{"id":36115,"date":"2019-11-01T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T10:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=36115"},"modified":"2019-11-25T13:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T12:53:11","slug":"the-laundromat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/the-laundromat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Laundromat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood A-listers Steven Soderbergh <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-36116\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/money-laundering-in-washing-machine-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"132\">and Meryl Streep have spoken out against the secrecy of tax havens and lauded the bravery of the journalists who expose corruption at the opening of Panama Papers-inspired movie, The Laundromat.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, which premiered on Sunday at the Venice International Film Festival, explores the world of tax havens and complex offshore financial structures through the eyes of Panamanian lawyers J\u00fcrgen Mossack and Ram\u00f3n Fonseca, played by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas.<\/p>\n<p>Their eponymous law firm, Mossack Fonseca, was at the heart of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists\u2019 2016 Panama Papers investigation, which revealed how politicians, celebrities, criminals and the global elite obscured their wealth and conducted questionable business deals through hard-to-trace companies and tax havens. More than 350 journalists from 80 countries worked together to uncover secrets hidden in a trove of 11.5 million leaked Mossack Fonseca files&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/investigations\/panama-papers\/laundromat-premiere-fun-movie-dirty-business-says-streep-and-soderbergh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">icij.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Laundromat | Official Trailer |<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wuBRcfe4bSo\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"350\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nA widow (Meryl Streep) investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners (Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas) exploiting the world\u2019s financial system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Die Geldw\u00e4scherei&#8221; &#8211;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/de\/die-geldwaescherei-ein-muss-fuer-jede-frau\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> A \u201cMUST\u201c For Every Woman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icij.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/what-is-a-whistleblower-and-other-faqs-about-whistleblowers\/?utm_source=ICIJ&amp;utm_campaign=02074b313e-1008_WeeklyEmail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_992ecfdbb2-02074b313e-82550401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What is a Whistleblower?<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14231\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/snowden-welcome-in-russia\/the-fate-of-whistleblowers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-14231 noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14231\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Fate-of-Whistleblowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Fate-of-Whistleblowers.jpg 489w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Fate-of-Whistleblowers-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/The-Fate-of-Whistleblowers-389x300.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dooa Eladl<br \/>www.w-t-w.org\/en\/doaa-eladl\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood A-listers Steven Soderbergh and Meryl Streep have spoken out against the secrecy of tax havens and lauded the bravery of the journalists who expose corruption at the opening of Panama Papers-inspired movie, The Laundromat. The movie, which premiered on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/the-laundromat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[218],"class_list":["post-36115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-finance","tag-whistleblower"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36115"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36171,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36115\/revisions\/36171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}