Panama Papers was made available to the public online. Some people have extracted portions related to Taiwan. There are 2.906 Taiwan’s offshore companies in the papers.
British Virgin Islands is the most popular for Taiwanese businesses, with about 1,700 offshore companies. This prompted the legislature to draft a bill aimed to prevent the rich and powerful using tax havens to avoid taxes.
Aside from businesses, there are a few familiar names in the papers.
MA Wei-Hsin
MA NAN JUNG
MA CHINGWO
MA ERH TAI
MA Der-Lin
MA Yi-Chun
The names can be matched to entity name and address in other tabs.
The timing of the release and the unusual expedient execution of Zheng Jie is suspicious as well.
The timing of the release and the unusual expedient execution of Zheng Jie is suspicious as well.[/quote]
I don’t get it, how are these two matters connected and what is suspicious about it?[/quote]
The current government has a habit of performing executions, or press high profile charges in order to divert national attention away from things they wish to hide.
Examples:
April 19, 2013: 6 people executed. Just that March, a former Ma Ying-jeou Taipei city mayor aid Lai Shu-ru was charged with corruption for the Taipei Twin Tower project which Ma green-lighted.
April 29, 2014: 5 people executed. That execution took place right at the heels of the Sun flower movement, and people exposed the fact that the executive yuan was secretly smuggling the trade in goods agreement by holding phantom public hearings.
June 5, 2015: 6 people executed. Then DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ying-wen was having a high profiled visit to the US.
The current Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is on the list. The release of this information is rather inconvenient timing for him as he’s in an election campaign right now trying to show the common touch.
