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Deoffshorization in Bivian

April 7, 2013 Vladimir Volkov

The sensation broke out last Wednesday. On this day, several Western media outlets with reference to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) - an “independent network of reporters based in Washington” - published a seven of materials on the “innovator project”, as a result Holders of offshore assets around the world. According to the British The Guardian, which took the most active participation in the project, the list of people's indicated persons extends "from presidents to plutocrats, daughters, notorious dictators and British millionaires accused of concealing assets from their ex -wife."

All this, the newspaper reports, became possible as a result of a massive information leak. Correspondence (more than two million emails) and other documents fell into the hands of researchers. Most of them are related to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and their secretive residents - we are talking about financial data for 10 years, the volume of which exceeds 200 gigabytes, but also to other offshore jurisdictions - Singapura, Gong Kong, Cook Islands. In the general complexity, ICIJ has information about 130 thousand inhabitants of “tax harbors” from 170 countries of the world.

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