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"Putin. Offshore, Impeachment." -- A lone protester holds up a sign in Moscow protesting over the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen to have been implicated in murky financial dealings revealed in the Panama Papers
"Putin. Offshore, Impeachment." -- A lone protester holds up a sign in Moscow protesting over the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen to have been implicated in murky financial dealings revealed in the Panama Papers

Live Blog: The Panama Papers

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Final Summary for April 13

-- The Russian cellist linked by the Panama Papers to murky offshore finances says the money came from donations.

-- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has outlined details of a plan to combat tax havens in the wake of the Panama leaks.

-- British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce that new legislation making companies criminally liable if employees aid tax evasion will be introduced this year

-- -- Cameron had earlier published his tax records in an attempt to draw a line under questions about his personal finances raised by the mention of his late father in the Panama Papers for setting up an offshore fund.

-- The unauthorized use of the International Red Cross's name by entities listed in the Panama Papers poses "enormous" risks for its operations and staff, the head of the humanitarian body said.

-- Several thousand people filled a big square in Malta's capital on April 10 and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat after the leaked Panama Papers said two of his political allies had offshore accounts.

-- Police have raided the El Salvador offices of the Panama-based law firm at the heart of the "Panama Papers" scandal that has revealed how the wealthy in many countries stashed their riches offshore.

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The leader of the United Kingdom's opposition Labour Party gives his views on the Panama Papers fallout:

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The International Red Cross has found itself implicated in the Panama leaks scandal and the organization is not too happy about it, according to this AFP report:

Red Cross Threatened By Unauthorised Panama Papers Link: ICRC Head

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer (file photo)
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Peter Maurer (file photo)

Geneva, April 10, 2016 (AFP) -- The unauthorised use of the International Red Cross's name by entities listed in the Panama Papers poses "enormous" risks for its operations and staff, the head of the humanitarian body said in an interview published Sunday.

Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), made the comments in Le Matin Dimanche, after the Swiss paper detailed how shell companies set up by Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca inaccurately listed the ICRC as their beneficiary.

"The (risks) are enormous. If we were found, for example, to be associated with an offshore company owned by an armed group, I dare not imagine what we could be implicated in," Maurer told the paper.

"We are going to do to everything in our power to stop this abuse," he added.

According to the Swiss paper, Mossack Fonseca set up two entities -- Brotherhood Foundation and Faith Foundation -- which it offered to clients as an asset holding body.

The ICRC was listed as a beneficiary of the two "foundations", without the ICRC's knowledge, a move reportedly allowed under a legal loophole.

"We have never had a relationship with Mossack Fonseca and we have never received money from them," Maurer told the paper.

Read the entire article here

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You can find some nice data visualizations of the fallout from the Panama Papers here:

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And here's another Cameron-related item, courtesy of Reuters:

German Politicians Urge U.K.'s Cameron To Do More In Fight Against Tax Evasion

BERLIN, April 10 (Reuters) -- German politicians have called on British Prime Minister David Cameron to do more in tackling the use of offshore companies set up in British overseas territories to evade taxes.

"We'll only be convincing on the international stage if we are, first of all, fully compliant in the EU and for me, that includes Britain exerting influence over its overseas territories - we need to make that clear to the Brits in upcoming talks," senior conservative politician Ralph Brinkhaus told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.

Carsten Schneider, a budget expert for Germany's Social Democrats, the junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, also said the British prime minister needed to take action in the light of last week's revelations from the "Panama Papers".

Media that have seen the files leaked from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca say more than half of the 200,000 offshore companies set up by the firm were registered in the British Virgin Islands, where details of ownership do not have to be filed with authorities. The law firm denies any wrongdoing.

"If David Cameron still wants to be taken seriously personally and politically in the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion, Britain needs to close the loopholes in its own country immediately," Schneider told Welt am Sonntag.

Earlier on Sunday, Cameron announced he had set up a national task force led by its tax authority and the National Crime Agency to search through the the Panama Papers.

Cameron, who has sought to take the lead internationally in tackling tax avoidance and evasion since Britain hosted a G8 summit in 2013, faced calls from political opponents for his resignation last week after revealing he once had a stake in his late father's own offshore investment trust and profited from it.

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, said Britain had a "huge responsibility" as many tax havens are British overseas territories, like the British Virgin Islands and Cayman Islands, or Crown Dependencies, such as Jersey and the Isle of Man. (Reporting by Michelle Martin; editing by Greg Mahlich)

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And here's a few tweets that have caught our eye:

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