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 youngest daughter.
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.