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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 112 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

But yet the FBI did nothing. This turning out to be the Panama Papers all over again.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Iceland protested after finding out their then prime minister is on Panama Papers, and the PM resigned.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Finally a comment about our country that doesn't grossly overstate our accomplishments 😎

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 58 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Law enforcement works for the upperclass against everyone else. Always has.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

Law enforcement protects capital.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There was actually a guy mentioned in the Panama papers who went to prison. Not for the tax fraud, but for the murder of a journalist who was reporting on the tax fraud. Guy hired people to bomb her car, they're all are in prison now.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

but that was the fall guy, not people in the panama papers.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

No, that was literally one of the rich assholes. Daphne Caruana Galizia was reporting on his finacial crimes when he decided that he should just have her killed.

But because that shit does not work like the movies say it does, he and his henchmen all got caught. And since society is not as willing to allow murder as it is financial crimes.

Fenech is a prominent criminal suspect. He was identified in 2018 as being the owner of the Ajman-registered company 17 Black. The company was listed in the Panama Papers and investigative journalist Caruana Galizia had written about 17 Black eight months before her death, alleging the company had links to Joseph Muscat's chief of staff Keith Schembri and to former energy minister Konrad Mizzi.[14] Later, the research group The Daphne Project came across e-mails between 17 Black and two shell companies in Panama, belonging to Mizzi or Schembri. The emails mentioned payments of up to $2 million for unspecified services. Mizzi was then Minister of Energy in Malta, Schembri Chief of Staff of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat.

Fenech was CEO of the Tumas Group and a director of energy company ElectroGas Malta; in 2019 he resigned from both positions.[15] On 25 November 2019 Tumas Group, operators of the Malta Hilton hotel, said that allegations linking Fenech to the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia were "alien to the Tumas Group's values".[16] Group chair and shareholder, Raymond Fenech, and group shareholder Franco Fenech, uncle and brother to Yorgen Fenech,[17] are both implicated in assisting his escape[18] from Malta shortly before his arrest for murder.[19]

Fenech still hasn't gone to trial, but after 5 years in jail he was granted bail. This was not popular, because of the bribery.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 14 hours ago

they blew up that reporter, that sent a message to the others.