01:22:11,170 --> 01:22:14,190
everywhere blaming us
for selling our country,
1458
01:22:14,210 --> 01:22:16,150
blaming us for treason.
1459
01:22:16,170 --> 01:22:18,120
Theywere people saying,
"What should we do with a
1460
01:22:18,140 --> 01:22:20,000
traitor journalist?"
1461
01:22:20,020 --> 01:22:21,040
with our names.
1462
01:22:21,060 --> 01:22:23,060
They said, well, should we
throw them off the bridge of
1463
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:24,030
the canal?
1464
01:22:24,100 --> 01:22:26,110
Should we send
them to Punta Coco,
1465
01:22:26,130 --> 01:22:28,070
which is equivalent of
Alcatraz for Panama,
1466
01:22:28,090 --> 01:22:29,020
or should we just
send them to La Joya,
1467
01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:31,040
which is a maximum
security prison.
1468
01:22:32,020 --> 01:22:33,000
JOSEPH: This sort of thing
is happening
1469
01:22:33,020 --> 01:22:34,040
a lot of, a lot of
places in the world,
1470
01:22:34,060 --> 01:22:35,040
it's absolutely terrifying.
1471
01:22:35,060 --> 01:22:38,000
Me personally, I've been
physically threatened,
1472
01:22:38,020 --> 01:22:39,120
I've been
threatened with lawsuits.
1473
01:22:39,140 --> 01:22:41,150
Um, but I'm really lucky.
1474
01:22:41,170 --> 01:22:43,150
I, you know, I work
in the United States.
1475
01:22:43,170 --> 01:22:46,010
It's really bad form to
kill a journalist here.
1476
01:22:46,030 --> 01:22:48,170
Investigative journalism is hard
enough without having to worry,
1477
01:22:48,190 --> 01:22:51,050
do all that kind
of moral math, um,
1478
01:22:51,070 --> 01:22:52,200
physical risk.
1479
01:22:52,220 --> 01:22:53,210
It's something that war
correspondents are used to doing
1480
01:22:53,230 --> 01:22:55,060
all the time.
1481
01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:56,110
In a way, it kind of feels
like we're all war
1482
01:22:56,130 --> 01:22:57,230
correspondents now.
1483
01:23:00,190 --> 01:23:03,200
MARINA: This just shows how
vulnerable reporters around the
1484
01:23:03,220 --> 01:23:06,190
world working on
corruption issues are.
1485
01:23:09,150 --> 01:23:14,040
One answer to that vulnerability
is working in networks and
1486
01:23:14,060 --> 01:23:16,040
in teams.
1487
01:23:17,100 --> 01:23:20,030
You can't take
down 376 reporters.
1488
01:23:24,110 --> 01:23:27,200
PRESENTER: For
the Panama Papers,
1489
01:23:27,220 --> 01:23:30,110
reporting that explored the
hidden infrastructure and global
1490
01:23:30,130 --> 01:23:33,000
scale of offshore tax havens...
1491
01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:36,210
PRESENTER: The Pulitzer Prize
and explanatory reporting goes
1492
01:23:36,230 --> 01:23:41,010
to... The International
Consortium of Investigative
1493
01:23:41,030 --> 01:23:44,150
Journalists, McClatchy
and the Miami Herald.
1494
01:23:45,220 --> 01:23:49,180
MARISA: Just the idea that
we were able to-to finish the
1495
01:23:49,200 --> 01:23:55,180
Panama Papers despite all of the
doubts and publish it along with
1496
01:23:55,200 --> 01:23:57,210
all of these other
reporters all across the world.
1497
01:24:03,180 --> 01:24:06,220
JÓHANNES: And it felt so
surreal because the Pulitzer is
1498
01:24:07,010 --> 01:24:10,150
something you always
dream of as a journalist,
1499
01:24:10,170 --> 01:24:13,060
but as a German journalist, it's
something that you can normally
1500
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:15,110
not reach.
1501
01:24:21,170 --> 01:24:22,210
GERARD: It's nice to show that
journalists can actually work
1502
01:24:22,230 --> 01:24:24,220
together, and I think that's
something that we always thought
1503
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:25,160
would never happen.
1504
01:24:25,180 --> 01:24:27,200
You know,
journalists are selfish,
1505
01:24:27,220 --> 01:24:29,190
we don't share stories,
we don't share sources.
1506
01:24:29,210 --> 01:24:31,120
We've just proven
that that's wrong,
1507
01:24:31,140 --> 01:24:32,180
that, in fact, you can get a
better story sometimes if you
1508
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:35,130
do, if you do share.
1509
01:24:37,170 --> 01:24:41,030
MAN 9: You do need big,
international teams to cover
1510
01:24:41,050 --> 01:24:43,110
big, international topics.
1511
01:24:45,010 --> 01:24:46,180
KEVIN: Then it cleared the way
for us to spend the rest of the
1512
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:49,200
year really doing the kind of
stuff that you couldn't do on
1513
01:24:49,220 --> 01:24:51,160
the first day, but were just
as important as the first
1514
01:24:51,180 --> 01:24:53,080
day stories.
1515
01:24:59,050 --> 01:25:00,230
FREDERIK: I thought that this
would be the time that we can
1516
01:25:01,010 --> 01:25:05,150
refocus and go into the stories
we hadn't yet the time to
1517
01:25:05,170 --> 01:25:13,040
finish, but then we heard this
terrible news from Malta where
1518
01:25:13,060 --> 01:25:17,160
Daphne Galizia, um, was
killed in a-a car bombing.
1519
01:25:17,180 --> 01:25:21,120
NEWS REPORTER 43: The son of
the investigative journalist,
1520
01:25:21,140 --> 01:25:23,210
Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was
killed in a car bomb attack in
1521
01:25:23,230 --> 01:25:26,210
Malta has attacked the island
as a mafia state run by what he
1522
01:25:26,230 --> 01:25:28,080
called crooks.
1523
01:25:28,100 --> 01:25:30,200
His 53-year-old mother,
who was killed yesterday,
1524
01:25:30,220 --> 01:25:33,210
was known for her blog accusing
politicians of high-level
1525
01:25:33,230 --> 01:25:37,130
corruption and she led the
Panama Papers investigation into
1526
01:25:37,150 --> 01:25:39,080
corruption on the island.
1527
01:25:41,070 --> 01:25:42,210
MAN 10: We couldn't have been
more shocked when-when we found
1528
01:25:42,230 --> 01:25:44,090
out that Daphne, you
know, Matthew's mother,
1529
01:25:44,110 --> 01:25:46,120
had been blown up.
1530
01:25:46,140 --> 01:25:50,110
I mean, it just seemed so
senseless and-and crazy.
1531
01:25:52,130 --> 01:25:54,010
MATTHEW: It was,
the message was,
1532
01:25:54,030 --> 01:25:59,140
look, we can, we can do this
and we can get away with it.
1533
01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:02,170
We have, there's no deterrent.
1534
01:26:02,190 --> 01:26:07,100
We can strike whoever we want,
whenever we want and get away
1535
01:26:07,120 --> 01:26:10,060
with it.
1536
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:14,200
GERARD: The fact that
she was killed in Malta,
1537
01:26:14,220 --> 01:26:17,020
you're talking about
a European country.
1538
01:26:17,040 --> 01:26:21,080
That really shocked not
just us, but also the world.
1539
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,100
JACOB: You know, this,
what happened to Daphne,
1540
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:30,180
it-it never, we never thought
anything could happen in Malta.
1541
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,150
Daphne was, you
know, very much a,
1542
01:26:32,170 --> 01:26:33,230
a fearless investigator.
1543
01:26:34,010 --> 01:26:37,170
You know, a, a lone, a
lone voice in a sense.
1544
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:40,020
She was very frustrated
with-with mainstream media.
1545
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:41,140
I don't know.
1546
01:26:41,160 --> 01:26:45,150
People just gravitated
towards her blog naturally.
1547
01:26:46,040 --> 01:26:47,180
JULIETTE: Daphne was
fierce, and she was a blogger,
1548
01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:49,220
so she had a lot more freedom
than newspaper journalists in
1549
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:52,150
terms of expressing her
opinion, and she used it.
1550
01:26:52,170 --> 01:26:55,150
DAPHNE: My article went
up at 7:00 in the evening,
1551
01:26:55,170 --> 01:26:58,200
and two and a half hours
later, by half past nine,
1552
01:26:58,220 --> 01:27:03,020
the police are already at my
gate with a warrant for my
1553
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:07,100
arrest issued by a magistrate
within two and a half hours.
1554
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:12,230
The police cannot understand why
I will not abide by the law and
1555
01:27:13,010 --> 01:27:16,100
sit at home quietly and not
write anything about politics.
1556
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:21,110
FREDERIK: She was one addressing
things many politicians did not
1557
01:27:21,130 --> 01:27:23,110
want to hear.
1558
01:27:25,020 --> 01:27:29,000
She wrote about corruption
at the highest levels
1559
01:27:29,020 --> 01:27:30,190
of government.
1560
01:27:30,210 --> 01:27:31,170
You know, I
mean I always get,
1561
01:27:31,190 --> 01:27:34,030
like, you know,
the-the usual people,
1562
01:27:34,050 --> 01:27:36,130
"Don't worry, the
truth will come to light.
1563
01:27:36,150 --> 01:27:37,210
Good always wins.
1564
01:27:37,230 --> 01:27:39,130
There will be justice."
1565
01:27:39,150 --> 01:27:41,190
My mother always
thought that was bullshit.
1566
01:27:43,220 --> 01:27:45,150
JULIETTE: She
wasn't just outspoken.
1567
01:27:45,170 --> 01:27:48,010
She was effective, and I think
that's why she's-she's
1568
01:27:48,030 --> 01:27:50,020
been killed.
1569
01:27:54,020 --> 01:27:56,010
What was
particularly shocking was that,
1570
01:27:56,030 --> 01:28:00,000
for some people, um, this
assassination was a-a cause
1571
01:28:00,020 --> 01:28:01,050
of celebration.
1572
01:28:01,070 --> 01:28:05,160
One police officer actually
tweeted that he was pleased that
1573
01:28:05,180 --> 01:28:09,030
this had happened and-and called
her "cow dung" the day after,
1574
01:28:09,050 --> 01:28:13,000
so you know, there wasn't
universal condemnation of this
1575
01:28:13,020 --> 01:28:14,010
act in Malta.
1576
01:28:14,030 --> 01:28:16,150
Perhaps there should have been.
1577
01:28:17,110 --> 01:28:18,210
NEWS REPORTER 44: A court in
Malta has charged three men with
1578
01:28:18,230 --> 01:28:21,080
the murder of
Daphne Caruana Galiza.
1579
01:28:21,100 --> 01:28:23,200
Maltase media say the
authorities honed in on the
1580
01:28:23,220 --> 01:28:27,040
suspects following
telephone intercepts.
1581
01:28:27,060 --> 01:28:29,120
Police arrested 10 men on on
Monday in connection with
1582
01:28:29,140 --> 01:28:31,050
the killing.
1583
01:28:31,070 --> 01:28:35,020
Seven have been released on
bail pending further inquiries.
1584
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:38,060
MAN 11: It was
just all a big show.
1585
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:41,210
MATTHEW: I am quite confident
that they were the people who
1586
01:28:41,230 --> 01:28:45,220
executed the orders to
assassinate my mother,
1587
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:48,050
but my mother never
wrote about them,
1588
01:28:48,070 --> 01:28:52,040
she never investigated them,
she had no idea who they were.
1589
01:28:52,060 --> 01:28:55,190
They've probably never
even read what she wrote.
1590
01:28:57,070 --> 01:28:59,060
JACOB: They may have the
people who-who pushed a button,
1591
01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:01,060
who-who, you know,
who set off the bomb,
1592
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:02,220
but they're definitely
not the masterminds,
1593
01:29:03,000 --> 01:29:05,010
and they definitely, you know,
wouldn't have had the motive to
1594
01:29:05,030 --> 01:29:07,150
do it, so the big
question is, you know,
1595
01:29:07,170 --> 01:29:09,150
who ordered this
kill, and ultimately,
1596
01:29:09,170 --> 01:29:12,160
who paid them, as well?
1597
01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:17,160
MAN 10: The way it was done,
it was also a way of getting
1598
01:29:17,180 --> 01:29:19,130
sources to stop talking.
1599
01:30:02,220 --> 01:30:05,150
NEWS REPORTER 45: The two
founders of Panamanian law firm
1600
01:30:05,170 --> 01:30:09,020
Mossack Fonseca were arrested
after both were indicted on
1601
01:30:09,040 --> 01:30:11,000
charges of money laundering.
1602
01:31:14,150 --> 01:31:18,010
ROBERTO: Porcell, I think, is
trying to do what has to be
1603
01:31:18,030 --> 01:31:23,210
done, but the judiciary, which
is where she has to deposit
1604
01:31:23,230 --> 01:31:31,090
her investigations, has zero
credibility at this point.
1605
01:31:32,060 --> 01:31:36,080
If you talk to Panamanians
out there about this,
1606
01:31:36,100 --> 01:31:39,010
the reaction is
"No pasa nada"...
1607
01:31:39,030 --> 01:31:41,050
Nothing will happen.
1608
01:31:41,070 --> 01:31:42,010
I don't think that's right.
1609
01:31:42,030 --> 01:31:45,000
I think that
something will happen.
1610
01:31:45,020 --> 01:31:48,210
We have an ex-president of
the Supreme Court in jail.
1611
01:31:48,230 --> 01:31:52,010
We have an
ex-president in jail in Miami.
1612
01:31:52,030 --> 01:31:54,170
I mean, there are
things happening.
1613
01:31:59,070 --> 01:32:01,120
I feel that
somewhere along the way,
1614
01:32:01,140 --> 01:32:04,230
in incremental bits, we'll
be solving these problems.
1615
01:32:05,010 --> 01:32:09,180
It's just a, a human problem
that we have to face all over
1616
01:32:09,200 --> 01:32:12,040
the world.
1617
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:16,020
FREDERIK: This is
not only about Panama,
1618
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:20,020
that's a worldwide problem,
and if it should get solved,
1619
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:22,030
it's something that has to
be addressed in the U.S.,
1620
01:32:22,050 --> 01:32:23,170
as well.
1621
01:32:23,190 --> 01:32:24,230
KEVIN: One of the things
that led to change on the U.S.
1622
01:32:25,010 --> 01:32:30,000
end that both Nevada and Wyoming
changed their laws based on some
1623
01:32:30,020 --> 01:32:32,100
of what we were able to show
about these nominee directors
1624
01:32:32,120 --> 01:32:34,150
that really weren't contacts.
1625
01:32:34,170 --> 01:32:37,110
And the UK government is now
supporting efforts to force
1626
01:32:37,130 --> 01:32:41,010
transparency in overseas
tax havens that do that by
1627
01:32:41,030 --> 01:32:44,020
introducing public registries
across the
1628
01:32:44,040 --> 01:32:44,110
commonwealth countries.
1629
01:32:48,130 --> 01:32:53,110
MARINA/EMILIA:
1630
01:32:53,130 --> 01:32:55,100
WOMAN 5: Panama Papers
hasn't ended yet.
1631
01:32:55,120 --> 01:32:56,120
It's still going.
1632
01:32:56,140 --> 01:33:01,010
Every week, there's a new
Panama Papers development.
1633
01:33:01,030 --> 01:33:04,040
Reporters are still in the
database and are still searching
1634
01:33:04,060 --> 01:33:08,070
and still finding
things that we missed.
1635
01:33:10,180 --> 01:33:13,120
MARISA: While there have been a
lot of investigations launched,
1636
01:33:13,140 --> 01:33:17,220
including in the U.S., and there
have been a number of people all
1637
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:20,110
across the world who
have been arrested,
1638
01:33:20,130 --> 01:33:25,070
there has been an element of
inaction in areas that really
1639
01:33:25,090 --> 01:33:29,080
matter, reform that would
prevent these offshores from
1640
01:33:29,100 --> 01:33:32,080
being created in the
way they are created.
1641
01:33:32,100 --> 01:33:33,110
There was a lot
of talk about it,
1642
01:33:33,130 --> 01:33:38,100
but yet, that hasn't
happened in a significant way.
1643
01:33:40,170 --> 01:33:41,200
MAN 10: I think history has
shown that as important as
1644
01:33:41,220 --> 01:33:45,160
Panama Papers are in revealing
this kind of underbelly of
1645
01:33:45,180 --> 01:33:49,100
global finance and how it
ties into the whole inequality
1646
01:33:49,120 --> 01:33:52,140
question, I think it also
will probably lead to a
1647
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:53,170
better mousetrap.
1648
01:33:53,190 --> 01:33:54,170
GERARD: Will the scams go on?
1649
01:33:54,190 --> 01:33:56,010
Will there be new ways found?
1650
01:33:56,030 --> 01:33:57,170
Yes, of course.
1651
01:33:57,190 --> 01:33:59,210
You know, they, it-it, you know,
the world will probably just get
1652
01:33:59,230 --> 01:34:01,030
a bit more sophisticated.
1653
01:34:01,050 --> 01:34:04,050
MATTHEW: There's a democratic
backsliding in the world in
1654
01:34:04,070 --> 01:34:08,120
general, and I think that this
is taking journalism down
1655
01:34:08,140 --> 01:34:09,190
with it.
1656
01:34:09,210 --> 01:34:13,000
It's kind of strange
that, at that same time,
1657
01:34:13,020 --> 01:34:16,130
it's a golden age for
investigative journalism.
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Our work has never been
as important as it is now.
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JOHN: But when it
takes a whistleblower to sound
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the alarm, it is cause
for even greater concern.
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It signals that democracy's
checks and balance have all
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failed, that the
breakdown is systemic,
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and that severe instability
could be just around the corner.
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