Panama Papers Study Questions #3 [pg 176-243]


1. Who is Christoph Zollinger and how does he engage in legal hair-splitting?

 

 

2. How does British author Nicholas Shaxson describe the offshore industry?

 

 

3. Why did Joseph Kabila approve the deal with Caprikat and Foxwhelp even though they underbid the contract?

 

 

4. What name does Jean Ziegler apply to the offshore underworld and what does he say its impact is on the developing world?

 

 

5. What is the paradox of plenty and what did US economist Jeffrey Sachs observe about it?

 

 

6. Who is Edmund W. and why is his service to Mossack Fonseca so important?

 

 

7. Who is Andrew M. and why does his case suggest that Mossack Fonseca's verification process of who they were doing business with was lax?

 

 

8. Why is Chinese president Xi Jingping's rhetoric about transparency apparently ineffective at best and hypocritical at worst?

 

 

9. What is particularly scandalous about the timing of Petro Poroshenko's establishment of Prime Asset Partners Ltd.?

 

 

10. What allusion did the authors have in mind when they used the term "The Panama Papers"?