Friday, 21 September, 2018

The Paradise Papers

The Paradise Papers

Posted on Monday, 6 November, 2017Monday, 6 November, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

The Paradise Papers.

The Paradise Papers consist of 1.4 terabytes of information. In total there are 13.4 million individual and company files from 1950 to 2016. 6.8 million files are from a law firm known as Appleby. The principal issue with such offshore investment operations is tax avoidance, but not all of these schemes are criminally liable if they are legitimately operated under the laws of its respective governmental agencies. The German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung (the same company that received the Panama Papers in 2016) was given sight of these Papers and it collaborated with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a U.S.A.-based organization. There were 96 media partners, with a total of 381 journalists from 67 countries, who analysed the data. The material consisted of 1.7GB WikiLeaks files dated 2010, 3.3GB HSBC files from 2015, 4.4GB Luxembourg 2014 tax files, and 260GB offshore secrets dated 2013. The following corporate registries were listed with the government of Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Labuan, Lebanon, Malta, the Marshall Islands, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, and Vanuatu. Appleby clients numbered more than 120,000 clients, originating as far flung as China and Hong Kong, with the largest concentration being from the USA (30,000). It also listed 25,000 offshore entities.

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Cosmic Collision Forges Galactic Ring.
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Delayed due to inclement weather, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) now is targeting 1:52 p.m. EDT Saturday, Sept. 22 (2:52 a.m. Sept. 23 in Japan), for the launch of its unpiloted H-II Transfer Vehicle-7 (HTV-7) cargo spacecraft.
NASA Updates Preview Briefing for International Space Station Spacewalks, Live Coverage Wednesday, 19 September, 2018
Experts from NASA will preview two upcoming spacewalks outside the International Space Station to continue upgrades to the orbiting laboratory’s power system in a briefing at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 27, at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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Malawi Thursday, 20 September, 2018
Latest update: Summary - addition of information; there are demonstrations planned on the morning of Friday 21 September 2018 in Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu and Zomba; you should avoid all demonstrations and large crowds, plan alternative routes where possible, remain vigilant and follow the advice of the local security authorities
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Guinea-Bissau Thursday, 20 September, 2018
Latest update: This advice has been reviewed and reissued without amendment
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Designed by Alma Pihl, the only female and one of the best known Fabergé workmasters, as a gift to Maria Feodorovna by her son, Tsar Nicholas II, in 1913. The exterior of the egg resembles frost and ice crystals formed on clear glass. It is studded with 1,660 diamonds and is made from quartz, platinum, and orthoclase. The surprise is a miniature flower basket studded with 1,378 diamonds and is made from platinum and gold, while the flowers are made of white quartz and the leaves are made of demantoid. The flowers lie in gold moss. The egg is 102 millimetres high. It was reported that the buyer was Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, who paid $9.6 million in 2002.

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