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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5335/A.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Pandora Papers Reveal New Secrets of Worlds Wealthiest People' data-article-id='5925'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='15479'>A new report shows how world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires and others have used secret accounts to hide property worth trillions of dollars.</span> <span data-start-time='15479' data-end-time='34167'>The report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) brought promises of tax reform and demands for resignations and investigations. </span> <span data-start-time='34167' data-end-time='40771'>Explanations and denials from those targeted followed.</span> <span data-start-time='40771' data-end-time='48583'>The investigation, named the Pandora Papers, was published Sunday night. </span> <span data-start-time='48583' data-end-time='58896'>It involved 600 journalists from 150 media groups in 117 countries.</span> <span data-start-time='58896' data-end-time='73542'>The reporters examined accounts based in traditional island havens like the British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Hong Kong and Belize. </span> <span data-start-time='73542' data-end-time='88542'>But, the investigation also found such accounts hidden in less expected places, including the U.S. states of South Dakota and Florida.</span> <span data-start-time='88542' data-end-time='103208'>Tax advisers helped the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people hide their ownership of the properties to avoid tax requirements. </span> <span data-start-time='103208' data-end-time='109708'>While many of the accounts are legal, they are ethically questionable.</span> <span data-start-time='109708' data-end-time='118521'>Critics say the property owners should have paid taxes on their sales and purchases. </span> <span data-start-time='118521' data-end-time='122938'>Sven Giegold is a member of the European parliament. </span> <span data-start-time='122938' data-end-time='131792'>He said: ”Global tax evasion fuels global inequality.”</span> <span data-start-time='131792' data-end-time='136854'>Oxfam International is a British aid group. </span> <span data-start-time='136854' data-end-time='147729'>In a statement, it said the missing tax dollars result in fewer public projects, like hospitals and schools.</span> <span data-start-time='147729' data-end-time='159313'>“This is where the pay-packets sit of all the extra teachers and firefighters and public servants we need,” Oxfam wrote.</span> <span data-start-time='159313' data-end-time='171167'>Some of the owners published in the report include former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and King Abdullah II of Jordan. </span> <span data-start-time='171167' data-end-time='193083'>Other names were Czech prime minister Andrej Babis, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso and close contacts of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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