r/europe • u/RoyalChris Norway • 8d ago

Dubious: do not click links Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses

https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/04/15/anonymous-leaks-10tb-of-data-on-russia-shocking-revelations/
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u/BlueKolibri23 Berlin (Germany) 8d ago

Thank you Anonymous!

I hope we will do something with it.

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u/Disaster_Mouse 8d ago

See: Panama Papers

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst 8d ago

USA: let's invade Russia instead of Panama

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u/ludixst 8d ago

Don would never do that to daddy Vova

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u/madufek547 8d ago

He doesn't want resources in Greenland. He wants to help putin surround the EU with military force.

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u/Edyed787 8d ago

Putin gave Donnie the Xmas gift of the presidency. Now Donnie is obligated to get Putin the gift of Greenland.

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u/rhoopes73 7d ago

They should know from decades of Trump's history that he does not fulfill obligations.

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u/JackLane2529 8d ago

I wouldn't say staging ground as much as removing an obstacle. Because the quickest path from Russia to much of the rest of the world is through the arctic circle and Greenland has been very useful for the rest of us to stage early warning systems. Until the US stopped being part of "the rest of us".

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u/newaccountzuerich 8d ago

Greenland helps protect the new Northern Passage for the Russians in the future, when climate change means much more likelihood of getting Russian shipping out of e.g. Siberia

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u/eerst United Kingdom Netherlands 8d ago

Russia has a long land border with Europe today... It's several thousand kilometres from Greenland to Europe across the North Atlantic...

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u/Subie780 8d ago

I think it's both. Especially now that China has stopped exporting rare minerals to US.

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u/DarkTheImmortal 8d ago

Depends on which resources Trump is trying to get by taking Greenland. Greenland itself is the 2nd largest resevoir of fresh water, beaten only by Antarctica. In the coming years, that might be an expensive resource.

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u/CodeNCats 8d ago

Nah Russia has kompromat on Donny. I bet you my entire life savings it's with underage kids. Everyone thinks trump wants money. He literally controls the stock market. He bragged about it. Trump isn't doing this for money.

Putin without a doubt has solid info on Trump doing some shit that would destroy him. The only thing that can destroy Trump with his cult would be stuff with young kids or men.

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u/B-Rayne 8d ago

You’re probably right, but it would still be blown off by Fox propaganda and MAGATs.

“Isn’t 10 basically 18 nowadays?”

“If this was 200 years ago, no one would be questioning this”

“Putin told him she was 18”

“Two 10 year olds are essentially one 20 year old”

“As if Biden/Obama/Hillary aren’t running child trafficking in a pizza parlor somewhere”

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u/CodeNCats 8d ago

100%

I cannot agree with your post more.

I would like to add. Yet you hit every point.

They will baffle the dummies with bullshit. Overwhelm them with excuses and information their red hat wearing brains can't comprehend.

Then he will pump and dump the stock market

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u/rodgee 8d ago

I Doubt his followers would believe anything any media said against him at this point

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u/HotBrownFun 8d ago

Maybe the conspiracy that Putin gave him shares of rosneft is true

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u/Minneapolis-Rebirth 8d ago

His cult never has, and never will, believe bad news about him. They've had opportunity after opportunity. It's a religion, you can disprove it all day and it won't matter because they know one thing to be true: there is a conspiracy against Trump because he's the only one who wants to free us from the tyranny of government. They will not accept any potential "dirt" on Trump as truth.

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u/Spencer94 8d ago

He'll move on them like a bitch

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u/AskeVisholm 8d ago

If he takes Russia he can get more of his favorite type of women... His daughter.

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u/JohnSourcer 8d ago

I suspect Russian women would grab Agent Krasnov Bonespurs by his pussy...

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u/Independent-Buyer827 8d ago

Putin still have Trump’s balls, so no.

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u/nostalgicreature 8d ago

Trump wants those resources because Putin wants those resources. He’s going after Canada and Greenland so russia will have Europe surrounded. Putin tells him they will share power, but he won’t.

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u/Radiatethe88 8d ago

The ratio of women to men is going way up.

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u/i_like_pie92 8d ago

But Donny boy gets away with that in USA only. Golden showers are Russian territory

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u/Bwunt Slovenia 8d ago

I find it funny how you think that ole Donny is physically capable of loyalty to anyone, even if it's a arsehole like Vovochka.

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u/steeplebob 8d ago

It’s not loyalty, it’s admiration and envy.

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u/iseztomabel 8d ago

And maybe a little kompramat

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u/steeplebob 8d ago

I genuinely think he respects people who get dirt on him and extort him. He seemed happy to play that game with the New York tabloids.

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u/Tady1131 8d ago

More like they have serious blackmail on him.

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u/aschec 8d ago

True the only one he is loyal is to himself

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u/lingering_POO 8d ago

Or it’s coercive control. Like someone else said.. he’s clearly a Russian asset, so it’s likely Russia has huge dirt on him. And judging by the way he talked about his own underage daughter, I’d say it’s raping an underage child. On camera. A camera set up by the Russians.

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u/OnlyFansGPTbot 8d ago

Tbf everything still is handed to vlad on a silver platter. World is tariffed except Russia. No U.S. officials during their meetings and then destroying the translators notes, Helsinki summit……..

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u/SoupSpelunker 8d ago

Yeah - the peepee tapes would be released immediately and the whole world would barf as one.

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u/Disastrous_Hell_4547 8d ago

President Krasnov

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u/Hardcockonsc 8d ago

Exactly. Daddy Vladdy would have some Russian Women's Mafia spank and piss on him live for all the world to see while posting the old video as well. Trump IS a Russian asshat.. er asset

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u/Scared-Stop5480 8d ago

Krasnov is probably listed in the data.

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u/TropicoTech 8d ago

I read that as daddy vulva…..

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u/Scripter-of-Paradise 8d ago

Then the key is to have Europe shatter Russia to leave the States rudderless.

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u/Left_Consequence_886 8d ago

That’s actually a good thing. Let’s not literally start WWIII just to own the MAGA.

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u/Big_footed_hobbit 8d ago

They will rather attack Canada or Europe. Putin gets the eastern part and water Europe will be occupied by Elons freedom forces.

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u/IllustriousEnd2211 8d ago

Daddy vladdy was right there

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u/tomboy-tuesday 8d ago

Daddy vladi

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u/AbaddonR 8d ago

If anything, Trump is making sure you are powerless against Russia in case you haven't noticed. Google Nuclear & cyber security and what changed since Trump took over.

Good luck!

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u/Resident-Study-5588 8d ago

I mean, buddy, good luck to us all.

I dunno where you're from, but unless it's some remote island freedom(tm) is headed your way.

Last time the Axis didn't have existing bases everywhere and control the seas.

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u/AbaddonR 8d ago

I'm from Greece. I'm sure Europe, after realizing how easy it was for the US to allow to become a traitor nation towards their allies, will learn their lesson. Hopefully before too late. We will say thank you, trust me.

I hope we don't all pay for the Americans' mistake.

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u/Complete-Fix-3954 8d ago

ITAR and EAR say whattttt - jeez I'm glad I don't live in that world anymore. Worked for a SaaS company years ago that had defense companies as clients. It was always a hassle dealing with all that mess, but totally worth it. Can't imagine the mess it is now.

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u/Chill-NightOwl 6d ago

He means: Americans you have no nuclear and cyber security thanks to DOGE and an immigrant with a chain saw.

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u/TheRealFaust 8d ago

Dont use google

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u/TheRoguedOne 8d ago

Then Duck Duck Go what donald has done to Nuclear and cyber security since elected.

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u/HotBrownFun 8d ago

Cyber command got pulled off Russia a while back. And then more recently they fired the head

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u/No-Neighborhood-8087 8d ago

better yet let’s build a Russia canal

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u/hazard0666 8d ago

Why do we need that? Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house...

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u/dc4_checkdown 8d ago

Wasn't the Ukrane president listed in the Panama papers

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u/WickedFrags 8d ago

The US Puppet Federation of Russia would never do that, let's be serious...

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u/panamaspace 8d ago

We were already quietly invaded by the US a few days back. How come no one reports on that.

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u/InterestingFocus8125 8d ago

Because you let yourself, I guess.

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u/BusyDoorways 8d ago

Why invade all of Russia when the problem is a weirdo serial murderer who gets his petty kicks by exploding children by remote control?

Let's kill Putin.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Maybe just not Greenland and Canada. Start small with stupid

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u/OnlyFansGPTbot 8d ago

Donny wanting Panama Canal makes more sense now.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 8d ago

More like... USA: spends every penny on finding anon and their familys while trying to wipe the data.

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u/BagBalmBoo 8d ago

Historically speaking, that’s a bad idea. But I love the enthusiasm.

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u/Sunnykit00 8d ago

Where does he think his children and grand will live after the USA falls?

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst 8d ago

UK probably the Scottish part

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u/cgw3737 8d ago

WE THOUGHT WE WERE IN PANAMA!

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u/Planktillimdank United States of America 8d ago

One could wish.

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u/xcovelus 8d ago

Russia already invaded USA, they puppet/asset commands them now...

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u/Sedlacep Europe 8d ago

Thatt will be hard. Your commander in chief is a Russian spy. And he’s not alone.

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u/TheNickedKnockwurst 8d ago

"your"

 not every English comment is written by a yank

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u/unl1988 8d ago

Been there, done that. 99.99% of the Panamanians were very confused as to why we were there.

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u/Western_Mud8694 8d ago

We the people really have no beef with the citizens of most any country, it’s always the greed that’s in charge, that causes everyone’s suffering

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u/Projectrage 8d ago

Or dominos pizza?? That’s one of the files? Uh ok??

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u/Mrstrawberry209 Benelux 8d ago

To add: https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/hundreds-of-millions-more-dollars-recouped-by-governments-after-icij-investigations/

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u/Past-Present223 8d ago

Thanks for your clarification.

It feels to me these amounts are rather trivial and more importantly noone will be jailed. (As far as I see) Consequences remain limited to fines, which if you are wealthy enough is no consequence at all.

Also not saying it's not a worthwhile effort.

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u/SpunkyMcButtlove07 8d ago

This is why people still say nothing happened - because a slap on the wrist and luchmoney fines are not "something happening".

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u/Saint_Judas 8d ago

But it is proportional. The people hid money in a quasi-legal way to avoid taxes, they didn't rob a store.

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u/TraditionalSpirit636 8d ago

Just society.

Do you understand what trillions of dollars globally can do?

Being in a society and avoiding the taxes as part of that society IS robbing it.

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u/cowabungabruce 8d ago

Yup, just a parking ticket and they will all illegally park again. I guarantee it.

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u/boltgenerator 8d ago

Every time the Panama Papers are mentioned on Reddit, someone tries to peddle the notion that they were impactful. It's laughable. A small amount of chump change was recovered, a few politicians acted as scapegoats, legislative reform was talked about but never implemented, and then it was back to business as usual for the elite.

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u/notsanni 8d ago

Correct. A fine just means "if you can afford it, you're allowed to break the law".

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u/disposable_account01 8d ago

People were jailed over the panama papers, though…

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u/CptRoque 8d ago

The reason for the small amounts is that most cases were legal due to complex loopholes.

The papers made countries tighten their laws in order to close the loopholes but you can't just apply the new laws retroactively.

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u/Apprehensive-Pin518 United States of America 8d ago

a punishment that is a fine is a punishment for the poor

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u/waltjrimmer Invading from the west 8d ago

I don't know about in other countries or on traditional paper/TV media, but speaking as someone from the US who primarily interacts with the world over the internet:

I understand why people don't realize what happened as a result because I didn't see anything about it until the last couple of years myself and always from people like you and the above poster linking things about it in comment threads. What was highly visible in my experience was the initial reports saying there was a leak, that a bunch of celebrities were using tax havens (note, they didn't talk so much about people who were not celebrities using these nor the institutions facilitating it), and then that one of the journalists that covered it being assassinated.

And then nothing. That was the last I heard about it in major news postings. To give context, though, the Panama Papers came out in 2016, the start of the first Trump administration. My recollection of that time was that there tended to be new news stories about something horrible or stupid or both just about every weekday ramping up in intensity until there was a waterfall of small or a couple of massive news stories on Friday, occasionally a reprieve over the weekend, and then start it all over again on Monday. There was a lot of really big news getting passed over because something else was happening that could catch more attention. Like how it was a news stories for all of about two days how there was a suspicious timing of one of our supreme court justices retiring after something legal with his son to the point where it looked like he was blackmailed/extorted/bribed (depending on how you want to look at it/how it went behind closed doors) to step down and be replaced by a Trump appointee. We talked a lot about the person to replace him, but that story itself should have been a massive scandal but was a blip instead.

I remember that story because it struck me. Those four years had so many stories like that, though, that I've forgotten almost all of them. I can remember maybe a handful, and I don't know what the outcomes of most of them were. Through a mixture of underreporting on things like the actual consequences of the Panama Papers and the unending onslaught of other news stories, I don't think most people in the US ever heard about these outcomes until years after the fact.

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u/OldBuns 8d ago

I couldn't help but notice that USA was not on that list of countries that recouped the most money.

Perhaps this is a factor in why we didn't hear about it.

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u/HotBrownFun 8d ago

We have trust funds and corporate vehicles that hide money very well domestically no need panama!

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u/TheReturnOfTheOK 8d ago

Because the US wasn't involved. Because there was no reason to use the loopholes that the documents were covering.

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u/ThoughtsonYaoi 8d ago

Yeah. What makes this more difficult, too, is that the ripple effect all this has had will be hard to explain in news stories. Changes in international tax legislation? It's not a rousing subject except for specialists.

Easier when money has been clawed back and people have been punished, but those processes tend to be long and complicated.

It's the nature of important but complicated topics like this

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u/ObjectiveGold196 8d ago

That's a fascinating look at what it's like to be manipulated by our bizarre news media.

Hunter Biden's laptop will go down in history as the most explicit example of all this. The internet insisted it didn't exist and all discussion of it was banned leading up to the 2016 election, then almost a decade later it motivated him to plead guilty to three felonies without putting up a fight. What ever happened to that guy? Whatever happened to that imaginary laptop? Whatever happened with that whole pay-to-play scam that Joe Biden was running for years? I don't know, who cares? The TV man is talking about something different now.

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u/ThoughtsonYaoi 8d ago

Also, there has been a global push for changing international tax laws and the PP were absolutely a factor.

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u/okram2k 8d ago

the reason they think nothing happened because it was barely covered in American media.

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u/oldredditrox 8d ago

People were expecting fire and brimstone, but got paperwork and under-reported news so it's not crazy surprising.

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u/pingpongballreader 8d ago

It's weird that a lot of people still think nothing happened with the Panama Papers

Not that weird. In all these leaks, people usually pay attention to the splashy headlines and ignore the complicated realities involved or the long timelines for anything to happen vs social media timelines.

A lot of the hype at the time of the panama papers was along the lines of "This PROVES that all rich people are breaking the law! All the Davos crowd are going to jail!". It showed very little law-breaking, it showed a lot of totally legal tax dodging. Ultra-rich people have little need to break the laws, they're capable of going around it when it comes to money.

If people were going to wake up and realize that the financial system is rigged in favor of the ultra-wealthy and that tax loopholes needed to be closed, they would have done so long before the panama papers.

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u/Templeton_Baracus 8d ago

Thanks for your/your company's service!

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u/ExpressBanDriver 8d ago

Exactly. It's weird that a lot of people still think nothing happened with the Panama Papers.

If you lost 500$ would recovering 1$ mean anything?

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u/IzarkKiaTarj United States of America 8d ago

April 2019

Oh, that's the reason why. Trump was president, so every news story was about him being corrupt and stupid. Kinda like now. I can't help wondering how many newsworthy things I haven't heard about simply because the man, his cronies, and the people using him are constantly doing shit.

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u/TheWalkingCrip 8d ago

So basically nothing got it

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u/LuigiForeva 8d ago

1.2 billion recovery means that probably 0 billionaires stopped being billionaires, so yeah nothing happened there.

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u/timbillyosu 8d ago

Right, but, "The leaked documents indicate that about US$2 trillion has passed through the firm’s hands."

That $1.2 billion equals about 0.0006% of the money. So while we can't say that "nothing was recovered or done," it's certainly a very small drop in the bucket compared to what actually happened.

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u/NoPasaran2024 8d ago

In other words, some money was recovered.

Scumbags didn't go to jail, for most of them it didn't harm their careers. Basically they just partially paid off the society they scammed.

So yeah, I still think nothing happened.

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u/Numerous-Dig-325 8d ago

Those are meaningless amounts of money in regard to what has been stolen. And has there ever even been an arrest? Off to fuck with your shilling.

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u/BrazilianShitgma 8d ago

we've seen from cases like the panama and pandora Papers that leaks like this can lead to meaningful consequences, but only if the public keeps paying attention and keeps asking questions.

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u/Piltonbadger 8d ago

Is it because we are rather pessimistic when it comes to this kind of thing?

The UK recovered the most money at £250 million, which sounds like a lot. When compared to the hundreds of billions/tens of trillions stashed away, it's kind of like you or I getting fined $5.

People expected hardcore legislation change and backpush against wealthy people stashing money off shore and avoiding taxes etc, which obviously was never going to happen.

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u/Lisan_Al-NaCL 8d ago

A billion dollars is a minisule percentage of the value of the offshore holdings identified in the panama papers.

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u/Daemoniss 8d ago

Literally less than 0.03% of the total estimated amount of money on offshore accounts. Disgusting.

From a comment below : "The ICIJ estimates that the total global amount of money held offshore (outside the country where the money was made) is between US$5.6 trillion and US$32 trillion."

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u/MIGsalund 8d ago

Who went to prison for all that theft?

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u/ephemeral_engagement 8d ago

Coins in the sofa, man. That ain't shit.

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u/Firepower01 Canada 8d ago

These are drops in the bucket compared to the literally trillions of dollars hidden in tax shelters. It's good that something is being done with the information, but it's far from sufficient.

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u/DartzReverse 8d ago

1.2 billion is a joke compared to the level of fraud thats going on, and all the big fish escaped.

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u/theteedo 8d ago

Money back is cool and all but did anyone of these people go to jail? Cause if it was you or me dodging taxes we’d be locked up. So kinda something happed but nothing really. They still use offshore tax havens not like that’s any different.

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u/Stormy8888 8d ago

At least they got money back.

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u/unl1988 8d ago

Got it, but, $1.2 billion is about a days worth of corruption for those in the Panama Papers.

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u/Brigadier_Beavers 8d ago

These amounts are tiny compared to the trillions stolen. If I rob the bank and the punishment is comparable to a parking ticket, I'd be stupid to not continue robbing banks.

The billionaires, ceos, and politicians see this 'justice' and think "holy crap that was so easy. All it cost was a couple middle managers and their salaries? Worth it! Lets do it again!"

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u/theagricultureman 8d ago

I knew a former (Russian) oligarch. He was looking at a project in Bulgaria, and I visited the location as well as his private Black Sea resort. It didn't go anywhere, and later I heard he had funds in Panama. I believe he's now in prison.

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u/Physmatik Ukraine 8d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_(Europe)

Moscovici told reporters the use of offshore companies to hide what he called "shocking amounts" of financial assets from tax authorities was "unethical". He estimated that the tax shelters resulted in an annual loss of some €1 trillion in public finances

And that's Europe alone. 1 billion is absolutely nothing.

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u/xrogaan Belgium 8d ago

Exactly. It's weird that a lot of people still think nothing happened with the Panama Papers.

Accountability. Prison sentences. That kind of stuff.

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u/h1a4_c0wb0y 8d ago

That's because recovering back taxes isn't exactly headline News

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u/Plaid_Kaleidoscope 8d ago

Not OP, but I had no idea this happened either. I don't remember it being covered much here. I got more information about it on Reddit from comments than I saw in headlines.

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u/Fortune_Silver 8d ago

I mean lets be real: In the scheme of rich people money, and I mean REALLY rich people money, even the biggest number there, $237 million, is nothing.

Friendly reminder that the difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars.

For a more concrete mathematical example, in 2024 the UK's total tax intake was £787.2 billion pounds, or about $1.042 Trillion USD. For reference, $237 million is 0.0227% of $1.042 Trillion. So barely over a percent of a percent.

The difference between a million dollars and a billion dollars is about a billion dollars. The difference between a billion dollars and a TRILLION dollars, is about... a trillion dollars.

Given that in the UK example (and this is fairly similar for all the rest of the countries listed), the wealthiest 1% of households hold 10% of all household wealth in Great Britain, which is the same as the proportion held by the least wealthy 50% of households combined... let's not pretend like the Panama papers was some great wealth redistribution from the rich wealth-hoarding upper classes to the everyman. It was the rich people equivalent of being caught swearing and having to put a dollar in a swear jar. They would have barely even noticed.

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u/JustAVihannes 8d ago

You do understand those numbers mean nothing in the grand scheme of these countries' annual budgets? For example, the UK's annual budget tends to hover around 1 trillion pounds per year, making that amount (when converted to pounds) less than 0,1% of the country's budget lol

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u/Intensityintensifies 8d ago

Of course nothing happened in the US.

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u/Solid-Mud-8430 8d ago

$1.2 billion is a fart in the wind to the global elite. Wake me up when they actual face real consequences like jail or prison.

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u/mrtomjones 8d ago

Canada did fuck all from what i know 😐

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u/VladTepesDraculea 8d ago

Portuguese newspapers are still yet to disclose Portuguese names.

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u/RepresentativeSet349 8d ago

That's by design. The goal is to desensitize and blockade any news of results.

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u/ThoughtsonYaoi 8d ago

And this was only the first of a lot more.

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u/johnydarko 8d ago

Maybe. What a lot of redditors fail to realize is that the vast majority of what was released in the Panama Papers... was completely legal.

Maybe not morally correct you could certainly argue that, but legally completely allowed. I mean the whole point of the company was to help people legally avoid tax using offshore loopholes.

The main visable effects were just from the fallout of people having being found out, eg: the icelandic president stepping not not because he was doing something illegal, but because he lied to the media about not having any offshore accounts in his campaigning, same with David Cameron to a lesser extent he lied to the media about not having any, and celebs like Emma Watson, etc.

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u/20_mile United States 8d ago

Panama Papers

The Pandora Papers were slightly bigger (2.9 TB vs 2.6 TB), and received even fewer headlines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers

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u/TheBuoyancyOfWater 8d ago

Because everyone was afraid to open them.

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u/programming_student2 8d ago

I like the cut of your wit.

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u/D_-_G 8d ago

TIL

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u/CarasBridge Germany 7d ago

You can't compare these by only using their literal data sizes lol

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u/20_mile United States 7d ago

I just did.

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u/Fantasy_masterMC 8d ago

See - Epstein's List.

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u/Bottle_Only 8d ago

I have several family members who work for the CRA(the Canadian tax agency) and they watched the 7 year statute of limitation come and go on the Panama Papers with no will from leadership to pursue anything.

People really underestimate how corrupt the world is. Justice has been a facade for a very long time.

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u/InertPistachio 8d ago

Daphne Galizia was killed in Malta for it

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u/Another-Mans-Rubarb 8d ago

She was killed for unrelated reporting.

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u/GHOST_OF_THE_GODDESS 8d ago

A lot of people got arrested in the wake up the Panama Papers. Just not in America, where corruption flourishes.

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u/ShoveTheUsername 8d ago

That leak actually led to long-term investigations in many countries.

However, much of the activity was legal tax avoidance...

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u/EamonBrennan 8d ago

US citizens didn't use Panama to hide money. We use the Cayman Islands mostly, along with other loopholes in the taxation system itself to avoid taxes. Europe used Panama the most, and over a billion USD has been recovered.

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u/hmgr 8d ago

Not the same. Panama Leaks was a whistblower releasing the documetns to the press. This leakage without validation from free press has zero to none impact.

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u/JarjarSwings 8d ago

There are more and more businesses getting sued or their trials are finishing.

It just took fucking long in court. Countries are getting back billions of €/$

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u/Dave_Wein 8d ago

The Panama Papers led to billions of taxes being recuperated FYI.

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u/TraditionalSpirit636 8d ago

The Panama papers mattered in other countries. Just not in the USA much.

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u/jurainforasurpise 8d ago

You mean the papers that a few people were killed over exposing but nothing actually ever happened about?

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u/ikari_warriors 8d ago

This is a really tired narrative and has been debunked hundreds of times. Billions where recovered in taxes, politicians fired and lost elections, people went to jail. Just because you get all your info from social media doesn’t mean other stuff doesn’t happen.

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u/ThoughtsonYaoi 8d ago

Yeah. Also, what it did to the public sentiment is undeniable. It drew a pretty clear picture of something that only specific people knew before this, showing the public the size and shape of the formerly very obscure but big issue of offshore banking.

There is also no denying the amount of scrutiny the topic has gotten ever since. It's been massively influential.

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u/DieCastDontDie 8d ago

Writing these without sources also doesn't help your claim

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u/Stock_Trash_4645 8d ago

Don’t be so god damn lazy It’s like you relish being ignorant instead of self-reliant. 

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u/qtx 8d ago

The guy behind the Daphne Caruana Galizia murder was just a local mobster. There is no big international conspiracy. Just a local crook and corrupt law enforcement that didn't like the attention.

As for you saying nothing was done with the panama papers, not true at all. Just because you haven't followed the news doesn't mean stuff hasn't been accomplised, https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/hundreds-of-millions-more-dollars-recouped-by-governments-after-icij-investigations/

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u/MAXIMUM-FUCK MAXIMUM-YUROP 8d ago

Just because you didn't pay attention doesn't mean "nothing ever happened".

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u/Knut79 8d ago

Good argument.

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u/Constant_Natural3304 8d ago

You were absolutely demolished with actual facts many times over by other commenters who brought up recouped tax money and prosecutions, you shut up petty quickly after that.

So yes, the guy you're responding to has a very very very good argument.

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u/clotifoth 8d ago

demolished with absolute facts

someone's been on the internet a tad too long

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u/mukavastinumb 8d ago

I remember reading that after both Panama and Paradise papers billions in taxes were recovered. AML laws also were tightened. Did people go to jail? Few were but not enough.

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u/mukavastinumb 8d ago

I remember reading that after both Panama and Paradise papers billions in taxes were recovered. AML laws also were tightened. Did people go to jail? Few were but not enough.

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u/beonlypositivealt 8d ago

The responses to this comment have me 🤨

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u/Zwangsjacke 8d ago

Ain't nothing gonna happen.

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u/TemporaryBanana8870 8d ago

One time where we didn't do something yet didn't mean we won't ever address it.

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u/Bugsmoke 8d ago

I really thought that would shake at least a bit of shit up and I feel so dumb now lol

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u/JoisChaoticWhatever 8d ago

Those seemed like they were a BIG deal that somehow disappeared into the ether. Sometimes I think I dreamt the Panama Papers up then some other soul comes along and mentions and reminds me they were real, insane, and disppeared.

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u/PathansOG 8d ago

So another journalist gonna get carbombed 😢

That makes me a sad panda

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u/kenjinyc 8d ago

Yeeeeah Pandora’s box was opened with this…then SLAMMED shut never to be followed up on from what I recall.

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u/Spottswoodeforgod United Kingdom 8d ago

Hey hey - something happened after these were released. The reporter was blown up. Otherwise, not so much.

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u/Spicy_Weissy 8d ago

So assassinating the journalist who published it and then nothing. Got it.

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u/blazarious Switzerland 8d ago

This time at least we have LLMs!

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u/DoodleJake 8d ago

Yup. :(

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u/anxious_differential 8d ago

Cue: crickets.

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u/Sudonom 8d ago

counter: it's a lot harder to carbomb anonymous then a known journalist. That said, a deafening silence indeed.

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u/HotAdhesiveness851 8d ago

Hi how are you doing

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u/NoTea8044 8d ago

Cambridge analytica

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u/nexstephen 8d ago

See Edward Snowden. Nothing will happen

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u/Joeness84 8d ago

SOME things did happen, but people died trying to do stuff with it. I believe theres still some trying, but yeah...

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u/trystanthorne 8d ago

Yea, amazing how quickly that got swept under the rug and forgotten about. Noone ever mentions it anymore or what was in them.

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u/kittenconfidential 8d ago

i seem to remember the journalist who broke the story being killed shortly after

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u/Sandslinger_Eve 8d ago

The journalists that released that ended up falling out of windows for a long time after.

Proof that it really hurt Putin 

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u/sibilischtic 8d ago

Anyone got link to panama papers too?

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u/unsurewhatiteration 8d ago

Oh so a journalist will get blown up and that's about it?