Argentina widely cited in Pandora Papers

The ICIJ has notably found traces of offshore accounts linked to football players, such as Ángel Di María, and Javier Mascherano.

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With the Pandora Papers, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveals how hundreds of personalities and politicians around the world have hidden their money in tax havens.

Argentina is not spared, and is even among the countries most cited in this new survey.

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With our correspondent in Buenos Aires,

Théo Conscience

The word Argentina appears over 57,000 times in the Pandora Papers.

Among the tens of thousands of owners of offshore companies identified in these secret documents, 2,521 are Argentines.

This is more than for any other country except Russia and UK.

La Nación

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Infobae

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ElDiarioAR

, the three Argentine media associated with the ICIJ investigation, have notably found traces of offshore accounts linked to football players, such as Ángel Di María, and Javier Mascherano, but also to relatives former heads of state Mauricio Macri and Cristina Kirchner.

We learn, for example, that the special political adviser and Mauricio Macri's brother have both opened accounts in tax havens.

The latter had also already been pinned by the Panama Papers in 2016. On the side of Cristina Kirchner, this new investigation reveals the offshore activities of Ernesto Clarens, a financier involved in the so-called “corruption notebooks” affair, who had splashed the current vice-president in 2018.

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To read also: The “Pandora Papers” reveal the tax evasion of several heads of state and government

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