Paradise Papers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 younge​st daughte​r.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.