{"content":[{"text":"OPINION: The truth behind the Panama papers","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.303802,"width":0.39843500000000004,"height":0.019089999999999996}},{"text":"Apr 29 2016 Robert Mazur","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.337293,"width":0.21473599999999998,"height":0.01916000000000001}},{"text":"Media reports are overflowing with proclamations from world leaders about how aghast they \n are following the Panama Papers revelations: 11.5 million secret documents from a Panama \n law firm which revealed money trails leading to tax cheats, the politically powerful, and big- \n time criminals.","bbox":{"left":0.131176,"top":0.391612,"width":0.732234,"height":0.06692799999999999}},{"text":"They claim to have a remedy: more regulation to require people to disclose information \n about the beneficial ownership of companies. Really? Surely it has not taken the Panama \n Papers to get the leaders of the free world to acknowledge this problem. It seems more likely \n they are now shuddering at the thought of the will of the people turning its attention to a \n problem politicians have long been aware of, but did nothing about.","bbox":{"left":0.131176,"top":0.47146,"width":0.736237,"height":0.08291300000000001}},{"text":"The reality is, perhaps, that it is impossible to regulate morality. Perhaps world leaders \n should stop wasting everyone's time and money by simply introducing new regulations which \n unscrupulous professionals will dance around. Most of what has shaken the ground on these \n issues came to the world's notice through whistleblowers.","bbox":{"left":0.131176,"top":0.567294,"width":0.7368250000000001,"height":0.06692700000000007}},{"text":"Every government needs to enhance the financial rewards made to whistleblowers; the \n administrative assistant in the law firm in Grand Cayman that knows teams of lawyers are \n aiding criminals should get a significant reward for turning over proof of that to governments.","bbox":{"left":0.131176,"top":0.647142,"width":0.732128,"height":0.05094299999999996}},{"text":"Amnesty in return for voluntary disclosures?","bbox":{"left":0.131176,"top":0.711151,"width":0.38444200000000006,"height":0.01909000000000005}},{"text":"Other governments should perhaps mirror what the United States has done ever since the \n UBS scandal broke: offer amnesty for tax cheats who used offshore scams, provided they \n make voluntary disclosures before their government learned of their evasion. They should \n pay stiff fines, penalties and all back taxes.","bbox":{"left":0.131176,"top":0.742975,"width":0.715323,"height":0.06692799999999988}},{"text":"They should also have to answer truthfully every question put to them by investigators, \n which will identify the professionals that serviced them in banks, law firms and other \n companies. That information can then be used in criminal prosecutions of every professional \n involved in this intentional evasion of taxes and/or money laundering.","bbox":{"left":0.131176,"top":0.822824,"width":0.733155,"height":0.06692799999999999}},{"text":"Page 1 of 4","bbox":{"left":0.808431,"top":0.920845,"width":0.07395600000000002,"height":0.017635000000000067}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.117255,"top":0.09,"width":0.172549,"height":0.066667},{"left":0.117647,"top":0.172424,"width":0.219412,"height":0.11553}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.117255,"top":0.09,"width":0.172549,"height":0.066667},{"left":0.117647,"top":0.172424,"width":0.219412,"height":0.11553}]}