Panama report: Lionel Messi, Jackie Chan and Vladimir Putin named among people hiding wealth in tax heaven

A massive leak of information from a law firm in Panama has exposed celebrities Jackie Chan, Lionel Messi and Russian President Vlamir Putin and a host of other big names among people hiding their wealth in tax havens just to evade tax in their country.

Vladimir Putin was not directly named in the report but was allegedly traced back through his associates. Investigators claim he ‘secretly shuffled as much as $2 billion through banks and shadow companies’.

Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi owns a shell company along with his father, Mega Star Enterprises, which was previously unknown to Spanish investigators probing the Barcelona forward’s tax affairs.

An anonymous source leaked the files to German newspaper Sueddeutsche zeitung. The documents came from Mossack Fonseca, a law firm with offices in more than 35 countries.Ramon Fonseca,one of the law firm's founders speaking to the AFP said the leaks were ‘a crime, a felony’ and ‘an attack on Panama’.

‘Certain countries don’t like it that we are so competitive in attracting companies,’ he said.The government of Panama has ‘zero tolerance’ for shady deals and would work with any legal investigations.

Woman allegedly killed her 1yr old child in Imo State and gorged out her eyes (photo)

A woman in Onicha Uboma Autonomous Community in the Ihitte/Uboma Local Government Area, Imo State, identified only as Ifeoma allegedly killed her one-year-old child, gorged out her eyes and drank her blood.

According to Daily Independent, the 39-year-old woman was alleged to have committed the heinous act inside her husband’s shop. Mr. Azubuike Emedom returned from a business trip to find his wife and child missing.

"It was gathered that after searching for them in the neighbourhood without result, Mr. Emedom proceeded to his shop, although he thought it abnormal for them to be in the shop that early. When he got to the shop, he discovered that the shop was locked from the inside, but after repeated knocks and Ifeoma’s failure to open the door, Mr. Emedom was said to have broken down the door, only to find his wife inside, blood on her mouth and the baby wrapped in blood stained cloth. Mr. Emedom uncovered the baby, he discovered that she had died, even as her eye balls were plugged out and blood gushing from the sockets. The baby’s hands and legs were also broken."

A community leader who spoke under anonymity claims that Ifeoma is of a ‘marine spirit.’"

"I believe she used this child for sacrifices, she sucked the blood of the child because by the time we caught her, her mouth was full of blood. She killed the baby intentionally. She always renders sacrifice to their gods in the river. Some months ago, she attempted to kill a woman from our community. She injured the woman with a knife," he said.

The suspect has been arrested and detained at the Ihitte/Uboma Police station.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Andrew Enwerem, the Police Public Relation Officer of the Imo Police Command who confirmed the story said investigations were on going.

Source: Daily Independent via Osai Ovie Success

Diddy signs his son Christian Combs to Bad Boy Records

Sean Diddy Combs son with Kim Porter, Christian Combs, last weekend signed a record deal with his music label, Bad Boy Records as he turned 18 years old. He also wants to be a rapper like his dad!

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Photos: Troops capture six terrorists at Boboshe, Kadawu, recovers IED making devices

Troops of 22 Brigade Garrison, Army Headquarters Strike Group (AHQ SG) accompanied by some Civilian JTF on fighting patrol to Boboshe, Garna, Kyare, Kadawu, Gineba and Ajiri arrested 6 Boko Haram terrorists and recovered Improvised Explosive (IED) making devices today, Sunday April 4, 2016.

Although the fighting patrol team found Boboshe village virtually empty, they however recovered 8 industrial gas cylinders and 5 regular gas cylinders at a Primary School being used for IED making and also recovered a Pickup vehicle
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The patrol team captured 3 Boko Haram terrorists at Kadawu and recovered 4 motorcycles, 3 bicycles 1 solar panel and 2 liquid herbicides.
At Garna, the troops also captured 3 and recovered 7 locally made guns from them.

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Photos: Wayne Rooney celebrates wife Coleen's 30th birthday with football stars

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney sidelined with injury celebrated his wife Coleen Rooney's 30th birthday last night with team-mates past and present including Michael Carrick, Chris Smalling and former United players Darron Gibson, Darren Fletcher, Jonny Evans, John O'Shea and Wes Brown at Victor's Restaurant in Hale Village, Cheshire. More photos after the cut...

20yr old Nigerian, Sasiya Sadashi is the sole survivor after a boat with 85 people, including her sister & brother capsized off Libya

Over 160 migrants are feared to have perished off Libya this week in two separate accidents off the coast of Zawiya, a coastal town that has become the new focal point for departures from the North African coast, Migrant Report said.

On March 30, the Libyan coastguard and an Italian tug boat rescued more than 170 people from two separate boats that ran into trouble around 12 miles off Zawiya. One of the boats had deflated with 140 people on board, while the other collapsed, spilling most of the 85 people on board into the sea.

Only 31 people were rescued from this second boat, while the the entire group from the first vessel was brought back to shore, where survivors were treated by the Libyan Red Crescent (LRC).

However, a day earlier, a coastguard crew on patrol, spotted a woman about 15 miles off Zawiya and pulled her in. She was still alive despite spending three days at sea.

Sasiya Sadashi, 20 from Nigeria, said she was on a rubber boat with 85 other migrants, including her older sister and 19 year old brother, when the vessel started taking in water. The man in charge of steering the boat turned back but in the process the vessel took in more water and suddenly just collapsed.

Sasiya told rescuers everyone ended up in the water in a matter of minutes. Most couldn’t swim and took down others with them as they were thrashing desperately in a chaos. Sasiya survived with a group of others who managed to hold on to some debris that was left from the boat but eventually they got separated.

When the coastguard spotted Sasiya early on Tuesday morning, she was alone. They toured the area looking for other survivors and launched a may day for other vessels to scour the stretch of sea around the rescue area but no one else was found.

When they reached shore, all of the surviving migrants were treated by the Libya Red Crescent which provides medical care and even psychological assistance. Sasiya needed extended treatment for her extended exposure to salt water. She was transferred to the Zawya Educational Hospital along with other survivors needing extended treatment.

Dr Osama Sultan, head of International Relations at the Red Crescent said the organisation is doing its utmost despite limited resources. He said the situation remained critical, in spite of a pendulum response by the international community.

Libyan Navy Collonel Masood Abusamed, said the incident was almost routine although the loss of life this week was extraordinary for this year.

"Over the past weeks, we intercepted and rescued more than 2,000 migrants," he said.

Source: Migrant Report

Photos of survivors from rescued boats being treated by volunteers from Libyan Red Crescent Society.