Billionaires, Olympian and porn king among Canadians named in massive new leak exposing offshore accounts and secret tax havens of the global eliteĪ massive new leak of offshore financial records has exposed thousands of secretive shell companies used by the global elite - including world leaders, CEOs and criminals - to move trillions of dollars into tax havens with impunity. He did it at a time when Canada and other Western nations were sending billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance to Jordan.Īnd the man who orchestrated King Abdullah’s obscured offshore asset acquisitions was a former Saskatchewan government accountant.Ģ.
King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein acquired 14 properties abroad worth more than $106 million (U.S.) using some of his 36 shell companies based in secretive tax havens, a cache of newly leaked documents reveal. While Canada sent hundreds of millions in aid to Jordan, its king grew his collection of luxury homesĪs his Middle Eastern monarchy strained under the weight of regional wars, Arab Spring protests and a flood of refugees, the King of Jordan secretly stockpiled a real estate portfolio of luxury homes from California to London, an investigation by the Star and its international partners has found. Want to dive into more long features? Sign up for the Weekend Long Reads newsletter to get them delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.ġ. From the Pandora Papers to the inside story of the two Michaels’ flight to freedom, we’ve selected some of the best long reads of the week on.
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