BUSINESS

How does the Panama leak affect you?

Business, Lawalliance Limited Company, Published on 19/04/2016

» If not for the Songkran festival, the news that 16 Thai names were on the infamous Panama Papers list might have got more attention. However, more worrisome is the Offshore Leaks Database, first released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in 2013. It exposes the names of more than 750 Thailand-based people and entities, Thai and foreign, that are or have been connected with offshore tax-planning structures, mostly in the British Virgin Islands and Panama.