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    Back to Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Where the world’s richest people are parking their money: Pandora Papers investigates

    Millions of newly released documents show that some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are using tax havens and shell companies to hide their vast wealth from tax authorities and criminal investigators.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Oct 4, 2021 • 8m Listen

    Millions of newly released documents show that some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are using tax havens and shell companies to hide their vast wealth from tax authorities and criminal investigators. In Malibu, records show offshore companies linked to the king of Jordan spent $70 million on three adjacent homes overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

    The trove of confidential records is called the Pandora Papers. They were obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The Washington Post has spent a year going through them.

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    The full episode

    2 of 5
    Treating animals hurt by OC oil spill, resuming LA Opera with focus on diversity
    1. 0:00Preview Supreme Court’s new term: Abortion, guns, terrorism
    2. 10:00Where the world’s richest people are parking their money: Pandora Papers investigatesYou’re reading this
    3. 18:15Massive oil spill in OC endangers birds, seals, sea lions. Wildlife care workers are preparing for the worst
    4. 25:42One of Hollywood’s biggest unions authorizes a nationwide strike for the first time
    5. 34:44The LA Opera focuses on race and class in its first in-person show since COVID pandemic
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