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Additionally, documents compiled by study participants include references to 130 billionaires from Forbes’ list of the richest people on the planet.
In a study called Pandora Papers, some 600 journalists from 117 countries analyzed nearly 12 million documents. The media involved in this work began to publish the information collected on the night of October 3.
“The study shows how state leaders, billionaires and criminals used offshore schemes to hide their assets,” writes The New York Times.
The BBC, for its part, claims that, according to the information collected, King Abdullah II of Jordan secretly acquired properties in the United Kingdom and the United States worth 70 million euros. pound sterling.
The journalists also claim that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his family “secretly participated in transactions in the UK for more than 400 million. pound sterling ‘. The study authors counted 17 real estate properties bought by Aliyev in Britain.
The investigation also says that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sold his stake in a secret offshore company just before winning the 2019 elections.
