Binding: Paperback
Description: Now a Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh Starring Meryl Streep Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas Two - time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers a landscape of illicit money political corruption and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking tax evasion bribery and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from these activities aided by bankers lawyers and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In Secrecy World two - time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca a trove now known as the Panama Papers as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies operate how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe. Bernstein traveled to the Caribbean Latin America Europe and within the United States to uncover how these strands fit together who is involved how they operate and the real - world impact. He recounts how Mossack Fonseca was exposed and what lies ahead for the corporations banks law firms individuals and governments that are implicated. Secrecy World offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.
Title: Secrecy World (Now The Major Motion Picture The Laundromat) Inside The Panama Papers Illicit Money Networks And The Global Elite
Author(s): Bernstein Jake
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250182463
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/13/2018