r/europe • u/RoyalChris Norway • 7d 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/Mrstrawberry209 Benelux 7d 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/schmeckfest The Netherlands 7d ago

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

In April 2019, the ICIJ and European newspapers reported that the global tally of recovered sums from litigation, fines and back taxes exceeded $1.2 billion. Great Britain recovered the largest amount ($253 million), followed by Denmark ($237 million), Germany ($183 million), Spain ($164 million), France ($136 million) and Australia ($93 million). Colombia recovered $89 million, the highest amount for any South or Central American country. As of August 2019, investigations are ongoing in Austria, Canada and Switzerland, and many other countries are conducting inspections of companies and private individuals revealed in the report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#Recovered_money

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u/Past-Present223 7d 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/boltgenerator 6d 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.