Panama Papers are a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca
that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore
companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors.
Comprising documents created since the 1970s, the 2.6 terabyte set was given by an anonymous source to the Süddeutsche Zeitung in August 2015 and subsequently to the US-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
The papers were distributed to and analyzed by about 400 journalists at
107 media organizations (including PREMIUM TIMES) in more than 80
countries.
Since April 4th when the first set were
released, PREMIUM TIMES has revealed prominent Nigerians with offshore
companies in tax havens.
Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote; President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki; convicted former governor of Delta State, James Ibori; former Senate President, David Mark; former Minister of Defence, General T.Y Danjuma; Founder, Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet T.B Joshua, the boss of Oando, Nigeria’s biggest indigenous oil firm, Wale Tinubu,
were said to operate or have operated offshore companies in tax havens
such as the British Virgin Islands, Panama, and Seychelles.
“The use of shell companies is not illegal and there are individuals and firms who incorporate them for purely legitimate purposes. Although, “some of them, who are public office holders, held the assets in violation of Nigerian law – failing to declare them to the Code of Conduct Bureau,” PREMIUM TIMES noted.
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