Russia Mentioned That The Panama Leaks Just To Discredit Vladmir Putin - Panama Papers Leaks

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - Spokesperson for the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, said that Panama Papers leaked documents that mention the name of Russian President Vladimir Putin related offshore transactions worth billions of dollars in an attempt to discredit Putin ahead of the Russian elections.

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"The main target of this misinformation is our president, especially in the context of the upcoming parliamentary elections and in the context of a long-term perspective-I mean, the presidential elections in the next two years," Dmitry Peskov said in a press conference in Moscow on Monday (4/4).

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A total of 11.5 million leaked documents belonging to foreign law firm Mossack Fonseca based in Panama leaked to the media. Documents of 2.6 terabit is provided by an anonymous source told the German media, the Süddeutsche Zeitung and distributed to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ, and investigated by more than 100 media groups.

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Name Vladimir Putin came up with a fund of US $ 2 billion. The Guardian writes, Putin laundering money through various banks and shell companies in small countries with high financial secrecy.

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Putin called the Russian central bank provided funds to his friend, Sergei Roldugin, to be hidden abroad. These funds are also processed by Yuri Kovalchuk, director of Bank Rossiya, to Mossack Fonseca then loaned to the Bank of Cyprus.

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These banks then give the money to be invested into Russian companies, which go back to Putin. One was to a ski lodge where Putin's daughter, Katerina, married in 2013.

"Putinfobia abroad has reached the point where is taboo to mention something nice about Russia, or about any action by Russia or the Russian achievement. However it is imperative to mention the bad things, bad things, and when there was nothing else she could say, it must be composed. It is the proof, "said Peskov.

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Peskov said that "there was nothing new and concrete" the publication of leaked documents related to it.