azerbaijan s president and his associates are secretly involved in 17 property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the files also found the president of cyprus own legal firm appeared to have provided fake owners for a rich russian client, though this is strongly disputed. documents also show the czech prime minister, who is facing an election next week, failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrej babis has responded to the pandora papers allegations on social media. he said on twitter he had never done anything illegal or wrong, calling the claims an effort to try to denigrate him and influence the czech parliamentary elections. duncan hames is the director of policy at transparency international. this is his reaction. when a political elite enriches itself from being in power, it s the ordinary man and woman
here are some of the other revelations in the pandora papers. the investigation found azerbaijan s president and his associates are secretly involved in 17 property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the files also found the president of cyprus own legal firm appeared to have provided fake owners for a rich russian client, though this is strongly disputed. documents also show the czech prime minister, who is facing an election next week, failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrej babis has responded to the pandora papers allegations on social media. he said on twitter he had never done anything illegal or wrong, calling the claims an effort to try to denigrate him and influence the czech parliamentary elections.
here are some of the other revelations in the pandora papers. investigation found azerbaijan s resident and his associate are secretly involved in 17 property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the files also found the president of cyprus s and legal firm appeared to have provided they owners for a rich russian client although this is strongly disputed. documents also show the czech prime minister was facing an election next week failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrej babis has responded to the pandora papers allegations on social media. he said on twitter he had never done anything illegal or wrong, calling the claim is an effort to try to denigrate him and influence the czech parliamentary elections. for more on the background to the pandora papers leak, here is the investigative journalist
the investigation found azerbaijan s president and his associate are secretly involved in 17 property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the files also found the president of cyprus s own legal firm appeared to have provided fake owners for a rich russian client though fake owners for a rich russian client though this is strongly disputed. documents also show the czech prime minister who is facing an election next week failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrej babis has responded to the pandora papers allegations on social media. he said on twitter he had never done anything illegal or wrong, calling the claims an effort to try to denigrate him and influence the czech parliamentary elections. this is duncan haynes s,
they did not request to structure the transaction this way and that after purchase they had brought the property under uk tax and regulatory rules, a spokesman added the couple will be liable for capital gains tax on resale. richard bilton, bbc news. the investigation found that the president of azerbaijan and his associates were involved in property deals in the uk worth more than $541 million. the president of cyprus s legal firm million. the president of cyprus s legalfirm had appeared million. the president of cyprus s legal firm had appeared to have provided they can aspire rich russian client but this is strongly disputed. documents show that the czech prime minister, facing an election next week, failed to declare an offshore investment company used to purchase two villas for $60 million in the south of france. andrew verityjoins us now. what is the background to this leak? this is a glimpse into the way that