135. The Panama Papers (Mossack Fonseca)

Why is there such a gap between episodes?? For someone who pays you would think you’d post more…..

Is this where your name comes from?

My. Lord. Been listening to Swindled since the beginning. But This is hands down the best thing I’ve ever heard. Mind boggling how this podcast has evolved. Curious ACC if you ever worry about retaliation for your reporting? World banks and economies …. Pretty brave. Or maybe it’s already so in our faces they don’t care what we know. Listened to it three times to take it all in. Just jaw dropping fantastic. Thank you

Looks like another Station Nightclub fire in Switzerland. Investigators looking at sparkler fireworks and noise reduction insulation foam in the ceiling. Tragic.

I've listened to every single episode many, many times. This is one of the best!

Go watch the Laundromat. Very good movie if you want to learn more about this. I think netflix has it.

While it was a tragedy that she was murdered and it's a further tragedy that there hasn't been justice in that case, Daphne wasn't an investigative journalist by any reasonable definition of the word. She was a partisan blogger. Her advocacy against corruption was strictly across party lines. It was a horror what happened to her, but I feel that people abroad have this false image of her as a crusading saint with unimpeachable integrity. She was a human being and it's a shame that nobody bothers to do the basic due diligence necessary to actually read anything she wrote, it's not like she was writing in Maltese, she was too classist for that.

Wow! That's INCREDIBLE. I had never heard about this. We all know things this vast exist, but it's wild to think that it's just one firm out of God knows how many are behind things like this. No doubt that Epstein was likely involved with many of these leaders, and that Trump is very likely caught up in something similar. Funny, the first thing I thought of when I heard "Putinophobia" was, "Hey! *That's* where our Narcoleptic Narcissistic Nazi of a PedOTUS derived "Trump Derangement Syndrome" from!" Incredible story, ACC. And the way the shaker beat started right after the Icelandic leader's tongue-tied interview... chef's kiss to Trevor! This was easily one of your best episodes, ACC. Definitely a subject I want to read more about now! Hope you've enjoyed a phenomenal holiday season so far, and wishing you and yours a killer 2026, where more dominoes like this start to fall for future Swindled episodes.

Brilliant episode. As someone who works in law in the compliance/AML team this is such a good overview of how these sorts of things happen!

Excellent... important story. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Listening for the 3rd time.

Thank you!! I regret to inform you however that the Icelandic Gunnlaugsson is back (really never left) and now spearheads a horrible, horribly fast-growing right-wing populist party.

Merry Christmas A Concerned Citizen and Merry Christmas to Deformer. Thank you. Have a great New Year.

What a closer for the season!! Poignant with the release of [redacted] files, at least in Europe some people can't continue in their current roles when all these tings come out to light; instead we get piece and parcel and no accountability whatsoever because the laws aren't for them, they're for us. Go figure that the home of democracy and capitalism came up with the whole shell company shenanigan that erodes away the very foundation of said systems. As long as there's a buck in it. Thanks for a great 2025 and enjoy the break!!

Thanks, ACC. This one was really important. Have a good holiday.

Stone cold banger of an episode sir 🫡

EEEEEEEE!!! So excited, best Christmas present ever!!

One of your best. Incredible episode.

Very good

You bleeped the best part...😢😭🤣

Santa came early! Happy holiday season to all 🥂

This is literally the best five dollars I spend every month. Excellent work my friend!

ACC, please cover the case of James McDonald (Hercules Investments)! I sent you a PM. I can get you all the dirty details from people who were directly affected. I sent you a PM.

Thank you for the gift ACC

I remember when this hit i thought it would the financial equivalent of Watergate. Then it dawned on me that too many powerful people were avoiding tax and they were hardly about to investigate and prosecute themselves. The only real casualty was Mossack Fonseca itself. The ultra rich shifted their business to other big offshore law firms with better IT security.

I really appreciate that you’re covering the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Her case is too little known and demonstrates how corruption very literally kills. The book her son Paul wrote about it is also incredibly moving.

Have a good holiday ACC

Yayyyyy! New Swindled for the holidays