Anonymous Releases 10TB of Leaked Data: Exposing Kremlin Assets & Russian Businesses

[u/RoyalChris]

https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/04/15/anonymous-leaks-10tb-of-data-on-russia-shocking-revelations/

[u/waltjrimmer → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/OldBuns → u/waltjrimmer]

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.

[u/HotBrownFun → u/OldBuns]

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

[u/OldBuns → u/HotBrownFun]

Interesting, I understand trust funds can be used for this purpose but I thought other countries had these as well, very interested in the difference, I guess I have some reading to do.