Pouco se comenta sobre isso, mas o que salta aos olhos na primeira leitura que se tem dos documentos publicados no vazamento mais amplo de arquivos de paraísos fiscais da história, é a profusão de autoridades de países pobres, com milionários investimentos em offshores.
O povo é pobre, mas suas autoridades são milionárias e por vezes bilionárias, com dinheiro desviado dos cofres públicos para benefício individual ou familiar.
O Pandora Papers desvenda um seleto grupo de ministros e auxiliares que vão desde o ex-Primeiro Ministro inglês Tony Blair a embaixadores, emires, presidentes, etc. 3 nomes, entre os mais poderosos, são ligados diretamente ao presidente da Rússia, Vladmir Putin. Da Colômbia, 3 ex-presidentes tem seus nomes relacionados com as offshores.
A imprensa internacional também destaca com surpresa, a presença entre outros do Ministro da Economia do Brasil, Paulo Guedes.
Além do Brasil e da Colômbia, aparecem na lista dos mais poderosos, países como Paraguai, Peru, Haiti, Panamá, Mongolia, Malta, Georgia, Libano, Qatar, Uganda, Zimbábue, etc.
A relação de autoridades de países pobres, em sua maioria nesta lista de poderosos, surpreende, visto que seus povos passam por necessidade extrema em alguns casos.
Sobre Paulo Guedes o International Consortium of Investigative Journalists afirma:
“Paulo Guedes is Brazil’s minister of the economy. He was appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing populist who took office in 2019 vowing to end corruption. Guedes, a co-founder of the investment bank BTG Pactual, was one of Bolsonaro’s top campaign advisers.
“Shortly after Bolsonaro’s victory, Brazilian authorities launched an investigation to determine whether Guedes mismanaged state pension funds as an investment banker. Guedes denied wrongdoing. A federal court closed the investigation in October 2020.
“Unlike many of Bolsonaro’s cabinet members, Guedes is not a former military officer. He has a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman. Guedes went on to become one of the “Chicago Boys,” a group of Friedman-trained economists who pursued a free-market approach to Chile’s economy under dictator Augusto Pinochet.
“Bolsonaro has backed Guedes’ proposals for cutting taxes and reducing government debt amid political strife and corruption investigations.
“The Pandora Papers reveal that Guedes has been one of the shareholders and directors of Dreadnoughts International Group, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in 2014. Guedes set up the company with the help of Trident Trust. The leaked files list his daughter as a joint shareholder and co-director. In 2015, Guedes added his wife as a shareholder.
“Dreadnoughts was active in the British Virgin Islands as of August 2021. It is unclear from company records whether Guedes still has a role in the company.
“A spokesperson for Guedes’s office told ICIJ that he declared his ownership of Dreadnoughts to tax authorities and withdrew from private investment activity upon taking office in order to comply with Brazilian law“. Power Players
O International Consortium of Investigative Journalists faz um aviso em seu site ressaltando que nem toda offshore é ilegal, e que seu uso para administrar recursos financeiros poderá se legal dentro de determinadas circunstâncias:
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