Pandora Papers

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🗓️ 15 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A massive leak of financial documents reveals hidden assets and deals of the world’s wealthy and powerful. With the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, FRONTLINE examines secret finance overseas and in the U.S.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.2	We also produce a podcast, the Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.3	Right now, here is the Pandora Papers.
0:20.8	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
0:26.4	Thank you. And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
0:30.6	Major support is provided by the Ford Foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide at FordFoundation.org.
0:39.6	Additional support is provided by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism.
0:45.1	The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed to building a more just, pertinent and peaceful world, more at MacFound.org.
0:53.1	Park Foundation dedicated to tightening public awareness of critical issues.
0:57.3	And by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Higgler,
1:02.3	and additional support from Koo and Patricia Ewing and from Laura Dubonis.
1:18.0	Washington, DC, late 2019.
1:30.2	The international consortium of investigative journalists began receiving a trove of leaked documents.
1:39.7	In all, nearly 12 million confidential financial files from firms that set up shell companies and offshore accounts for clients seeking to keep their wealth in the shadows.
1:53.9	The leaked records are called the Pandora Papers.
1:59.9	And they expose a financial system that shields the deals and assets of some of the world's richest and most powerful people.
2:08.4	We arrived at the conclusion pretty quickly that this was going to be bombshell material.
2:15.1	Well, if it's given of the international consortium of investigative journalists or ICIJ.
2:20.6	Bank accounts of politicians that showed tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets
2:26.3	that had never been publicly associated with these politicians or public figures before.
2:39.0	Over the past two years, journalists from 115 news organizations including Frontline have been examining the leaked documents, emails, spreadsheets, contracts.
2:52.2	I am Zach Tupinski, I'm based in Toronto, Canada.
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