By Kenny Herzog
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) dropped a bombshell months ago that made ProPublica’s June reporting on billionaires’ tax evasion seem quaint. Dubbed Pandora Papers, the ICIJ’s dossier exposes the vast patchwork of offshore business dealings among world leaders, celebrities, and other public figures.
It’s a successor of sorts to the Consortium’s 2016 Panama Papers, which unlocked the machinations behind decades of offshore transactions that enabled industrial-scale corruption.
Pandora Papers goes even further, pulling the curtain back on leaked records that detail how everyone from the King of Jordan to supermodel Claudia Schiffer have availed themselves of international tax havens. And in some instances, as with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, while under scrutiny for allegedly abusing their power and contributing to worldwide inequity.
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