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Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

16: Panamania

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast

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4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 16. Richard Brooks and Solomon Hughes give the Private Eye take on the Panama Papers and offshore tax havens, PLUS Nick Newman on the art of Dave Snooty And His Pals. Free Definitely Legal And Perfectly Above Board British Virgin Island Company with every download!

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0:00.0

Ian, in the interests of transparency, will you be publishing?

0:03.6

No.

0:04.6

Right.

0:05.6

Page 94, the Private Eye Podcast.

0:07.8

Hello and welcome back to page 94.

0:10.8

My name is Andrew Hunter Murray, and this week we give you everything you need to know about offshore tax havens as well as Nick

0:16.9

Newman discussing drawing Dave Snooty and his new pals. There is also this noise and this one. So listen out for those. But before that, offshore tax havens.

0:29.9

The story of the Panama Papers has swept the world over the last couple of weeks.

0:34.1

You may have seen one of today's podcast guests on Panorama, or as literally nobody called it at the time, Panamanorama.

0:40.6

Here is former tax inspector turned private eye reporter Richard Brooks.

0:45.0

If you go back to the 20s and 30s really you could find a lot of wealthy Americans crooks,

0:51.0

mafiosi going to places like the Bahamas with their money and

0:56.2

those places started to look for a role and especially after the Second World War

1:02.4

particularly when a lot of the British colonies became independent or semi-independent and they became overseas territories,

1:10.0

they had to find a way of sustaining themselves and with the encouragement of our

1:16.6

government, our foreign office they went into financial services which has always just been in their case a euphemism for tax avoidance

1:26.7

tax evasion money laundering secrecy all those things we see now because of course there's no reason to go to these

1:35.2

places other than for those things. So you've actually seen these papers? Yeah I had

1:40.0

a look at the papers with the people from Panorama and there's a lot of it.

1:46.2

I mean there's 11 million documents most of which are sort of send you to sleep type material. We've reported a huge amount of evidence on particular

1:56.2

stories involving offshore companies in the last few years, big bribery scandals where kickbacks were paid through British Virgin Islands

2:05.5

companies and Cayman Islands companies and tax evasion through HSBC setting up

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