![]() ![]() > What's happening is that Putin and his friends, his kind of inner circle, particularly friends from St. > NARRATOR: What the reporters were finding in the leaked documents was yielding fresh evidence of how those close to Putin, like Krivonogikh, were amassing hidden fortunes abroad. > We're here for what I think is one of the most important stories and one of the most fascinating stories in the Pandora Papers. I spent four years in Moscow as the "Guardian's" bureau chief there, and one thing I do know about them is they are very secretive, especially when it comes to money, but also they're rather paranoid. Luke Harding is from Britain's "Guardian" newspaper and has reported on Putin's inner circle. (indistinct chatter) Jorg Schmitt is an investigative reporter from Germany's "Suddeutsche Zeitung." ♪ ♪ Miller and two other reporters were here trying to flesh out Krivonogikh's holdings and her connections to Putin. On the Mediterranean Sea, Monaco is a low tax principality popular with wealthy people from around the world. ♪ ♪ > NARRATOR: We traveled with Miller to Monaco to find out more. > The documents surrounding that shell company indicate that it was created to hold property.Īnd then it indicates that that property is located in Monaco. The files showed her listed as the "beneficial owner" of a company based in the British Virgin Islands. ♪ ♪ > NARRATOR: Journalists from the ICIJ collaboration searched for the name Svetlana Krivonogikh, and they found it. This very detailed account, they connected her to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin their story alleged that she had a secret relationship with Vladimir Putin, and that they had in fact perhaps even had a child in, in or around 2003. ![]() Petersburg who had become mysteriously extremely wealthy. > (speaking Russian) > It was a story about a woman from St. > (speaking Russian) > NARRATOR: Around this time, a report surfaced on a Russian investigative website about a woman named Svetlana Krivonogikh. > They're all kind of windows into bigger stories that you've been covering for a long time, then, you see, wow, there's more to that story than I, than I was capable of seeing or understanding previously, and you have to build it out with material outside the files. > NARRATOR: Early on, we began talking to Greg Miller of the "Washington Post" about what he was finding. > NARRATOR: In the documents, the reporters were tracing how billions of dollars were being hidden from tax authorities, criminal investigators, creditors, and the public. That sets hundreds of journalists off around the globe within 12 or 24 hours, you have reporters from the Philippines to Israel to Brazil who are announcing that they've found offshore secretive deals related to finance ministers or their transport minister or billionaires from their country. > There are a lot of Russians, there are a lot of people from the. (indistinct chatter) > Looking at it, there seems to be a lot of Russians. > NARRATOR: In an online meeting, "Frontline" producers Evan Williams and James Oliver joined other journalists working on the story to discuss where the reporting was leading. > I am Zach Dubinsky, I'm based in Toronto, Canada. > NARRATOR: Over the past two years, journalists from 150 news organizations, including "Frontline," have been examining the leaked documents, emails, spreadsheets, contracts. > We arrived at the conclusion pretty quickly that this was going to be bombshell material.īank accounts of politicians that showed tens, or even hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets that have never been publicly associated with these politicians or public figures before. The leaked records are called the Pandora Papers, and they expose a financial system that shields the deals and assets of some of the world's richest and most powerful people. In all, nearly 12 million confidential financial files from firms that set up shell companies and offshore accounts for clients seeking to keep their wealth in the shadows. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began receiving a trove of leaked documents. ♪ ♪ > NARRATOR: Washington, D.C., late 2019. > NARRATOR: These two stories - on this special edition of FRONTLINE. > NARRATOR: In collaboration with Retro Report and Propublica. > The ongoing fight for justice > Killing 989 people cannot go without punishment in our country. > All the evidence pointed to large scale execution. > NARRATOR: Secretive finance - Overseas - and in the United States.Īnd later in El Salvador. > We have never seen this many heads of state and global billionaires in one location before. > NARRATOR: With the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, and reporters around the world. > They give you visibility into what people are doing with money that they don’t want you to see. NARRATOR: Now, two global investigations on this special edition of FRONTLINE.įirst a massive leak of tax haven documents.
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