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Scammers arrested after evading €7.2 million in tax in Czechia and Slovakia

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Healthcare Pharmacy distributed over 2.7 million oxycodone pills from 2014 through 2017, according to officials. It ended when the DEA ordered the pharmacy to stop distributing controlled substances on August 31, 2017, after 20 years of operation.


Petroleum Minister José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos had power of attorney for an offshore company in 2002, when he became petroleum minister after previously being employed for a number of years as an executive at Sonangol,[2] according to the leaked documents. He denies wrongdoing.[4] ICIJ partner Le Monde says it has seen documents that show he was the proxyholder for Medea Investments Limited, founded in Niue in 2001, and moved to Samoa five years later. The company, which issued only bearer bonds, had a capitalization of $1 million, and closed in 2009.[2] He has never previously been accused of corruption.[5]




Scammers arrested after evading €7.2 million in tax




Former Sudanese President Ahmed al-Mirghani was a client of Mossack Fonseca also.[20] Al-Mirghani lived in Egypt after the 1989 coup that ended his presidency and was active in the Democratic Unionist Party.[20] Orange Star Corporation bought a long-term lease in a tony London neighborhood near Hyde Park for $600,000 the same year al-Mirghani created it, and at the time of his death held assets worth $2.72 million.[20]


Guinean President Alpha Condé launched an investigation after he was elected in 2010. Separately, so did the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US justice department, suspecting violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In August 2014 Mossack Fonseca received a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) notice from the US government inquiring into ownership of Pentler and two other BSGR companies administered by Mossack Fonseca's Geneva office. However, the president of Pentler's financial management firm, Menachem Eitan, was a fugitive from the US SEC facing charges over a $55 million Ponzi scheme.[28]


Also in 2005, Zacharias (Zacky) Nujoma, youngest son of Sam Nujoma, set up two holding companies, Avila Investments and Marbella Investments, and licensed them to buy and cut diamonds. Shortly afterwards 90% of the stock was transferred to Diamond Ocean.[31] In 2006 Nujoma established Ancash Investments, which obtained seven exclusive uranium prospecting licenses.[31] Palazzolo loaned the company US$10 million.[31] Canadian mining company announced it would partner with Ancash in its uranium contracts and said it based its decision in part on Ancash's strong international support in Natural Earth International Ltd. of Hong Kong.[31] Natural Earth is another Deutsche Investment company.[31]


Two men linked to Fidentia, a South African asset management company that looted 1.2 billion rand[47] from pension funds meant to provide for 46,000 widows and orphans of mineworkers,[48] had accounts with Mossack Fonseca, which was willing to help hide the money even after South Africa made their names public.[48] The former chief executive of Fidentia, J. Arthur Brown, was sentenced in 2014 to concurrent 15-year sentences.[48] The FBI arrested one man, Steven Goodwin, in Los Angeles in 2008. Sent back to South Africa, Goodwin was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fraud and money laundering.[49] The other, Graham Maddock, was also later jailed in South Africa for fraud.


Former President Ahmed al-Mirghani surfaced as a client of Mossack Fonseca.[20] Al-Mirghani, who was president from 1986 to 1989, created Orange Star Corporation in the British Virgin Islands through the Panama firm in 1995, when he was living in Egypt after the coup that ended his presidency. He was active in the Democratic Unionist Party there.[20] Orange Star Corporation bought a long-term lease in a tony London neighborhood near Hyde Park for $600,000 the same year al-Mirghani created it, and at the time of his death held assets worth $2.72 million.[20] 2ff7e9595c


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