The recipe is the same: tax havens, firms specialized in financial arrangements, hidden billions, governments, stars or businessmen. The names change from one case to another, but the countries of origin of the fraudsters are more or less the same. As always, people are shocked, the powerful remain silent. It is hard to believe that the exposure of these offshore organizations will have any impact, both on tax policies and on the culprits.

Julio Iglesias, King Abdullah of Jordan, Vladimir Putin, Chilean President Sebastian Piñera, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis, or, as shown here, singer Shakira, supermodel Claudia Schiffer, former IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair are all on the list. Will they care being on the front page?

Pandora papers

By Amandine Victor