early years
Fidentia fraud
Franchise
FRO Inc. case
Gordon partnership
growing scrutiny of
growth of
HSBC and
Iceland and
ICIJ releases database of
IRS investigations and
Luxembourg operations
Microsoft case
Mossfon Trust and
Nevada operation
9/11 attacks and
Niue companies
nominee directors
offices raided after Panama Papers release
Offshore Leaks and
Panama Papers and
PEPs and
Prometheus and
Russia and
Süddeutsche Zeitung story on
Trump’s ties to
trusts
2008 financial crisis and
U.S. market
UBS and
video
Mossfon Trust
Mubarak, Alaa
Mubarak, Hosni
Munich
Murphy, Richard
Nabila
Nación, La
Nahmad, David
Nahmad, Ezra
Nahmad, Joe
Namibia
National Security Agency
Nauru
Nautilus Trustees Limited
Nazarbayev, Nursultan
Nazism
Neo4J
Netherlands Antilles
Nevada
Mossfon operation
Newfoundland
New Jersey
New York
banking
mafia
9/11 attacks
real estate
New York Times
Panama Papers and
New Zealand
Nigeria
bribery scheme
9/11 attacks
Niue
tax haven
Niue International Business Company Act
Nixon, Richard
nominee beneficial owners
nominee directors
Nordea Bank
Noriega, Manuel
Norman Island
Northrup
North Star Overseas Enterprises
Norway
Nougayrède, Natalie
Nuix
Obama, Barack
approach to secrecy world
reaction to Panama Papers
Obermaier, Frederik
Obermayer, Bastian
Odebrecht
OECD
crusade against tax havens
Offshore Incorporations
Offshore Leaks
beginnings of
China and
database
Mossfon and
publication of
offshore shell companies
art trade and
banking and
Bank Rossiya network
British Virgin Islands
China
drug trade and
HSBC and
Iceland
IRS investigations
Lux Leaks
Mossfon Trust and
Nigerian bribery scheme
Niue
nominee directors
Offshore Leaks
Panama
Panama Papers and
Prometheus project
Russia and
signed blank documents
Swiss Leaks
as tax havens
Trump and
trusts
UBS and
Wheaton case
See also tax evasion and havens
oil
Olesen, Alexa
Olszewski, Marianna
Omicron Collections Limited
Operation Tradewinds
Operation Virus
OVE Financial
Owens, Ramsés
Fidentia fraud and
Mossfon Trust and
Oxfam
Ozero
Ozon
Paesa Sánchez, Francisco
País, El
Pakistan
Palmer, James
Panama
corporation law
coup of 1931
demise of Mossfon and
drug trade
foreign ships registered in
former Nazis in
foundations
government corruption
Mossfon offices raided
1989 invasion
“offshore” jurisdiction
oligarchy
politics
real estate
tax havens and offshore system
trusts
Panama Canal Zone
Panama City
Panama Papers
database posted online
Iceland and
John Doe source
naming of
Prometheus and
publication of
Pulitzer Prize for
reaction to
revelations
Russia and
Trump and
Pan World Investments Inc.
Papua New Guinea
Paris
Charlie Hebdo massacre
Patriot Act
Pelosi, Nancy
Pentagon Papers
PEPs
PepsiCo
Perrin, Edouard
Peru
Peskov, Dmitry
Peters, Richard
Petrobras
Petrol Ofisi
Petrov, Gennady
Philippines
Picasso, Pablo
Pilet, François
Pinochet, Augusto
Pla Horrit, José Maria
Plattner, Titus
Porcell, Kenia
Porritt, Gary
Portcullis TrustNet
Porteous, Kimberley
Prensa, La
Panama Papers and
Prevezon Holdings
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Prohibition
Prometheus
Lillehammer conference
parallel processing
prostitution
Pulitzer Prize
Putin, Vladimir
background of
Bank Rossiya network
Mossfon files and
Panama Papers and
Trump and
2016 U.S. election and
Qatar
Quirk, James
Quirk, Matthew
Reagan, Ronald
Red Cross
Reeves, Dan
registration fees
René, France-Albert
Ren TV
Republic National Bank of New York
Reuters
Reykjavík
Reykjavik Media
Rich, Denise
Rich, Marc
Riggs Bank
Ringier
Road Town
Rodríguez, Rolando
Roldugin, Sergei
Romney, Cyril B.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosebud Consultants
Rosneft
Ross, SS
Rossotti, Charles
Rostec
Rotenberg, Arkady
Rotenberg, Boris
Roth, William
Rothberg, Michael
Royal Bank of Scotland
Russell Properties
Russia
banking
Bank Rossiya network
collapse of Soviet Union
corruption
economy
mafia
Magnitsky case
Mossfon and
oil
oligarchy
Panama Papers and
politics
real estate
sanctions on
spy network
tax havens and offshore system
television
Trump and
2016
U.S. election and
World War II
Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus (RCB)
Rybolovlev, Dmitry
Ryle, Gerard
Falciani data and
growth plan for ICIJ
Lux Leaks
Offshore Leaks
Panama Papers
Süddeutsche Zeitung Mossfon story and
Swiss Leaks
Sachs, Gunter
Safra, Edmond
Safra Republic Holdings
Saint Moritz
Saint Petersburg
Saint Thomas
Saint Ursula
Samoa
Sandalwood Continental
Sangajav, Bayartsogt
Santa Fé
Sardarov, Rashid
Sargasso Trustees Limited
Sater, Felix
Saudi Arabia
Sberbank
Schilis-Gallego, Cécile
Schneider, Jerome
Scott, Vianca
Seattle
secrecy world
art trade
banking
British Virgin Islands and
China and
decline of
Iceland and
Offshore Leaks
Panama Papers
Russia and
Trump’s role in
trusts
See also global elite; money laundering; offshore shell companies; specific countries, companies, and investigations; tax evasion and havens
Segnini, Giannina
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Sequoia Treuhand Trust
Seychelles
tax havens
Shallop, Emmanuel
Shamalov, Kirill
Shamalov, Nikolai
Sharif, Nawaz
shelf companies
Shell Oil
Shireburn Limited
Shleynov, Roman
Shnaider, Alexander
Shorex conference
Shvets, Yuri
Shyfrin, Eduard
Siemens
Sierra Leone
signed blank documents
Simon, Adrian
Simsbury International Corp.
Singapore
Singer, Paul
Singh, Subhash
60 Minutes
Skuratov, Yury
slavery
Snowden, Edward
soccer
Sochi Olympic Games
Société Générale
Sociétés 6
Soir, Le
Solomon, John
Sonnette Overseas
Sotheby’s
Sousa, Carlos
South Africa
Fidentia fraud
Southport Management Services Limited
Sovereign Society
Soviet Union, collapse of
See also Russia
Spain
Spiegel, Der
Spink and Son
Sputnik
Standard Oil
Stanhope Investments
State Department, U.S.
Stefánsson, Bardi
Steinmetz, Benjamin
Steinmetz family
Stettiner, Oscar
St. Peter’s Trust
Stuber, Laura
Sudan
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Commerzbank story
Mossfon Luxembourg story
Munich meeting
Panama Papers and
Sunbarn Limited
Sunday Times (London)
Supino, Pietro
SVG Investments
Sweden
Swinton International
Swiss Leaks
Switzerland
art trade
banking
Swiss Leaks
UBS scandal
Symonette, Sir Roland
Syria
Tages-Anzeiger
Taiwan
Tajideen, Kassim
Talara Holdings
Tamedia
Tanzania
tax evasion and havens
art trade and
Bahamas
banking and
Bank Rossiya network
British Virgin Islands
China
CIA and
Commerzbank raid
Delaware
Fidentia fraud
Germany
growing opposition to abuses
HSBC and
Iceland
IRS investigations
Lux Leaks
Mossfon Trust and
Nevada case
Niue
OECD crusade against
offshore companies as
offshore credit cards
Offshore Leaks investigation
Panama
Panama Papers and
Prometheus project
Russia
Swiss Leaks
tax avoidance vs.
Trump and
trusts and
UBS and
Wheaton case
See also offshore shell companies; specific countries, companies, and tax havens
Tax Justice Network
Temps, Le
terrorism
financing
9/11 attacks
Tesler, Jeffrey
Thailand
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Carmen “Tita”
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Hans Heinrich von
Tikhonova, Katerina
Timchenko, Gennady
Toronto, Trump hotel in
Torrijos, Omar
Tortola
tourism
Treasury Department, U.S.
Tricornio Holdings
Trident Trust Company
Triple Canopy
Trump, Donald J.
Azerbaijan and
brand
mafia ties
Mossfon ties
Panama Papers and
Putin and
real estate empire and foreign business partners
role in secrecy world
Russia and
tax evasion and
Turkey and
2016 election
war on journalists
Trump, Donald, Jr.
Trump, Ivana
Trump, Ivanka
Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku
Trump International Hotel & Tower Fort Lauderdale
Trump Ocean Club
Trump Organization
Trump SoHo
Trump Tower
Trump Towers Istanbul
Truskov, Andrey
trusts
in feudal England
law
Mossfon
secrecy
Tuppen, Ian
Turkey
Trump and
Twin Declarations of Trust
Twitter
2008 financial crisis
U.S. Virgin Islands
UBS
2009 scandal
Ukraine
ultimate beneficial owner
Union Club
United Arab Emirates
United Nations
Conference on Trade and Development
United States
anti-taxation movement
banking regulations
Bush administration
DEA
double tax treaty
FACTA
HSBC investigation
intelligence
Mossfon market in
9/11 attacks
offshore tax evasion investigations
Panama Papers and
postwar economy
sanctions on Russia
tax havens
trust laws
2008 financial crisis
2016 presidential election
UBS scandal
Universo, El
Uruguay
USA Corporate Services
Vanderbilt Management Group Limited
van
Gogh, Vincent
Vanora Foundation
Varela, Juan Carlos
Vásquez, Rita
VEB
Veles, SS
Venezuela
Panama Papers and
Veraguas
Vesco, Robert
Video International
Viner, Katharine
Visa
Voridis, Marie “Doda”
Voyager project
VTB
Walker Guevara, Marina
Wall Street Journal
Walter-Borjans, Norbert
Wang, Lijun
Washington, D.C.
Washington Post
Offshore Leaks story
Weibo
Wen Jiabao
West, Joe
Wheaton, Frank
Wheaton Industries
Whitebury Shipping Time-Sharing Limited
white gloves
WikiLeaks
Wilton Trading S.A.
Winterbotham Trust
Wintris Inc.
Wired
Worcester Equities
World Bank
World-Check
World War I
World War II
World Wildlife Fund
Wyoming
Xi Jinping
Xu Ming
Yalçındağ, Mehmet Ali
Yeltsin, Boris
Yewdale Limited
Yukos
Zamin Ferrous Limited
Zapopan
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh
Zeller, Alexandre
Zhang, Austin
Zihlmann, Oliver
Zollinger, Christoph
Zolty, André
Zuckerman, Mortimer
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Jake Bernstein was a senior reporter on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) team that broke the Panama Papers story. In 2017, the project won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and was a finalist in International Reporting. Bernstein earned his first Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting in 2011 for coverage of the financial crisis. He has written for The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, The Guardian, ProPublica, and Vice, and has appeared on the BBC, NBC, CNN, CNBC, PBS, and This American Life. He is the coauthor of Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency and lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
1. Nazis and Radical Priests
2. Tropical Paradises
3. Name of the Game
4. Rise of the Global Banksters
5. How to Beat the Game
6. Full Speed
7. The North Star
8. The Art of Secrecy
9. The Vikings Lose Their Ferraris
10. Combing the Monster
11. Journalistic Firepower
12. Profitable Princelings
13. Follow the Leaks
14. Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
15. Fortune Favors the Bold
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