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  • #200940
    Andrew
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    Giant Unprecedented Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption. Prominent Costa Rican citizens also named in new offshore scandal..

    This week we see the results of of a [url=http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/]MASSIVE dump of data[/url], a ‘[url=https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-overview.html]Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption’[/url] “where millions of documents show heads of state, criminals and celebrities using secret hideaways in tax havens…”

    Why am I suspicious of all of this?

    1. Most of the foreign heads of state mentioned so far in this ‘scandal’ are enemies of the USA.

    2. So far I have been unable to find a single U.S. citizen mentioned although no doubt they will have to sacrifice one or two people later to make this look like a legitimate exposé.

    3. The source of this leak? IMHO it’s probably the CIA or another one of the many ‘intelligence’ agencies but, “[url=http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-03/unprecedented-leak-exposes-criminal-financial-dealings-some-worlds-wealthiest-people]The source wanted neither financial compensation nor anything else[/url] in return, apart from a few security measures.”

    How fucking noble of him to risk his life for this eh?

    4. While the USA itself has become ‘[url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-27/the-world-s-favorite-new-tax-haven-is-the-united-states]The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven[/url]’, it has always been very vocal and aggressive about trying to shut down “offshore tax havens.”

    It’s kind of like waterboarding torture, for example, although the Americans have sentenced people to death in the past for waterboarding, it’s OK and legal if they do it….

    “We punished people with 15 years of hard labor when waterboarding was used against Americans in World War II,” [url=http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/10/29/mukasey-wont-say-waterboarding-is-torture/]Said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy[/url] (D-Mass.)

    The following prominent [url=http://semanariouniversidad.ucr.cr/investigacion/empresarios-banqueros-costa-rica-refugian-fortunas-paraisos-fiscales/]Costa Rican citizens have been named[/url]:

    A la hora de los nombres costarricenses, en los archivos de Mossack Fonseca aparecen políticos como el diputado de Partido Movimiento Libertario, [b]Otto Guevara Guth[/b]; la ministra de Obras Públicas y Transportes durante la administración [b]Arias Sánchez[/b] (2006-2010), [b]Karla González Carvajal[/b]; el ministro de Hacienda de la administración [b]Calderón Fournier[/b] (1990-1994), [b]Gonzalo Fajardo[/b]; el exdirector de Tributación Directa, [b]Adrián Torrelba Navas[/b]; la ex primera dama [b]Dorís Yankelewitz[/b]; la exdiputada y exalcaldesa de Alajuela, [b]Joyce Zurcher[/b]; el exdiputado y exdefensor de los Habitantes, [b]Rodrigo Alberto Carazo[/b]; el periodista y exembajador de Costa Rica ante Naciones Unidas, [b]Eduardo Ulibarri[/b] y el actual viceministro de Transportes, [b]Sebastián Urbina Cañas[/b].

    También figuran en esos archivos la Ministra de Salud de la administración [b]Arias Sánchez[/b] (2006-2010), [b]María Luisa Ávila Agüero[/b]; el representante de Óscar Arias ante el directorio del PLN, [b]Alfredo Ortuño Víctory[/b]; el tesorero de la campaña de [b]Johnny Araya Monge[/b], [b]Orlando Guerrero Vargas[/b]; el banquero, ministro de Hacienda de la administración [b]Rodríguez Echeverría[/b] (1998-2002) y presidente de la junta directiva del medio digital CRHoy, [b]Leonel Baruch[/b]; el exministro de la Producción [b]Alfredo Volio Escalante[/b] y el CEO de Florida Ice & Farm, [b]Ramón Mendiola.[/b]

    Los archivos del bufete panameño están colmados, además, de correos y gestiones para grandes empresarios y banqueros de Costa Rica como el presidente la Constructora Meco, [b]Carlos Enrique Cerdas[/b], el gerente general de Productos de Concreto y Holcim Costa Rica, [b]Sergio Egloff[/b] y el banquero y expresidente de la UCCAEP, [b]Emilio Bruce Jiménez[/b]; el banquero y ministro de Obras Públicas de la administración Pacheco de la Espriella (2002-2006), [b]Javier Chaves Bolaños[/b]; el ex presidente la Confederación Costarricense de Fútbol, [b]Hermes Navarro[/b].

    Los registros filtrados documentan también la participación en corporaciones, fideicomisos y sociedades en Islas Vírgenes Británicas, Bahamas y Panamá del presidente la junta directiva del Grupo Nación, [b]Manuel Francisco Jiménez Echeverría[/b]; del ex presidente del Florida Ice & Farm y accionista relevante del Grupo Nación, [b]Rodolfo Jiménez Borbón[/b] y del exmiembro del comité de vigilancia de Grupo Nación y viceministro de Hacienda durante la administración Pacheco de la Espriella (2002-2006), [b]Carlos González Jiménez[/b].

    El caudal de documentos es elocuente al revelar los hilos de intercambio de correos electrónicos que permiten visualizar la evolución de las tareas que los abogados y funcionarios de Mossack Fonseca realizaban para sus clientes en Costa Rica.

    El eje central de esos contactos entre los beneficiarios finales de estos servicios y la firma panameña, eran bufetes en Costa Rica como [b]Facio y Cañas,[/b] Gonzalo Fajardo y Asociados, Zurcher Odio & Raven, el abogado y ministro de Seguridad durante la administración Figueres Olsen <1994-1998>, [b]Juan Diego Castro[/b] y el Bufete Arias y Muñoz, entre otros.

    [size=200]Bottom line? [/size]

    IMHO we can expect stricter controls on the movement of money internationally and this will be yet another example used as to why a ‘cashless society’ is the way to go, to A: ‘prevent money laundering’, B: to ‘eliminate’ fraud, corruption and tax evasion’ and of course C: ‘for your protection.’

    What do you think?

    Would love to hear your opinion…

    #200941
    BillNew
    Participant

    [quote=”Scott”]
    IMHO we can expect stricter controls on the movement of money internationally and this will be yet another example used as to why a ‘cashless society’ is the way to go, to A: ‘prevent money laundering’, B: to ‘eliminate’ fraud, corruption and tax evasion’ and of course C: ‘for your protection.’
    [/quote]

    Of course, you are right.

    It’s all about a way of thinking …

    Imagine that you and the wife are throwing a party and a short time into the party everyone starts wanting to leave?

    Do you …

    A) Search for the cause of the discontent and correct it so that folks will want to stay … or …

    B) Lock the doors and screw the windows shut so that they can’t get out ?

    The last bastion of hope for Europe was Germany …

    And now, with their plummeting birth rate and the way that Merkel stupidly opened their doors to scores of (at worst) terrorists and (at best) welfare baby-makers … you can pretty much write them off in about one generation …

    The situation in the US isn’t a great deal better and don’t think for a minute that folks high up in the government don’t see what’s coming.

    One in every two people in the US get some type of government assistance … whether is is SS, Medicare, Medicaid, EIC, SNAP, WIC … and the seemingly endless list goes on …

    Never forget … [B]Demography is Destiny[/B]

    Go to the Pew Foundation and research the numbers …

    Don’t worry about whether they are white or black or latino …

    Look at it based solely on a socioeconomic basis … and you will see the collapse coming …

    The US is desperate to trap “wealth” within it’s borders …

    They feel like they have a right to, since, after all, it is “their” money …

    Why do I say that? Well, if it was “your” money, it would have your name on it … but the money that you consider yours has their name on it ….

    [B]AND THEY WANT IT BACK!![/B]

    If you ever sit down and just think about how an economy works, you will realize that every dollar, that is not saved or exported, churns it’s way through the economy until it is consumed by taxes … i.e. they get their dollar back. The dollars that you saved, or exported, … they want those back too !

    #200942
    jamesguz
    Member

    nice analysis Scott, I think you are right to be suspicious of this leak.

    #200943
    davidd
    Member

    Scott

    I believe your 100% correct.. its obvious you have been around the block so you have a certain perspective.

    in other words

    you need to get up pretty early in the morning to pull one over scotts eyes lol

    I bet the CIA was involved

    #200944
    davidd
    Member

    all of this attention will only make it more difficult for us minions of the world to conduct banking.

    #200945
    Freedom-2020
    Member

    Thanks for this analysis. I think it right on the money. (no pun)

    This is another hint that the security agencies are running things these days. When they record every phone call, e-mail, wire transfer, and financial transaction worldwide – and have the ability to look inside any computer – they have the dirt on everybody in power and can pull strings at will.

    Plus, the IRS loves a big tax-related story every April.

    I had to smile at, (…someone already with dementia.) Not hard to find in the House of Lords. Tax evasion would be a lesser shame than the usual pedophilia that finally gets publicly exposed within months of the funeral.

    #200946
    BillNew
    Participant

    [quote=”Freedom-2020″]…would be a lesser shame than the usual pedophilia that finally gets publicly exposed within months of the funeral.[/quote]

    Social mores are in a constant state of flux …

    What was unacceptable yesterday, is tolerated today, and embraced as a preferred lifestyle tomorrow …

    In the 50s and 60s, living together outside of wedlock was unacceptable in the US. In the 80s and 90s, it was tolerated. The 2010 census showed, for the first time in history of the US, that there were more couples living together outside of wedlock than inside.

    As I understand the argument currently being purported on the world stage …

    [QUOTE]A person cannot help how they are born. They cannot control what they find sexually attractive or exciting. Therefore, they should not be persecuted, ostracized, ridiculed, or discriminated against for any particular orientation or preference.[/QUOTE]

    Where the bar is set today is quite unlikely to be where it is set tomorrow.

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