[HN Gopher] Interview with the Panama Papers Whistleblower
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       Interview with the Panama Papers Whistleblower
        
       Author : tomohawk
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2022-07-23 20:21 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.spiegel.de)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.spiegel.de)
        
       | verisimi wrote:
       | The Russian government may want to kill him, but so should the
       | Ukrainian one, seeing as Zelensky's earlier offshore activities
       | are also detailed. No media outlets cover this though...
        
         | Gatsky wrote:
         | I think the difference is that the Russian kleptoautocracy
         | (hesitate to call it a government) do actually kill people they
         | don't like, and try hard to make it look like an assassination
         | by Russians.
        
       | ksaj wrote:
       | One of the people listed in the Panama Papers lives kitty-corner
       | from me. I don't know them, but I'm quite curious how someone
       | from my 'hood ends up on such such a list.
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       | I found him by searching for addresses close to mine back when
       | people were posting Panama Papers search engines.
        
         | weaksauce wrote:
         | i don't know the specifics of this particular person but not
         | all people in the panama papers are "evil" or dodging taxes but
         | just people that are high profile but need anonymity for one
         | reason or another. film crews use shell corps for legitimate
         | reasons because if the people they were coming to to rent a
         | venue or rent some stuff for a shoot were to know the reason
         | for the rental they would jack up the price to AAA blockbuster
         | movie prices instead of the normal rate. they probably should
         | be paying those blockbuster rates but it is not illegal per se.
        
           | boomboomsubban wrote:
           | Having a shell corporation isn't inherently illegal, but
           | having one in a different country is pretty damn sketchy. If
           | you're a film crew you could register a new local company to
           | get the same anonymity.
        
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