By Alalam
May 09, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Alalam" - Isaac Herzog, member of the Knesset and Chairman of
the Israeli Labor party, revealed that Saudi king Salman bin Abdulaziz financed
the election campaign of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Arabic
Almasdar news quoted from Panama Papers.
“In March 2015, King Salman has deposited eighty million dollars to support Netanyahu’s campaign via a Syrian-Spanish person named Mohamed Eyad Kayali.
The money was deposited to a company’s account in British Virgin Islands owned by Teddy Sagi, an Israeli billionaire and businessman, who has allocated the money to fund the campaign Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”, Herzog cited a leaked Panama Paper.
“In March 2015, King Salman has deposited eighty million dollars to support Netanyahu’s campaign via a Syrian-Spanish person named Mohamed Eyad Kayali.
The money was deposited to a company’s account in British Virgin Islands owned by Teddy Sagi, an Israeli billionaire and businessman, who has allocated the money to fund the campaign Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”, Herzog cited a leaked Panama Paper.
Update: Boing Boing - Opposition Labour leader Isaac Herzog, identified in the original
article as the source accusation denies having made the accusation; and called the websites claiming he did "unsane."
It's hard to enumerate all the people to whom this would be politically
significant: the Israeli opposition; leadership rivals from Benjamin
Netanyahu's own party; Islamists who are at odds with wahabiism; fighters in
Yemen and other territories where Saudi is fighting direct or proxy wars, and
the citizens and elites of those countries.
“In March 2015, King Salman has deposited eighty million dollars to
support Netanyahu’s campaign via a Syrian-Spanish person named Mohamed Eyad
Kayali. The money was deposited to a company’s account in British Virgin
Islands owned by Teddy Sagi, an Israeli billionaire and businessman, who has
allocated the money to fund the campaign Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu”, Herzog cited a leaked Panama Paper.
Panama Papers Data Leak : King of
Saudi Arabia sponsored Netanyahu’s campaign [Zen Adra/Al Masdar News]
(via Naked Capitalism)
(Image: Flickr - Benjamin Netanyahu with
Greek PM, Primeministergr, CC-BY-SA)
A joint report by RNZ, TVNZ and Nicky Hager accuses New Zealand of being
at the heart of a gigantic money-laundering operation for the corrupt elites of
Latin America.
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Panama Papers whistleblower issues statement, naming and shaming failed
states and institutions
"John Doe," the mysterious whistleblower who released the largest-ever leak of confidential documents
in world history -- papers from the
Panamanian law firm Mossack-Fonseca, a key player in the offshore dark money
industry -- has published their first-ever public statement.
The first thing you'll notice in reading the 1,400 word manifesto is that
Doe is eloquent. Like Snowden and a few others from the society of
modern whistleblowing, Doe writes beautifully, passionately, and intelligently
about their motives. They have clearly spent a lot of time thinking about the
information they had access to, and what it meant for the world, and what it
would mean for them to come forward with it, risking everything.
Doe offers a general critique of secretive finance capitalism, and cites
specifics from the Panama Papers showing that Mossack-Fonseca wasn't just
involved in helping the wealthy avoid taxes and starve countries of the
treasure they needed to provide the most basic services -- they also knowingly laundered money used by rich paedophiles to traffick in 13 year old sex slaves.
Doe isn't content to discuss their general grievances with corruption: in
laser-focused specific detail, they cite policies and actions from specific
governments and politicians (the UK Conservative party, David Cameron, NZ Prime
Minister John Key, a few others) and how their hypocrisy motivated them to act.
He also discusses the role of whistleblowing in modern society. Running
through the punishments visited upon leakers like Snowden (but also Luxleaks'
Antoine Deltour and UBS leaker Bradley Birkenfeld), Doe says that they chose
not to go public specifically because they believed that the same leaders who'd
made the moral compromises that enabled the corruption of offshore finance were
also committed to destroying the lives of those who came forward with
information about the most urgent, terrible crimes.
Doe cheers on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
for refusing to share the raw Panama Papers with law enforcement, as is fitting
for independent journalists, and goes on to offer to turn over those documents
to law enforcement independently, but with the caveats about the risks to their
own freedom.
Doe also disavows being a spy of any kind, saying that they never worked
or contracted for any spy agency or government.
And while it’s one thing to extol the virtues of government transparency
at summits and in sound bites, it’s quite another to actually implement it. It
is an open secret that in the United States, elected representatives spend the
majority of their time fundraising. Tax evasion cannot possibly be fixed while
elected officials are pleading for money from the very elites who have the
strongest incentives to avoid taxes relative to any other segment of the
population. These unsavoury political practices have come full circle and they
are irreconcilable. Reform of America’s broken campaign finance system cannot
wait.
Of course, those are hardly the only issues that need fixing. Prime
Minister John Key of New Zealand has been curiously quiet about his country’s
role in enabling the financial fraud Mecca that is the Cook Islands. In
Britain, the Tories have been shameless about concealing their own practices
involving offshore companies, while Jennifer Shasky Calvery, the director of
the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network at the United States Treasury, just
announced her resignation to work instead for HSBC, one of the most notorious
banks on the planet (not coincidentally headquartered in London). And so the
familiar swish of America’s revolving door echoes amidst deafening global
silence from thousands of yet-to-be-discovered ultimate beneficial owners who
are likely praying that her replacement is equally spineless. In the face of
political cowardice, it’s tempting to yield to defeatism, to argue that the
status quo remains fundamentally unchanged, while the Panama Papers are, if
nothing else, a glaring symptom of our society’s progressively diseased and
decaying moral fabric.
But the issue is finally on the table, and that change takes time is no
surprise. For fifty years, executive, legislative, and judicial branches around
the globe have utterly failed to address the metastasizing tax havens spotting
Earth’s surface. Even today, Panama says it wants to be known for more than
papers, but its government has conveniently examined only one of the horses on
its offshore merry-go-round.
Find out who’s behind almost 320,000 offshore companies and trusts from the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations.https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/
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