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PANAMA PAPERS

The financial center of Panama City, Panama, in 2019. Starting Monday, 27 people will be tried over charges connected to the "Panama Papers" case.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 8, 2024
'Panama Papers' trial to begin eight years after tax scandal
Twenty-seven people have been charged with money laundering in connection with the tax evasion scandal.
EDITORIALS
Aug 20, 2016
Stop international tax dodges
Efforts to crack down on tax havens is starting to pick up steam, and none too soon.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 6, 2016
Nobel winner Stiglitz quits Panama Papers probe, citing lack of transparency
The committee to investigate the lack of transparency in Panama's financial system itself lacks transparency, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Friday after resigning from the Panama Papers commission.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2016
Panama Papers link Japan's shady online brokers to tax havens
Investigation finds connections between tax havens and unauthorized online traders on the blacklist of Japan's financial regulator.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2016
OECD tax-dodging confab concludes with agreement to draft blacklist criteria
In effort to crack down on corporations and individuals that evade taxes overseas, representatives from 82 countries agreed to draft criteria that could be used to put non-cooperative nations and jurisdictions on an international blacklist.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2016
Nations discuss corporate tax avoidance at OECD meeting in Kyoto
Representatives of more than 80 countries and jurisdictions met in Kyoto on Thursday for a two-day conference aimed at going after corporate tax avoidance in the first-ever effort of its kind to include developed and developing countries.
LIFE / Language / COMMUNICATION CUES
Jun 6, 2016
Rakuten chief named in Panama Papers
Rakuten Chairman and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani is named as a shareholder of a company in an offshore tax haven in the Panama Papers.
COMMENTARY / World
May 25, 2016
The business of corruption
Corruption is not a victimless crime.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
May 22, 2016
America: the top tax haven
Operating largely under the radar, the United States has become the world's biggest tax haven.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
May 21, 2016
G-7 finance leaders reject coordinated action to revitalize global economy
Japan was looking to hammer out a new fiscal package in the coming months, but its push for joint global fiscal action was rejected by its more cautious peers.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 14, 2016
Pakistan opposition leader Khan, a former cricket hero, admits using an offshore company
Pakistani opposition leader Imran Khan, who tried to oust Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a row over offshore wealth, has acknowledged using an offshore company to avoid paying British tax on a London property sale.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 12, 2016
Countries pledge to fight graft by revealing who owns companies
Countries from Britain to Afghanistan pledged on Thursday to set up public registers of company ownership in a collective effort to make it harder to launder the proceeds of corruption around the globe.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 12, 2016
Australian Prime Minister Turnbull named in Panama Papers, denies wrongdoing
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday denied any wrongdoing after being been named in the Panama Papers as a former director of a British Virgin Islands company set up to exploit a Siberian gold prospect.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 9, 2016
New Zealand prime place to hide money: Panama Papers
New Zealand is at the heart of a tangled web of shelf companies and trusts that are being used by wealthy Latin Americans to channel funds around the world, according to a report on Monday based on the so-called Panama Papers data leak.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2016
Japan's offshore investors on edge as Panama Papers revelations spark Hong Kong clampdown
Earlier this month, major banks in the territory suddenly stopped accepting applications to open accounts, says one financial consultant.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 21, 2016
Japan, Panama agree to begin negotiations over exchange of tax information
Japan and Panama on Wednesday agreed to start negotiations on a tax information exchange agreement to enhance transparency in the financial system. The move comes at a time of scrutiny over offshore tax avoidance by the rich and powerful following a leak of records from a prominent law firm.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 18, 2016
Panama's president says vilification over tax haven issue is unfair
Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela said Monday in Tokyo it is unjust of the global community to attack his nation over the so-called Panama Papers, as it is in the process of negotiating tax information exchange agreements with other countries, including Japan, to enhance the transparency of its...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 13, 2016
Closing the tax loopholes
The British government needs to take more effective measures to deal with anonymous shell companies and to control tax havens.
EDITORIALS
Apr 12, 2016
Insight into the global shell game
A trove of documents from a Panamanian law firm is rattling politics around the world.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 12, 2016
Cameron may be clean, but that isn't the point
Revelations that British Prime Minister David Cameron benefited from shares in a Panama-based fund have undermined the honest-broker image he was seeking ahead of the 'Brexit' referendum.

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