The Panama Papers (Spanish: Papeles de Panamá) are 2.6TB of data or 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities leaked beginning on 3 April 2016. The documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, former Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca.The documents contain personal financial information about wealthy individuals and public officials that had previously been kept private. The publication of these documents made possible to establish the prosecution of Jan Marsalek, who is still of interest to a number of European governments due to his revealed links with Russian intelligence and international financial fraudsters David and Josh Baazov. While offshore business entities are legal (see Offshore Magic Circle), reporters found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions."John Doe", the whistleblower who leaked the documents to German journalist Bastian Obermayer from the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), remains anonymous, even to the journalists who worked on the investigation. "My life is in danger", the whistleblower told them. In a May 6, 2016 statement, John Doe cited income inequality as the reason for the action and said they leaked the documents "simply because I understood enough about their contents to realize the scale of the injustices they described". Doe added that they had never worked for any government or intelligence agency and expressed willingness to help prosecutors if granted immunity from prosecution. After SZ verified that the statement did in fact come from the source for the Panama Papers, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) posted the full document on its website.SZ asked the ICIJ for help because of the amount of data involved. Journalists from 107 media organizations in 80 countries analyzed documents detailing the operations of the law firm. After more than a year of analysis, the first news stories were published on April 3, 2016, along with 150 of the documents themselves. The project represents an important milestone in the use of data journalism software tools and mobile collaboration.
The documents were dubbed the Panama Papers because of the country they were leaked from, but the Panamanian government expressed strong objections to the name over concerns that it would tarnish the government's and country's image worldwide, as did other entities in Panama and elsewhere. Some media outlets covering the story have used the name "Mossack Fonseca papers".In October 2020, German authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the two founders of the law firm at the core of the tax evasion scandal exposed by the Panama Papers. Cologne prosecutors are seeking German-born Jürgen Mossack and Panamanian Ramón Fonseca on charges of accessory to tax evasion and forming a criminal organization.
does anyone have any worked out solutions for the Australian maths competition for the years 2002-2009.
i really need them and would be really greatful if anyone could provide me with some or the name of a website that has these papers.
Three new papers appeared this week which strongly reinforce the Loop program.
1. The Ashtekar Sloan paper shows inflation favors the Loop early universe. Loop cosmology makes an adequate (60 e-folds) inflation episode overwhelmingly more likely, without special tuning, than is classically...
I am currently doing a PG research project to fabricate nanoparticles.I am just starting my research and i was wondering if anyone would help me obtain research papers from Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids.
I would like to see
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Volume 304, Issues 1-3, June...
How do these two papers fit in the hole AS discussion, or are they unrelated. Ambjörn and Loll visited the Asymptotic safety conference at PI in november !
http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.4211
Proper time is stochastic time in 2d quantum gravity
Authors: J. Ambjorn, R. Loll, Y. Watabiki, W...
Has anyone used the new e-readers with scientific papers? I'm looking into getting a kindle or something similar. But am concerned about the formating of the pdf files on the small screen. While it would be nice not to have to carry a stack of papers the screen needs to be easy to read...
On 14 November we got news ( https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=2441424#post2441424 ) that an International Center for Quantum Gravity was being created at Erlangen.
This will be directed by Thomas Thiemann, who has a joint appointment at AEI Potsdam, the other main place for QG...
Homework Statement
I am a beginning quantum mechanics student, and I need to solve a journal paper that uses the step potential fairly simply. I've been searching for (literally) days, but everything seems to be far too complicated. Can someone please point me in a direction, or offer some...
Can anyone recommend a style for writing theoretical physics papers?
I'm just a first-year undergrad but I want to get used to writing papers in a style that is suited, or generally accepted, for theoretical physics papers by practicing on my class notes.
Can someone also suggest an...
At a meeting at work today a colleague mentioned that he is currently spending a LOT of time reviewing papers, it has reached a point where he felt that it is simply taking too much time from his other responsibilities. But on the other hand it is also part of the job so he did not really feel...
There's an interesting series of papers by Bahr and Dittrich, and a related video talk by Dittrich at the Planck Scale site. The papers bear on issues discussed in the Lewandowski thread. The first in the series is a good introduction to the rest. Here are some links and abstracts to show what...
I find it difficult to understand mathematical papers. Please can someone help by giving me clues on how to understand current research works on mathematics?
All I've done at uni is Physics, math and computer programing papers
i was thinking of adding some chemistry papers, but not quite sure because it won't go towards my degrees
do most physics majors do a few chemistry papers?
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Most of the papers I've done so far are just electricity...
Does anyone know where I can access past exam papers in the field of linear algebra. I am particularly looking for first year undergraduate exam questions on linear algebra.
So my summer research adviser asks me to read a bunch of papers, and I am just a freshman, so I don get like 85% of the stuff in the papers.. what should i do? what does he expect me to get out of it? thank you.
In the stupid quest to know everything about a subject, i just wonder if there exist databases out there that include all the existing journals to search for an specific topic.
I currently use Science Direct, but that is restricted only to Elsevier journals. For example, it does not include...
I am a freshman at a university (I'm 16 years old- skipped 2 grades in school) and I'm planning to major in physics. After reading more specialized books in the library, and having some discussions with professors I have come up with a couple ideas that I would like to develop further and...
What was the name of Einsteins paper of General Relativity and where can i find it on the internet (not the exact original, the translated typed version). sorry, for this lame questions.
If someone has written a paper on physics (e.g. like Einstein, papers on Relativity) and wants to publish it what to they have to do? Who do they sent it to,,, you get the point?
I know this question has been asked before but does anyone know where I could find some of Einstein's original handwritten papers? Obviously they would be in german but its no problem. There is so much junk about him on the internet its hard to sift through it all
Thanks,
Jeff
I am communicating with other researchers in neuroscience. Sometime they don't have access to a paper we may be discussing. For example the university access i have (Athens) has limits with each major publisher having some journals subscribed to Athens and some not.
I wanted to know what...
I've been looking for (free) papers (probably 100+ pages) that are introductions to eleven-dimensional supergravity. Rigor and mathematics is preferred. Does anyone know of any specific articles that satisfy these conditions? I've looked at ArXiv and Google Scholar but I'm having trouble finding...
Questions: Where can I obtain the most advanced published papers regarding valid unification theories? If there are none, which published papers will get me closest when combined in their respective categories?
Comment: It is obvious to me through speculation, physical laws have yet to...
I don't know which forum this question pertains to.
What are the best programs that can be used to create without too much effort good quality smooth diagrams in a scientific paper? A colleague of mine used CorellDraw.
What do you use?
How did Einstein come to pushish his general theory of relativity? Was it in a series of papers over a few years, or in one definite article?
In either case, are these (or this) papers available on the internet in engligh?
Thanks.
I have some great math ideas I want to write, but the most accepted format is latex. I go to the latex website and see that it is a complicated program. I don't want to be a programmer . Seems like too much work for just some symbols I can easily write by hand. Then you have to somehow put it in...
I've recently had a paper accepted to be published in a maths journal. This is my first paper to be published, but the problem is that I currently work outside academia and have no academic affiliation to give them. I do have a PhD in maths, but that ended about 10 years ago.
Does anyone have...
I found this site, intended for academic papers sharing, including lecture notes, ebooks and presentations.
Links to specific categories:
http://www.wepapers.com/navigate/222/physics"
http://www.wepapers.com/navigate/217/Mathematics"...
How does one go about referencing / citing one’s submitted, yet unpublished pending peer-review, papers? Specifically on something like a CV, is something special done to distinguish it from published papers?
Would it be just like an ordinary citation, but only including the title and authors...
Hey fellas,
I'm giving my SAT subject tests in Dec 2008, And I would like to know where I can give practice tests for : Math 1-2, Physics ? Please Help, as I intent to score 800 on all three of them. I presently use Princeton for both math, barrons for physics; but the practice tests are'nt...
I'm using the search engine INSPEC to find some physics papers that I need. The problem is that I need to know the number of citations but can't find this anywhere. I know there is a way of finding them, but I just can't work out how. If anyone knows, I'd be very grateful :D
I am having a problem with bibtex when I have a second paper by the same author (or at least the same lead author) in a single year.
For example if I have two papers, with the following authors:
Paper 1 - Author 1, Author 2, Author 3, Author 4 (2008)
Paper 2 - Author 1, Author 5, Author...
Conference papers.....
Hi,
I am new to this forum and also to this field of electrical engineering which also includes the topis of electronics. I want to know about the link of the institute of the best conference and technical papers...
Which are the best institutes to submit such...
Hi,
Some of you may have read this article about defence of Bohmian trajectories against ESSW papers.
Quantum Trajectories, Real, Surreal or an Approximation to a Deeper Process?
B. J. Hiley, R. E. Callaghan and O. Maroney.
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0010020"
In a nutshell it...
What are the best up-to-date summary/ introduction articles to the current state of quantum gravity, for someone who knows some QFT and GR? Articles with formulas in it, but written in a more pedagogical tone.
thanks
Any suggestions on how to cope with foreign languages in journal papers? Say you want to read a proof of a certain theorem. But the ONLY published proof of that theorem is in Russian, and it has never been translated in English. Other than learning Russian, any suggestions on how to learn the...
The following email was sent out via the computational neuroscience mailing list [Comp-neuro]. Since Comp-neuro is a public list I think it is fine to repost this here (I am not the author). Perhaps someone will find this useful...
-Cincinnatus...
So much potentially important QG reserach appeared this quarter (April-June 2008) that for simplicity I have split the list in two. Papers solely by graduate students and postdocs (no faculty co-author) are discussed in another thread:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=243004
In...
Which of these papers do you think will prove most valuable for future research? For brevity, papers are designated by their authors. So much potentially important QG research appeared during the second quarter (April-June 2008) that for simplicity I split the list in two. The following are...
What is your favorite way of finding out about what is going on?
I don’t suppose that anyone has the time to read all the papers that are published.
If you are not working in a particular field, ( hehehe … meaning … you are an amateur) but are interested in finding out what is happening, what...
Found the following. I leave the comment to the experts.
http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/108833/files/
Y. Wiaux, P. Vielva, R.B. Barreiro, E. MartÃnez-González and P. Vandergheynst, Non-Gaussianity analysis on local morphological measures of WMAP data, Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., Vol. 385...
Loll will deliver three one-hour talks at Oporto in mid July Here's the abstract
Renate Loll, Quantum Gravity from Causal Dynamical Triangulations
Abstract:
I discuss motivation, implementation and results of the nonperturbative approach to quantum gravity based on Causal Dynamical...
Two best QG papers so far this quarter--other ideas?
Part of doing regular QG NEWS AND OVERVIEW has been having a poll every three months to get people's views on the papers appearing that quarter which they think will be most important for future research----a Most Valuable Paper (MVP)...
We have had some discussion of this in earlier threads.
Alain Connes et al have been able to derive the standard menu of particles from a certain spectral triple, in Noncommutative Geometry (NCG).
On the other hand, Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) as developed by Rovelli, Smolin and many others is...