Pandora Papers

I mean, we did do two major follow-ups to Panama Papers.

We did Paradise Papers and Pandora Papers...

I mean, Pandora Papers was much bigger than Panama Papers in terms of size, in terms of we had 600 reporters working on that in secret again for a year.

But the impact wasn't the same.

Like the first major shock, and it was a huge shock, was Panama Papers.

I mean, I don't...

Like, if you were to publish Panama Papers today, I don't think it would have the impact, because people would probably shrug and say, is that all? Two billion? That's nothing, you know? I think, like, for us, we've still got to find stories that...

within one like minute I can interest a reporter in France and Brazil and Uganda at the same time and those stories are very difficult to find they tend to be stories with big data sets because when you have unique information it's much easier for me to get a reporter interested in the in you know if you've got like I think we mentioned when we were chatting outside before about a very famous cricketer called Tanduka that we found in the Pandora Papers, I knew right away that the Indian reporters were going to love that story because he's one of the most famous people in the country.

These are some of the things I want to change if I have opportunity, is this election in Nigeria and less than 40% of registered voters cast their vote, we'll repeat the election.

So let's talk about the Pandora Papers controversy.

You defended your offshore assets.

Can you publish all relevant assets and documentation?

The Panama Papers in twenty sixteen, about eleven point five million documents and two point six terabytes.

The Pandora Papers, nearly twelve million files.

The Internet Archive has announced passing a trillion archived web pages.

Open Sanctions alone tracks more than a million targets from hundreds of sources.

His son, Uhuru Kenyatta, followed his father into politics.

The country's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, was among the world's rich who were named this week in the Pandora Papers.

According to the Pandora Papers, Kenya's president, Uhuru Kenyatta, and six members of his family have been linked to 13 offshore companies.

And what was revealed is that the family had invested in, in, um, offshore, um, structures for, if you're including the, the extended family, as early as the mid-'70s.

Uhuru Kenyatta was listed as a beneficiary of a trust that, so to speak, belonged to his mother upon her death.

Uhuru Kenyatta claimed to be an advocate of transparency, and cracking down on corruption was a central theme of his term in office.

This dragon, this beast called corruption, is an animal that we intend to slay.

President Uhuru Kenyatta welcomed the leakage of the Pandora Papers, saying, "The publication of the papers will go a very long way in enhancing the financial transparency and openness required in the country and around the globe."

It's very clear no one actually could live here, in my view.

We also discover that this is an eighty-two-year-old woman who is actually known to the world because she was featured, mentioned throughout, um, the Pandora Papers, if you remember that scandal.

I'm going to refresh your memory very quickly.

It was basically an international oligarch politician scandal, very far-reaching.

I mean, uh, politicians, prime ministers had to resigned, or had to resign.

In, in two thousand and twenty-one, there was essentially a massive leak of approximately twelve million financial records.

You might remember this was like the, the Panama Papers that then rolled into the Pandora Papers, and she was a part of this entire thing.

I'm going to tell you more, but just to update you.