Can the corporate-owned media really hold the corporate world to account? Plus, Julian Assange on the Panama Papers.
In this special edition of The Listening Post, we look at the Panama Papers, the world's largest ever data leak that has been exposing how the RICH
and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth.
and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth.
The papers - 11.5MILLION documents in all - have revealed how Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm, allegedly helped current and former world leaders, as well as businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars, evade or avoid tax via anonymously owned shell companies and offshore accounts.
documents in all - have revealed how Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm, allegedly helped current and former world leaders, as well as businessmen, criminals, celebrities and sports stars, evade or avoid tax via anonymously owned shell companies and offshore accounts.
In terms of the size of the leak and the scale of the journalistic collaboration, the story has garnered wall-to-wall coverage and dominated the front pages of newspapers across the world.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, a non-profit group in the US, coordinated the reporting with 376 journalists from 109 news organisations and 76 countries poring over the files.
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