From the treasurer of the French president François Hollande (whose case is published by Le Monde), shareholder of two offshore companies in the Caymans, to two hundred Italian names, the first four of which will be revealed tomorrow by Espresso. It is the worldwide scandal of tax evasion, the result of a journalistic investigation conducted by an international consortium of journalists on the foreign accounts of politicians and personalities in sight all over the world.
The new Wikileaks brings to light a global club of tax evaders who hide money in tax havens such as the Cayman Islands, which would also include 200 Italians. The documentation, which is referred to on all the major sites as "the hardest attack on the black hole of the world economy" is made up of thousands of files collected in just over a year by an international team of journalists.
For Italy, L'Espresso exclusively publishes the investigation carried out by the Washington media network. The weekly, in the issue on newsstands tomorrow, presents the first four stories of Italians who play a role in two colossal conglomerates of offshore companies created in the tax havens of the Cook Islands and the British Virgin Islands. The first concerns Gaetano Terrin, at the time accountant of the Tremonti firm: “A trust in the Cook Islands, a tax haven in Polynesia – is the anticipation of the periodical – which has as custodian Gaetano Terrin, at the time accountant of the Tremonti firm. An offshore company in the Virgin Islands which indicates Fabio Ghioni, hacker of the Telecom scandal, as the beneficiary. A complex financial system linked to three Lombard families of entrepreneurs and jewelers. Finally, a trust that brings back the Milanese accountants Oreste and Carlo Severgnini as directors, who hold professional positions in the most important Italian groups”.
