Torch Secrets

Monsignor Perlasca


Share Purchase agreement betweeen ​GUTT SA, Athena Capital Fund Sicav-​Fis S.C.A. and the Vatican Secretariat ​of State.

Family of Sergei ​Chemezov


Sergei Chemezov heads Rostec, Russia’s ​state-owned defense and technology ​conglomerate, and is widely considered one ​of President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies. ​The men met as young KGB officers working ​in East Germany.

Juan Manuel Santos


Juan Manuel Santos has been Colombia’s ​president since 2010, having served ​previously as finance minister from 2000 to ​2002 and foreign trade minister from 1991 ​to 1994. He received the Nobel Peace Prize ​in 2016 for contributing to the end of the ​nation’s long-running internal conflict with ​the Marxist guerrilla organization known as ​FARC.

Cardinal Parolin


Declaration of the appointment of ​His Excellency Most Reverend ​Monsignor Edgar Pena Parra, Titular ​Archbishop of Telepte, as substitute ​of the General Affairs Section of the ​Secretariat of State.

Malcolm Turnbull


Malcolm Bligh Turnbull, a former journalist ​who made a fortune as a lawyer and ​merchant banker, entered politics in 2004. ​Before becoming Prime Minister in ​September 2015, Turnbull held several ​ministerial positions and led Australia’s ​opposition party between September 2008 ​and December 2009.

ABC Investments


ABC Investments Balance Account at ​Attijariwafa Bank.

Mikhail Fridman


Mikhail Fridman is a co-founder of Alfa ​Bank, the largest privately-owned bank in ​Russia, along with German Khan. Their ​business partner, Petr Aven, served ​as the ​bank's president for many years and ​remains a principal owner. The bank is part ​of the trio’s Alfa Group, a major Russian ​private investment company ​with interests ​in energy and telecommunications.

Juan Manuel Santos


Juan Manuel Santos has been Colombia’s ​president since 2010, having served ​previously as finance minister from 2000 to ​2002 and foreign trade minister from 1991 ​to 1994. He received the Nobel Peace Prize ​in 2016 for contributing to the end of the ​nation’s long-running internal conflict with ​the Marxist guerrilla organization known as ​FARC.

Arkady and Boris

Rotenberg


Billionaire brothers Arkady and Boris ​Rotenberg had the incredible good fortune ​of being childhood friends of Russian ​President Vladimir Putin. As teenagers, they ​bonded with Putin over Sambo, a Russian ​martial art, and judo.

Ivan Khodov


Ivan Khodov, former employee of SIBUR, ​one of Russia's largest LPG producers ​overseeing commercial operations at ​Gulans Energy s.r.o.

Emmanuel Lowila


Emmanuel Lomoro Lowila was South ​Sudan’s ambassador to the European Union, ​Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg ​from 2015 to 2021. He previously served as a ​top adviser to South Sudan’s president, ​Salva Kiir, and as a deputy ambassador to ​France.

Rami Makhlouf


Rami Makhlouf, reportedly Syria’s ​wealthiest man, is the cousin of Syrian ​President Bashar Assad. Makhlouf was a ​shareholder in four Lebanese companies ​created between 2001 and 2003, before ​Syrian troops officially withdrew from ​Lebanon in 2005 after 29 years of military ​occupation.

Jean Claude N’Da Ametchi


Jean-Claude N’Da Ametchi is a banking ​executive from the Ivory Coast. In April ​2011, the European Union sanctioned N’Da ​Ametchi for allegedly helping to fund the ​“illegitimate administration” of former ​president Laurent Gbagbo.

Andersson Alejandro ​Boscan Pico


Investigative report about Andersson ​Alejandro Boscan Pico.

Family of Former ​President


Dariga Nazarbeyeva, eldest daughter of ​Kazakhstan's long-serving former president ​Nursultan Nazarbayev, is a member of the ​country’s lower house of Parliament, known ​as the Mazhilis, and she has been touted as a ​potential ruler since her father’s resignation ​in 2019.

Blairo Borges Maggi


Blairo Borges Maggi is Brazil’s agriculture ​minister. Before that he was a senator and ​governor of the state of Mato Grosso. Maggi ​and other family members appear in ​Appleby records as beneficial owners of ​Amaggi & LD Commodities International Ltd.

Mounir Majidi


Mounir Majidi, a businessman and ​entrepreneur with an MBA degree from Pace ​University in New York, became the personal ​secretary to the King Mohammed VI of ​Morocco, in 2000. Two years later, the king ​appointed Majidi to be head of SIGER.

BSI State Secretariat for ​General Affairs


Athena Global Opportunities fund, already ​Commodities Fund EUR . Athena Global ​Opportunities fund, already Commodities ​Fund EUR.

Inflows and outflows details.

Sultan bin Khalifa Al ​Nahyan


Sheikh Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, the ​eldest son of United Arab Emirates ​President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, is the ​chairperson of SBK Holding LLC, a UAE ​conglomerate that includes companies in ​the petrochemical, aviation and hospitality ​sectors.

Tommy and Mamiek ​Suharto


Indonesian dictator Suharto, who was in ​power from 1967 to 1998 is remembered as ​having presided over one of the most brutal ​and corrupt governments of the past ​century. Hutomo Mandala Putra, better ​known as Tommy Suharto, is his youngest ​son and Mamiek is his youngest daughter.

Saudi Crown Prince


Mohammad bin Naif bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, ​Saudi Arabia’s interior minister and ​counterterrorism chief, is next in line to the ​throne after King Salman elevated him twice ​in the line of succession in 2015.

Giovanni Calabrò


Sentence and request for review of the same ​sentence of six years and three months of ​imprisonment for fraudulent bankruptcy at ​Algol Product S.p.A.

Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed ​An Nahyan


Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan is a ​prominent member of Abu Dhabi’s royal ​family and a renowned billionaire ​businessman. He is the son of Sheikh Zayed ​bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the United Arab ​Emirates’ founding father.

Erkam and Bulent Yildirim


Erkam and Bulent Yildirim are the adult sons ​of Binali Yıldırım, the prime minister of ​Turkey since May 2016. The Yildirim family ​has made its fortune in the shipping ​industry. Erkam operates his own shipping ​business.

Javier Molina Bonilla


Mounir Majidi, a businessman and ​entrepreneur with an MBA degree from Pace ​University in New York, became the personal ​secretary to the King Mohammed VI of ​Morocco, in 2000. Two years later, the king ​appointed Majidi to be head of SIGER.

Court of Appeal of ​Rome


Court of Appeal of Rome, First Civil ​Section, Sentence of Calfin ​Partecipazioni e Gestioni S.r.l.

Ramalingam Paskaralingam


Ramalingam Paskaralingam, also known as ​“Paski,” wielded influence as a bureaucrat ​and as an adviser to three of Sri Lanka’s ​leaders. From 1989 to 1994, Paskaralingam ​served as secretary to the country’s finance ​ministry under President Ranasinghe ​Premadasa, who was assassinated in 1993

Anton Prigodski


Anton Prigodsky, a business executive, was a ​member of the Ukrainian parliament from ​2006 to 2014, and served on the ​Parliamentary Committee on Transport and ​Communications. Before entering politics, ​he was also the director of Embrol Ukraine ​Ltd. , a company engaged in coal and coke ​production and railway transportation.

Konrad Mizzi


Konrad Mizzi is the minister of energy and ​health of the Republic of Malta. He was ​elected to Parliament in 2013 and became ​the deputy leader of Malta’s ruling Labour ​Party in February 2016.

Credit Suisse


Subscription Agreement Athena ​Capital Commodities Fund, ATHENA ​CAPITAL FUND, SICAV-FIS

Svetlana Krivonogikh


Svetlana Krivonogikh, a former cleaner from ​St. Petersburg, is reported to have been in a ​hidden, years-long romantic relationship ​with Russian President Vladimir Putin. ​According to a 2020 investigation by the ​Russian investigative group Proekt, the ​relationship started in the 1990s, before ​Putin became president, and continued into ​the early 2000s.

Yukio Hatoyama


Yukio Hatoyama was Japan’s prime minister ​from 2009 to 2010. He resigned after only ​nine months in power after a term mired in ​fundraising irregularities and his inability to ​follow through on a campaign pledge to ​relocate U.S. troops from Okinawa.

Néstor Grindetti


Néstor Grindetti served as finance minister ​of Buenos Aires when the city was led by ​current Argentine President Mauricio Macri. ​In December 2015, Grindetti was sworn in as ​mayor of Lanús, an industrial city south of ​Buenos Aires but still within the greater ​Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

Deutsche Bank


Deutsche Bank Subscription Agreements for ​50.000.000 USD Class I Shares in Athena ​Capital Commodities Fund.

Siniša Mali


Siniša Mali worked as a consultant for ​Deloitte, the multinational accounting and ​business advisory firm, before entering ​politics in 2001. Initially, he helped lead ​Serbia’s privatization efforts, as the country ​transitioned to democracy Then, in 2013, he ​became a senior government adviser for ​economic affairs.

Alfred Gusenbauer


Alfred Gusenbauer was Austria’s chancellor ​from January 2007 to December 2008 and ​headed the Social Democratic Party of ​Austria from 2000 to 2008. Gusenbauer is ​one of the directors and legal ​representatives of Novia Management Ltd. , ​a company registered in Malta in 2014.

Rami and Hafez Makhlouf


Néstor Grindetti served as finance minister ​of Buenos Aires when the city was led by ​current Argentine President Mauricio Macri. ​In December 2015, Grindetti was sworn in as ​mayor of Lanús, an industrial city south of ​Buenos Aires but still within the greater ​Buenos Aires metropolitan area.

Del Nogal Marquez Walter ​Alexander


Violations of Foreign Narcotics Kingpin ​Sanctions Regulations

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad ​Al Thani


Qatar’s ruler, Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad ​Al Thani, descends from a family that has ​ruled the tiny Arabian Peninsula country, ​home to the world’s third-largest natural gas ​reserve, for nearly 170 years. Tamim rose to ​power in 2013 after his father abdicated the ​throne.

Alfred Gusenbauer


Alfred Gusenbauer was Austria’s chancellor ​from January 2007 to December 2008 and ​headed the Social Democratic Party of ​Austria from 2000 to 2008. Gusenbauer is ​one of the directors and legal ​representatives of Novia Management Ltd. , ​a company registered in Malta in 2014.

Giuseppe D. Nicosia


Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia, an advertising ​executive, is on the lam from Italian ​authorities following accusations of ​involvement in a $50 million tax fraud ​scheme that allegedly sold advertising space ​and fraudulently claimed value added tax ​credits.

Bank of The Bahamas ​Limited


Bank Statement LDN-HOLY-60SA 7.500.000 ​USD

Paulo Guedes


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.

Bukola Saraki


Bukola Saraki is the president of Nigeria’s ​Senate, which makes him the third most ​powerful politician in Nigeria. Saraki was ​director and a shareholder of Tenia Ltd., a ​company established in the Cayman Islands ​in April 2001. Appleby’s records describe ​Tenia Ltd. as a “holding company.”

João Lyra


João José Pereira de Lyra was once Brazil’s ​richest member of Parliament, worth an ​estimated $140 million. He served in the ​Brazilian Congress several times over the ​years, in the Senate from 1989 to 1991 and ​in the House from 2003 to 2007 and again ​from 2011 to to 2015.

Fenton Whelan


Offer for the purchase of the office in 60 ​Sloane Avenue.

Ricardo Martinelli


Ricardo Martinelli, a supermarket tycoon ​and politician, served as president of ​Panama from 2009 to 2014, after winning ​his second bid for the office. He previously ​served in a number of government positions.

Suat M. Mynabayev


Sauat Mukhametbayevich Mynbayev was ​Kazakhstan’s oil and gas minister from 2010 ​to 2013, having previously served as the ​country’s minister of energy and mineral ​resources from 2007 to 2010, minister of ​industry from 2004 to 2006 and minister of ​finance from 1998 to1999.

Juan Hinojosa


Juan Armando Hinojosa, who has been ​called Mexican President Enrique Peña ​Nieto's "favorite contractor," runs a well-​connected business empire that secured at ​least $750 million in business with ​government agencies.

Giusti Marco


Interrogation’s attendance register for ​money laundering

Kostantin Ernst


Konstantin Ernst has been in charge of ​Russia’s leading TV station, Channel One, ​since 1999. He has been credited with ​helping to create President Vladimir Putin’s ​political persona, and of broadcasting ​propagandistic news stories that conform to ​the Kremlin’s agenda. Ernst started out as a ​producer of “Vzglyad (Viewpoint)”.

Brian Mulroney


Brian Mulroney served as prime minister of ​Canada from 1984 to 1993 as leader of the ​Progressive Conservative Party and is now a ​law partner in Montreal. He signed the ​predecessor to the North American Free ​Trade Agreement and has been called “one ​of the architects of today's global ​economy.”

Mauricio Macri


Argentine President Mauricio Macri ​appeared headed for a business career, ​working his way up under the tutelage of his ​father, Italian-born business tycoon, ​Francisco Macri. But in 1991, he was ​kidnapped for ransom by federal police ​officers – a turning point that led him to ​politics.

Gafta


Arbitration pursuant to the arbitration rules ​no. 125 of the grain and feed trade ​association. GTS TRADING DMCC

Martin Rushwaya


Martin Rushwaya is a top adviser to ​Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson ​Mnangagwa, who is also his cousin. ​Rushwaya has been involved in politics and ​government since 1996, when he became the ​administrator of one of Zimbabwe’s most ​mineral-rich provinces. He served as ​secretary of defense for 10 years, beginning ​in 2009.

Ellen J. Sirleaf


Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has served as the ​president of Liberia since 2006. Before her ​presidency, Johnson Sirleaf was a director of ​Databank, a financial services provider based ​in the West African country of Ghana. ​Johnson Sirleaf was listed as a director of ​the Bermuda company Songhai Financial ​Holdings Ltd.

Daniel Muñoz


Daniel Muñoz was the private secretary and ​confidant of former Argentinian president ​Néstor Kirchner. Muñoz later also served for ​two years as an aide to Néstor Kirchner’s ​wife, Cristina Férnandez de Kirchner, who ​was president of Argentina from 2007 to ​2015.

Henry James Fitzsimons - ​Lagmore Developments ​Ltd.


Former IRA Bomber Arrested over mafia ​money laundering in connections with ​Antonio Valente.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy


Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian actor and ​politician who played the role of president of ​Ukraine for years on a popular national ​sitcom before launching a successful bid for ​the country’s actual presidency Zelenskyy ​created a political party and named it after ​his television show, Servant of the People.

Ravindra K. Sinha


Ravindra Kishore Sinha, a former journalist ​also known as RK Sinha, is a member of the ​Indian Parliament’s upper house and the ​chairman of Hindustan Samachar, a news ​agency backed by an organization behind ​the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Amazon Atlas


WikiLeaks publishes a "Highly Confidential" ​internal document from the cloud computing ​provider Amazon. The document from late ​2015 lists the addresses and some ​operational details of over one hundred data ​centers spread across fifteen cities in nine ​countries.

Mohammad Mustafa


Mohammad Mustafa, chairman of the ​Palestine Investment Fund, has been a close ​confidant to Palestinian Authority President ​Mahmoud Abbas since Hamas took over the ​Gaza strip in 2007. A former senior official of ​the World Bank.

Marogna Cecilia


Court order to revoke/replace the ​precautionary measure of detention in prison ​in the interest of Marogna Cecilia

Shaukat Tarin


Shaukat Tarin is a businessman who worked ​in the banking sector for more than 40 ​years. He first served as Pakistan’s finance ​minister from 2008 to 2010 under former ​Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and ​resigned to raise funds for Silkbank Ltd., a ​Pakistani commercial bank.

Antanas Guoga


Antanas Guoga is a member of the European ​Parliament from Lithuania and a professional ​poker champion also known as Tony G. ​Guoga is a founder and former shareholder ​of iBus Media Ltd., a gambling news publisher ​on the Isle of Man.

Dealmaker: AI Yousef


WikiLeaks publishes a secret document from ​the International Chamber of Commerce ​(ICC) International Court of Arbitration, ​pertaining to a dispute over commission ​payment in relation to a $3.6 billion arms ​deal between French state-owned company ​GIAT Industries SA (now Nexter Systems) ​and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Statement from the ​Vatican City State Tribunal


The court found Monsignor Becciu and ​Raffaele Mincione guilty of the crime of ​embezzlement in direct relation with the ​Secretariat of State, to obtain the payment ​of the money even without the conditions ​foreseen having occurred, as well as, in ​complicity with them, Fabrizio Tirabassi, ​employee of the Administration Office, and ​Enrico Crasso.

Sebastián Piñera


Sebastián Piñera launched a credit card ​company in the 1970s, and served in Chile’s ​Senate for most of the 1990s, before ​running for president twice. The Bancard ​founder is worth an estimated $2.8 billion. ​Piñera was first elected president in 2010, ​and he won his second term in 2018.

Shaukat Aziz


Shaukat Aziz was Pakistan’s prime minister ​from 2004 to 2007, after serving a five-year ​stint as the country’s finance minister. Aziz, ​who worked for Citibank before starting his ​career as a politician, was one of the ​shareholders and directors of Bahamas-​registered Cititrust Limited from 1997 to ​1999, along with other executives of the ​bank.

Vault 8: Hive


WikiLeaks publishes the source code and ​development logs to Hive, a major ​component of the CIA infrastructure to ​control its malware. Hive solves a critical ​problem for the malware operators at the ​CIA. Even the most sophisticated malware ​implant on a target computer is useless if ​there is no way for it to communicate with ​its operators.

Dragomir Perc


Mauritius Commercial Bank Statement for ​4.000.000 USD.

Mauritius Commercial Bank Statement for ​10.700.000 USD

Guillermo Lasso


Guillermo Lasso is the president of Ecuador. ​A former banker, he founded the Creating ​Opportunities (CREO) Party in 2012. After ​unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 2013 ​and 2017, he was elected last April and ​sworn into office in May . e previously ​served as Ecuador’s itinerant ambassador in ​2003.

Jose Maria Figueres


Shaukat Aziz was Pakistan’s prime minister ​from 2004 to 2007, after serving a five-year ​stint as the country’s finance minister. Aziz, ​who worked for Citibank before starting his ​career as a politician, was one of the ​shareholders and directors of Bahamas-​registered Cititrust Limited from 1997 to ​1999, along with other executives of the ​bank.

Spy Files Russia


WikiLeaks starts publishing the series "Spy ​Files Russia" with documents from the ​Russian company Петер-Сервис (PETER-​SERVICE). This release includes 209 ​documents (34 base documents in different ​versions) dated between 2007 and 2015.

Devasini Giancarlo


Attorney general of the State of New York ​Investor Protection Bureau. Fraud in ​connection with the Bitfinex trading platform ​and related matters.

Juan Carlos Varela


Juan Carlos Varela ran his family-owned ​distillery, the largest in Panama, before ​entering politics. He joined the Panamanian ​government in 2009 as then-President ​Ricardo Martinelli’s vice president and ​foreign minister. At the time, Jaime Alemán, ​a partner of the Panamanian law firm ​Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee (Alcogal), ​was Panama’s ambassador to the United ​States, reporting to Varela.

Henrique Mirelles


Henrique de Campos Meirelles took office as ​Brazil’s finance minister in May 2016 amid ​the impeachment proceedings of then-​President Dilma Rousseff. Meirelles worked ​for BankBoston in the United States for ​nearly three decades, after which he served ​as Brazil’s top central banker from 2003 ​through 2011.

Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tool ​Revealed


A new series of leaks on the U.S. Central ​Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" ​by WikiLeaks, it is the largest ever ​publication of confidential documents on ​the agency.

Vatican City Court


Court summons decree and charges for ​Mauro Carlino, Enrico Crasso, Tommaso di ​Ruzza, Cecilia Marogna, Raffaele Mincione, ​Nicola Squillace, Fabrizio Tirabassi, Gianluigi ​Torzi, René Brulhart and for the companies: ​Logsic - Humanitarne Dejavnosti by Cecilia ​Marogna, and Presitge Family Office SA, ​Sogenel Capital Investment, HP Finance by ​Enrico Crasso.

Francisco Flores


Francisco Flores was president of El ​Salvador from 1999 to 2004, a tenure ​marked by the country’s alignment with ​United States policy in Central America, the ​replacement of the Salvadoran currency ​with the U.S. dollar, and allegations of ​personal corruption. An Oxford- and ​Harvard-educated scion of a wealthy family, ​Flores had earlier held several government ​positions as a member of the conservative ​Arena party.

Jean Chrétien


Jean Chrétien was prime minister of Canada ​from 1993 to 2003, winning two re-election ​campaigns. Bermuda-registered Madagascar ​Oil Limited awarded options to Chretien in ​July 2007 as a consulting fee, according to ​documents in the Appleby files. Madagascar ​Oil was formed to explore and drill for oil in ​Madagascar.

Bank of Spies


During the War on Terror, international ​strategy relied on intelligence officials from ​regimes accused of corruption and torture. ​Several of these spies and their families held ​large sums at Credit Suisse.

Governorate of the Vatican ​City State


letter terminating the financial consultancy ​relationship with WRM Capital Asset ​Management S.à.r.l.

NSA Targets World ​Leaders


Highly classified documents showing that ​the US National Security Agency bugged a ​private climate change strategy meeting; ​between UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon ​and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in ​Berlin.