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Linda leaks is an exploration to the origins of the wealth of Africa's richest woman is about Santa and her family her husband and what we found was that massive portions of her two billion dollar fortune comes from her ties to her father the former President of Angola, Jose Eduardo. Who bestowed on her steaks in in and a wireless companies that required a state license state diamond company contracts for Massive construction projects in in the Wanda, the capital of Angola and many other many many other contracts and deals done on favorable terms. We discovered that she and her husband created a basically in our archipelago of of of companies around the world more than 200, which we uncovered many of them in in secrecy jurisdictions tax havens and Basically, what we I think we demonstrated was that a lot of this fortune came at the expense of the Golden people are very people who live in extremely poor country but this is much more than a exploration of African corruption or one person's fortune. this is really about the global financial system that makes it possible. None of this would have been. In fact, all of these sophisticated tax shelters and and the heavens and and contracts and and deals were all vented created and and moved by small army of Elite, Western financial advisers, legal advisers accountants and consultants who who's essentially were able to help to help her spirit enormous amounts of. Out of Angola and into US dollars, which is where it counts so in that sense, this is really more less about the rise of single fortune, but more about a a global financial system that's become essentially a vehicle for shifting wealth from from the many to the few Really pleased to be a part of this particular investigation. I was a senior editor on it and was able to see you know work across the the series of stories that we did and it was a it was been of a test for us at the International Consortium of Investigative journalist because it comes only two months after our last big project, which is the China cables about the master attention caps and changing it's actually Fourth or fifth project we've done in the last six or eight months, which really test our model because in previous years with the Panama Papers, the paradise papers, the implant files and the rest. These project team wants a year and they require you know enormous amounts of research and fact checking and document exploration and document preparation and restructuring structuring and in our in our database and these are extremely labor. And effort intensive intensive generally projects so we've started to kinda ramp up production, which which I hope takes us into a new era of being able to be more present with with repeated investigations of our or several investigations over look over the course of a year, I think that'll that'll you know. That will Increase the amount of information we're able to provide to the public and increase our presence and the general substance.











