Panama Papers: Characters television and politicians also … – Management Journal

The businessman Baruch Ivcher, host Magaly Medina and former ambassador of Peru in Venezuela, Luis Raygada, are some of the new names in the Panama Papers, by IDL Reporters and Convoca.pe.

not only entrepreneurs were customers but Fonseca Mossack in the analysis by the data Unit International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ( ICIJ for short), which aired today IDL Reporters and Convoca.pe, in Panama Papers also include politicians and even personalities of the Peruvian television characters.

Previously it was known that one of those TV characters was the journalist Nicolas Lucar but now two other people linked to the same channel where he works add

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These characters are businessman Baruch Ivcher, who was owner of Frecuencia Latina to 2012, and TV host Magaly Medina. Ivcher appears as sole shareholder with 50,000 shares of the company offshore Hazelville Holdings Group Corp while Medina is listed as owner of the offshore Florida Studios Inc.

According to research by ICIJ , not unlikely that Peruvian customers Mossack Fonseca focus on the sector with greater resources of the country, since according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (Cepal), 10% of the population richest of Peru has a tax rate of just over 5%.

While in the United States, for example, the rate rises to 14.2% and in some European countries like UK, Italy and Sweden, more than 25%.

“The inequality is intensified by these tax havens, whose stories of concealment, tax evasion, money laundering, conflicts of interest, among other things, continue revealing new reports and constantly updated interactive that we present today, “he said ICIJ .

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Among the political figures who appear in the Panama Papers two former public officials linked to Venezuela, one is Francisco Pardo Mesones , former congressman and former director of the Central Reserve Bank; and Luis Raygada Souza , former ambassador of Peru in Venezuela during the present government.

Pardo Mesones was associated with a senior official of the German federal printing , Bundesdruckerei, to acquire the offshore Billingsley Global Corp (Panama) and receive through it illegal commissions from the German company contracting with the government of Venezuela.

While Raygada scheme configured a business presence in Peru, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, led by Panamanian offshore Entelin International Holding, in 2009, which later became finance Entelin Peru. Company that contracted with the state for more than 550 thousand suns, while Raygada was ambassador and had minority stake in the offshore.

Other former officials on the list are José Luis Castaneda Neyra , who held about 15 key positions during the two governments of Alan Garcia while maintaining links with companies that had lucrative contracts with the state, according to the publication of IDL Reports and convenes. eg.

The lawyer Castañeda Neyra appears linked to the offshore Tamarit Engineering Ltd, two months after leaving his post as general secretary of the Ministry of Housing, Construction and Sanitation ( MVCS ).

in case Lava Jato, research on corporate corruption and most important in Latin America politics, Panama Papers exposed the Mossack Fonseca set up 107 offshore related individuals and companies investigated, which until then were unknown by the Brazilian authorities.