Do you really know? [2021 RETROSPECTIVE] What are the Pandora Papers?
"Do you really know?" is Bababam's daily podcast, which helps you understand the words, acronyms, and concepts that are making the news every day. From December 6th to 20th, discover the words that have left their mark on the year, with our 2021 Retrospective. From the "Pandora Papers" affair to the "#QuitMyJob" hashtag and of course the "Long Covid" condition, (re)discover these words that sum up 2021.
What are the Pandora Papers? Thanks for asking!
On October 3rd, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists began publishing leaked documents exposing the hidden assets of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
Five years after the Panama Papers revelations, the latest investigation, carried out over two years, represents the biggest ever leak of offshore data, showing the global scale of tax evasion. In total 11.9 million documents were leaked, totalling 2.94 terabytes worth of data.
It has been dubbed the Pandora Papers, evoking Pandora’s Box from Greek mythology, a jar containing the world’s evils.
So who is implicated in the Pandora Papers leak? Did they actually do anything illegal? What’s different this time compared to previous leaks like the Paradise Papers and Panama Papers? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!
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