Panama Papers Study Questions #1 [pg 1-87]


1. Why was the informant [John Doe] afraid of attaching his/her name to the information released to Obermayer (unlike Edward Snowden).

 

 

2. Who is Gerard Ryle and what is his relationship to George Soros in the book?

 

 

3. What do the authors find to be "interesting" about MossFon's compliance department?

 

 

4. Why is Peter Beckhoff a wanted man in Switzerland?

 

 

5. Why do the authors claim that many German banks have decided to diminish their involvement in money laundering over the last ten years?

 

 

6. What does the Makhlouf case demonstrate about ow anonymous shell companies pose an existential threat to millions of people?

 

 

7. What precautions did the authors take in handing over a hard drive to their ICIJ counterparts?

 

 

8. What do the authors learn when they enter the term "search warrant" into their new NUIX database?

 

 

9. Why is including a Chinese colleague as an investigator unthinkable?

 

 

10. Why does Mar Cabra like lists?