Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

Jake Bernstein - Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers
Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite
July 14

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the
world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money,
political corruption, and fraud on a global scale.

A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global
finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax
evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks
the identities of the individuals who benefit from these
activities, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to
look the other way.

In Secrecy World, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved,
drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the
Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonsecaa trove now known as the Panama
Papersas well as other journalistic and government investigations.
Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the
superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide
cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and
corrupt politicians across the globe.

Bernstein traveled to the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and
within the United States to uncover how these strands fit
togetherwho is involved, how they operate, and the real-world
impact. He recounts how Mossack Fonseca was exposed and what lies
ahead for the corporations, banks, law firms, individuals, and
governments that are implicated.

Secrecy World offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the
world really works and raises critical questions about financial
and legal institutions we may once have trusted.

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