16: Panamania
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
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🗓️ 15 April 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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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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