From United Kingdom, Pakistan to Russia, a look at world leaders named in the Pandora Papers

A global investigation has revealed how the rich and powerful have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century A global investigation has revealed how the rich and powerful have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century. JORDAN The investigation found that advisers helped King Abdullah II of Jordan set up at least three dozen shell companies from 1995 to 2017, helping the monarch buy 14 homes worth more than $106 million in the US and the UK One was a $23 million California ocean-view property bought in 2017 through a company in the British Virgin Islands, a tax haven in the Caribbean. UNITED KINGDOM Tony Blair, UK prime minister from 1997 to 2007, became the owner of an $8.8 million Victorian building in 2017 by buying a British Virgin Islands company that held the property, and the building now hosts the law firm of his wife, Cherie Blair, according to the investigation. CHILE The leaked documents revealed Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, one of the country’s wealthiest men, used offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands for dealings involving the Dominga mining project, which his family co-owned in part with a friend. Mikati’s son Maher was a director of at least two British Virgin Islands-based companies, which his father’s Monaco-based company, M1 Group, used to own an office in Central London, according to the report.