In the 11 and a half million documents kept by the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and passed on by an informant to the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, the names of important banks appear: Swiss, British, Italian, but above all German, which are as many as 28. According to the Bloomberg agency, among others, HSBC and UBS, Credit Suisse, Société Générale are mentioned , Royal Bank Of Scotland (bailed out with public money in 2008). There are for Italy Ubi and Unicredit.
So I'm in Germany 28 lenders, included Deutsche Bank e Commerzbank, would have resorted to the Panama City study. And several thousand private Germans.
Some institutions are already moving: in particular the tax authorities in Australia, who are working on the more than 800 names of Australian citizens enclosed in the files; while in France François Hollande has announced an investigation into a thousand French names, among which Frederic Chatillon, collaborator of Marine Le Pen, stands out.
In Madrid, magistrates and the Ministry of Finance will verify the existence of "alleged criminal money laundering activities", while the Icelandic premier Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson it is on the grill of the oppositions who have presented a motion of no confidence. But she has no intention of resigning. The papers revealed that his wife's inheritance, about $4 million, was invested in securities of three banks that failed in 2008.
