> hey remember when the panama papers came out and revealed that all the rich people in the world are part of enormous criminal conspiracy to dodge taxes and hoard stolen wealth in offshore accounts and literally nothing happened
> Daphne Anne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese writer, journalist, blogger and anti-corruption activist, who reported on political events in Malta and was known internationally for her investigation of the Panama Papers, and subsequent assassination by car bomb
Tell that to Swedish writer Håkan Nesser who was sentenced to 1,5 years in prison because of tax evasion that was revealed through the Panama papers.
I’m not claiming everyone involved got busted, but at least for some it had real consequences.
https://www.svt.se/kultur/forfattaren-hakan-nesser-doms-till...
I don't need to be unrealistically optimistic, but it's possible that the situation can be improved a bit and maybe I can play a part in that. Well, if the cost of tax evasion increases by 1%, I can say it's a big win.
Wikipedia has articles covering the list of things that happened in each country in response to the leak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_Panama_Papers
Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_(Europe)
Asia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_(Asia)
North America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_(North_America)
South America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_(South_America)
Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_(Africa)
We didn't get the end of Fight Club or Mr. Robot where the global financial industry collapsed and we abolish money and we all live happily ever after, but "literally nothing happened" is just wrong.
Yes and those are literally the dismissed charges this article discusses.
and of course there have been many regulatory changes since then with regards to KYC/AML. are they enough? (are they even useful compared to how much hassle they are for average people? probably not it tax authorities don't do shit and don't audit rich people. but even that is changing.)