The Minister of Finance has announced a ten-point plan against tax havens and money laundering. But many of his propositions are old, unrealistic or ineffective.
So far Germans are not in the focus of Panama Papers revelations. But money laundering is a major problem - against which the government takes action against very hesitant.
President Hollande reacts to the Panama revelations: Panama with the seat of hundreds of thousands offshore companies should be announced as "uncooperative" by the OECD.
Almost all major German banks connected customers to Mossack Fonseca, who set up front companies for them. One expert believes that banks didn't strictly controlled, if the constructs were used only for lawful purposes.
Cellist Roldugin is a central figure of the Panama-papers. Through his corganisations flows millions. Did he gilded his closeness to Kremlin boss Putin - or is he just a straw man for payments of oligarchs?