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- [Voiceover] From
UFO's to psychic powers,
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and government conspiracies,
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history is riddled with
unexplained events.
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(doorbell)
You can turn back now,
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or learn the stuff they
don't want you to know.
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Here are the facts.
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Sometime more than a year
before April of 2016,
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an anonymous source,
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identifying him or herself as John Doe,
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contacted a German paper named
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the Sรผddeutsche Zeitung
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with an extraordinary offer.
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This source claimed to
have access to around
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2.6 terabytes of secret
data from a Panama based
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law firm named Mossack Fonseca,
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which sold offshore
companies around the globe.
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The source did not want money
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for this revelatory information.
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Nor did the source want fame.
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Instead, they would only say
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they believed the firm was doing
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real harm to the world,
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and wanted this harm to cease.
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The German paper accepted the leak.
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They partnered with the
International Consortium
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of Investigative Journalists,
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and spent around a year
analyzing the documents
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before going public with the largest leak
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in human history.
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So what, exactly, did they find?
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Here's where it gets crazy.
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At the time of this recording,
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the world is still analyzing this data,
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and what researchers have found so far
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is profoundly disturbing.
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In the documents, which range
from the 1970's to 2015,
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Mossack Fonseca is shown to function,
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as the German paper notes,
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"as a hub of a global
industry led by major banks,
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"legal firms, and asset
management companies
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"secretly stewarding the estates
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"of the world's rich and famous
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"from politicians, FIFA
officials, fraudsters,
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"and drug smugglers,
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"to celebrities and
professional athletes."
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In short, to hide,
transfer, and in some cases,
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to clean dirty money.
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By April 3rd of 2015,
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the news had reached
populations in countries
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around the planet.
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Heads of State and
industry were implicated,
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as well as kings.
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Many of these individuals
worked through their relatives,
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squirreling away cash and, in some cases,
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circumventing sanctions.
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Sources traced money to Vladmir Putin,
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the Prime Minister of Iceland,
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heads of Chinese government,
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Middle Eastern royalty,
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Indian celebrities,
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and even Jackie Chan.
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These powerful people
worked with Mossack Fonseca
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to create shell companies
in other countries,
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informally known as tax havens,
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an act which, in itself,
is not inherently illegal.
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However, journalists note the majority
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of these operations were designed to hide
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the identity of the actual owners,
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in other words, the
people hiding the money.
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Some of these clients are
out-and-out criminals,
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like bank robbers and mafioso.
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Other shell companies
appear to hold bribery money
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from corrupt officials.
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In some cases, this
means the leaks are proof
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of illegal financial activity
by some of the worlds
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wealthiest groups and individuals.
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Others think there may be
more to the story, however,
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asking why comparatively few
Americans have been named
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in the leak so far.
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Could this be a result of a conspiracy
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by one group to expose the activities
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of a geo-political rival?
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Does the timing have anything
to do with the recent
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Unaoil scandal?
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At this point, it's hard to say.
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Yet as journalists continue to dig,
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and the average citizens of
countries around the world
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begin asking tougher questions
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about what their leaders
do behind the scenes,
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one thing's becoming abundantly clear.
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Mossack Fonseca and its
over 300,000 clients
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have something they
don't want you to know.
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And we've just begun
to scratch the surface.
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To learn more about the emerging scandal
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surrounding the Panama Papers,
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tune in to our audio podcast
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on stufftheydontwantyoutoknow.com.
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