ARCHIVE: Pandora Papers: The Trillion Dollar Offshore Shadow Economy Exposed- ICIJ's Fergus Shiel

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FIRST AIRED: 06/10/2021. We firstly speak to Fergus Shiel of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on the release of the Pandora Papers, which implicate 366 high-level public officials and politicians and over 1000 companies in major tax evasion and the hiding of wealth. He discusses what the super-rich and these politicians have meant for the living standards of ordinary people globally, what the papers reveal about the level of financial corruption in Lebanon as 80% of the population struggle in poverty, the massive amount of Russian money ending up in London and the revelations that many in Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party have taken donations from Russian oligarchs, the revelations on Tony & Cherie Blair’s tax avoidance, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s offshore dealings and much more!

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