I didn't see a thread about this which surprises me, because when I first heard this story and still now as it unfolds, I find it hard to believe, though believe we must...
The project is called the Panama Papers.
Over the past three years, Syria’s air forces rained death on more than 21,000 civilians, their bodies ripped apart by exploding barrel bombs, missiles dropped on homes, businesses, bus stops, even hospitals.
These war crimes have been well-documented. Not so the part played by the shadowy world of offshore finance. Behind the scenes, companies using offshore tax havens were accused of supplying fuel to the Syrian air force. In 2014, multiple governments, including the U.K. and U.S., issued bans on doing business with these companies.
But now a new global investigation has revealed that a Panamanian firm helped these companies operate as attacks in Syria continued. That firm, Mossack Fonseca, is a key player in a sprawling, secretive industry that the world’s rich and powerful used to hide assets and skirt rules but setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions.
Massive trove of Panama Papers just 'a small slice' of offshore banking world | PBS NewsHour
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