Pandora Papers
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.