Mail & Guardian
Mail & Guardian
panama paperslatest news & developments
President Armando Guebuza arrives at the White House for a group dinner during the US Africa Leaders Summit August 5, 2014 in Washington, DC.  (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Pam Golding facilitates African kleptocrats’ money laundering

Government must take steps to clean up the country’s dirty real estate market, which has long offered a safe haven for criminals

With the help of an aware and critical audience, they must monitor themselves and one another, as they have done in the past. (Gemma Ritchie/M&G)

How — and how not — to restore trust in media

In an age of unprecedented access to information, people must improve their media literacy. But that does not let media organizations off the hook

Police vehicles are parked in front of Deutsche Bank headquarters as roughly 170 criminal police officers, prosecutors and tax inspectors searched Deutsche Bank offices in and around Frankfurt, Germany. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

German police raid Deutsche Bank in ‘Panama Papers’ graft probe

The Frankfurt prosecutors said their probe was focusing on two Deutsche Bank employees aged 50 and 46, as well as several unnamed senior staff members

A protester parodies wealthy capitalists during a demonstration in Paris in 2015 to denounce tax evasion. Developing countries are the hardest hit by this practice. (Michael Bunel/NurPhoto)

Close ranks to end theft by corporates

Multinationals and their subsidiaries must be treated as single entities — and taxed locally

‘More radical critics have described tax havens as a scourge that should be eradicated

Regulation reins in tax havens

Controls are already in play that should limit the worst cases of tax abuse internationally and locally

Battle of the bands: Jonas Gwangwa

These five countries are conduits for the world’s biggest tax havens

These countries funnel major corporate money into secret offshore tax shelters, according to a new study.

Aurora mine liquidators on the hunt for Khulubuse Zuma’s hidden riches

Khulubuse Zuma sold off his rich trappings and claims he is nearly broke – but liquidators believe there’s much more.

Malefactors of Mossack Fonseca: Meet The Dutchman

Malefactors of Mossack Fonseca: Meet The Dutchman, the Queen of the South and the Boss of Bosses

Meet some of the convicted felons and alleged wrongdoers who use secretive offshore companies found in the Panama Papers database.

Panama Papers include dozens of Americans tied to fraud and other financial misconduct

Panama Papers include dozens of Americans tied to fraud and other financial misconduct

Mossack Fonseca’s files include offshore firms linked to at least 36 Americans accused of financial wrongdoing, including fraud and racketeering.

The revolution will be digitised

The revolution will be digitised

Source known only as John Doe says income inequality "one of the defining issues of our time" and calls on governments to address it.

US probes DRC oil deal with Khulubuse Zuma tie

An oil deal originally fronted by Khulubuse Zuma is being probed by US authorities as part of a wider investigation into Och-Ziff Capital Management.

Saraki offers ‘rich wife’ defence in Panama Papers findings

President of the Nigerian Senate Bukola Saraki is accused of failing to declare property and operating foreign accounts in breach of the Constitution.

Namibian clerk in Panama Papers ‘fronting’ pickle

Receptionist Letitia Diergaardt has been outed as a millionaire with links to oil barons and shady arms dealers.

Leaked data from Mossack Fonseca

Military, political leaders behind murky Angola deepwater oil deals

Leaks from the Panama Papers reveal a web of intrigue about how companies got the rights to drill for oil.

Bukola Saraki.

Panama Papers may strengthen case against powerful Nigerian leader

Leaked data reveals the hidden offshore assets of the president of the Senate.

Bermuda is one of the 10 countries responsible for more than half of the world’s corporate tax avoidance risks

US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax havens, claims report

Charity analysis of the 50 biggest US businesses claims Apple have $181bn held offshore, while General Electric has $119bn and Microsoft $108bn.

Police officers stand guard next to a company list showing the Mossack Fonseca law firm outside their office in Panama City.

Panama Papers: Was Mossack Fonseca within its legal rights to keep mum?

The ethics of the Panamanian law firm are certainly questionable, but legally it only had to report any activity that raised obvious red flags.

Salmonella controls were the main sticking point in trade negotiations with the US

Panama Papers: Uganda foils company’s dogged bid to avoid tax

The battle to get oil business Heritage Oil and Gas to pay capital gains, which took Uganda four years to win, is a lesson to developing countries.

A nurse checks on a patient at the Kenama Ebola treatment centre run by the Red Cross Society.

Panama Papers flag billion-dollar DRC mining rip-offs

The Panama Papers have thrown fresh light on the massive scam involving the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mining concessions.

Dangote Group founder and chief executive Aliko Dangote.

Panama Papers reveal shell companies linked to Africa’s richest man

The Panama Papers have blown open evidence that Nigerian tycoon Aliko Dangote is tied to mysterious firms in tax havens around the globe.