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The Panama papers : breaking the story of how the rich & powerful hide their money / Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: German Publisher: London : Oneworld Publications Ltd, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: x, 366 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1786070472
  • 9781786070470
Other title:
  • Breaking the story of how the rich and powerful hide their money
Uniform titles:
  • Panama papers. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1338 23
LOC classification:
  • HJ2336 .O2413 2016
Summary: "Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents revealing how the president of Argentina has sequestered millions of dollars of state money for private use. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow SuÌddeutsche journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in the secret world where complex networks of letterbox companies help the super-rich to hide their money. Faced with the contents of the largest data leak in history, they activate an international network of journalists to follow every possible line of inquiry. Operating in the strictest secrecy for over a year, they uncover cases involving European prime ministers and international dictators, emirs and kings, celebrities and aristocrats. The real-life thriller behind the story of the century, The Panama Papers is an intense, unputdownable account that proves, once and for all, that there exists a small elite living by a different set of rules and blows their secret world wide open."--Back cover.Other editions: English translation of :: Obermayer, Bastian, 1977- Panama Papers : die Geschichte einer weltweiten EnthuÌllung ....
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks HJ2336 .O2413 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001404416

Translated from the German.

"First published in the German language as Panama papers: Die Geschichte einer weltweiten EnthuÌllung."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-366).

"Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents revealing how the president of Argentina has sequestered millions of dollars of state money for private use. This is just the beginning. Obermayer and fellow SuÌddeutsche journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in the secret world where complex networks of letterbox companies help the super-rich to hide their money. Faced with the contents of the largest data leak in history, they activate an international network of journalists to follow every possible line of inquiry. Operating in the strictest secrecy for over a year, they uncover cases involving European prime ministers and international dictators, emirs and kings, celebrities and aristocrats. The real-life thriller behind the story of the century, The Panama Papers is an intense, unputdownable account that proves, once and for all, that there exists a small elite living by a different set of rules and blows their secret world wide open."--Back cover.

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