Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca was unable to identify company owners
The only way I can understand how widespread this is, is that a majority of the powerful string-pullers in the world are participating in the scam.<p>If a company has an international ownership structure that&#x27;s complex enough that makes it difficult or impossible to follow the trail of ownership &#x2F; leadership &#x2F; directorship, then the company shouldn&#x27;t be allowed to operate.<p>All the fuss and bluster in various countries about multi-nationals dodging their local tax responsibilities, and yet this is allowed to go on.  There were a couple of such companies that have Australian Government contracts that were revealed to have opaque international ownership.<p>In the current environment of growing suspicion about foreign ownership and its relationship to national security, you&#x27;d think these issues would be a priority.  How do you curtail foreign ownership and Chinese &#x2F; Russian influence if you can&#x27;t work out who&#x27;s ultimately responsible?  Maybe that&#x27;s just talk to distract us non-string-pullers?