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This is going to be another Panama files isn't it? Overwhelming evidence that billionaires are shits and world governments everywhere collectively do fuck all about it.
I'm certain some people will go to jail.
You can't just release information about politicians and billionaires and not go to jail.
I see what you did there.. 😂
well, cars might explode.
Windows will be turned into exits
Just switch to Linux already!
I am so fucking tired...
I mean, that's sort of a gimmie with swasticars.
Cars that aren't suicidal with a desire to take others with them.
I think they were able to recoup a few billion in taxes or something, but like, no arrests or anything. I think one person got killed exposing it too.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/panama-papers-taxes-recovered-1.7501312
Yes, journalist Daphne Galizia was murdered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia#Panama_Papers
Can people just stop spreading this demoralizing nonsense? Maybe it's not instant-world-changing, but it's definitely not "fuck all" either.
https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/five-years-later-panama-papers-still-having-a-big-impact/
From your links:
Original indictment:
Make it make sense
"Not world changing" is insulting for the amount of money these people hid to avoid taxes.
Yeah can't make sense of your last comment, or maybe you misunderstood something?
I'm saying the impact of Panama paper surely wasn't instant-world-changing that you might wish for, the world simply doesn't work that way. Researches, investigations, lawsuits, trails, laws and legislation tooks years or even decades to conclude.
Joking about nothing has been done after Panama paper every time everywhere the topic came up over and over and over again is tiring and insulting to the hard working people around the world fighting against corruptions and billionaires FOR YOU every day every night.
After FTX imploded, Sam Bankman Fried was indicted within weeks and in prison within months. The Enron investigation and indictments came down four years after the company officially filed bankruptcy in December of 2001.
To claim prosecutions under the Panama Papers (or the Trump indictments or the Sackler oxycotin scandal or the Epstein case dismissal or the SEC investigations into Tesla or any number of other endlessly delayed prosecutions) required decades to wrap up only illustrates a deliberate attempt by domestic governments to slow roll and bury investigations that prosecutors had no personal interest in pursuing.
Ramón Fonseca Mora, the central figure behind Mossack Fonseca, was let out on bail a few months after his arrest and remained unconvicted until his death. How is that not a joke to you?
Because that's not what I said at all?
Of course there are far too many frustrating cases than we wish for but still
"Joking about NOTHING has been done after Panama paper every time everywhere the topic came up over and over and over again is tiring and insulting to the hard working people around the world fighting against corruptions and billionaires FOR YOU every day every night."
Maybe instead of whining about Panama paper doesn't do as much as one can fantasies, read the report I linked again, focus on what has been done, and pay some respect to the people fighting for you this time?
The man running the law firm that managed the fraud never saw a trial, much less a conviction.
Your article of "Um, actually!"s doesn't change that.
Technically only half true. They know, but they're not doing fuck all about it, they're murdering the journalists that expose the rampant corruption.
Its fake
I mean world governments are run by and for billionaires. People gotta pitchfork if they want something done about it.
Everybody already knew Russia was hot assfire.