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Tonight at 10:00pm, confidential documents leaked from a law firm | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
in Panama, reveal how the world's richest use tax havens | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
The cache of 11 million documents, some seen by the BBC, | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
suggest clients were helped to launder money and evade tax. | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
One man alleged to have been involved is a close friend | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
We'll have the full details of the secret files. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
One potential buyer has been in contact with the government, | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
over the purchase of the Port Talbot steel works. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
The Government orders an investigation into the UK | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Anti-Doping Agency, after claims a doctor supplied performance | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
enhancing drugs to British sports stars. | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
I must also warn you I'm no public speaker. | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
Almost all my life I've spent trying to avoid publicity of any kind. | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
Never before seen footage of British double agent Kim Philby - | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
That's one. And another. | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
And the sixes that sank England - they lose to the West Indies | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
The leak of 11 million confidential documents | :01:17. | :01:39. | |
from a Panamanian law firm, has revealed the extent | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
to which the world's rich and powerful use tax havens | :01:45. | :01:46. | |
The documents, some seen by the BBC, show how clients were helped | :01:47. | :01:57. | |
to launder money, dodge sanctions, and evade tax. | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
One of those mentioned is a close friend of | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
the Russian President Vladimir Putin, alleged to be involved | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
The law firm at the centre of the revelations, | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
Mossack Fonseca, says it's operated beyond reproach for 40 years, | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
and has never been accused or charged with wrong-doing. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
Here's our Special Correspondent Richard Bilton. | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
Panama's carnival attracts visitors from around the world. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
But, away from the lights, this place is a thriving tax haven. | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
Investors come to Panama for secrecy. | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
You can go to Panama and you can get a foundation, | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
or a trust or a company, and you can use those complicated, | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
slightly strange structures to hide and disguise your ownership | :02:39. | :02:40. | |
An enormous leak of files from this company, Mossack Fonseca, | :02:41. | :02:51. | |
From outside, Mossack Fonseca looks like a perfectly respectable | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
company, but this is a business which has helped people from around | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
The documents were leaked to the German newspaper | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
Suddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
Panorama has been analysing the documents. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
We found links to 72 current or former heads of state. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Like the Icelandic Prime Minister, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, | :03:22. | :03:30. | |
who had a secret stake in an offshore company. | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
The company held his wife's interests in Iceland's banks, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
Nobody knew that when her husband was dealing with the Icelandic banks | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
after their collapse - including the British | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
demands for compensation, which he turned down. | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
He walked out when questioned by an Icelandic reporter. | :03:54. | :04:06. | |
Mr Gunnlaugsson is today facing calls for his resignation. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
He says he has not broken any rules and his wife did not benefit | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
Mossack Fonseca say the services they provide are commonly used | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
worldwide and they are responsible members of the global financial | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
But some of the deals in the files are extraordinary. | :04:23. | :04:32. | |
We believe we have found a billion-dollar laundering | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
This man, cellist Sergei Roldugin - close friend of President Putin - | :04:36. | :04:46. | |
was officially the owner of two secretive companies which benefited | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
For example, an offshore company borrows $6 million. | :04:51. | :04:59. | |
Three months later, the loan is written off for just $1. | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
Why would anyone want to give all this cash to a cellist? | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
There is nothing I've seen which would make me do anything | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
other than say stop, we need to investigate very closely | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
To you, does it look like money-laundering? | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
Yes, it does look like money-laundering to me, for sure. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Mr Roldugin hasn't answered our questions. | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
Mossack Fonseca say they have a strong compliance record. | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
Through the leak, the world can now see more clearly how the wealthy can | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
And you can see more on Panorama: Tax Havens of the Rich | :05:40. | :05:51. | |
and Powerful Exposed, tomorrow night at 7;30pm on BBC One. | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
The government says it's ready to offer incentives to secure | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
a buyer, for the Port Talbot steelworks to safeguard | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
The Business Secretary Sajid Javid, says the plant's costs and pensions, | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
It's emerged today that one potential buyer has been in contact | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Here's our Political Correspondent Carole Walker. | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
What is the Government prepared to do to save | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
The formal bidding process for the Port Talbot plant will open | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
this week, and the Business Secretary said the Government | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
is prepared to put in money to help clinch a deal. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Frankly, I don't want to live in a country where we have to import | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
That is why we have been clear we will do everything we can to keep | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
steel-making at Port Talbot and to help those workers. | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
I want to find a buyer for the whole of the business. | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
Of course, there will be help that needs to be provided. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Because we have been working on this for weeks, I have thought carefully | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
about the kind of help we can provide. | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
I understand the Government has had preliminary talks with a potential | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
buyer for Tata's UK business, but a sale might require Government | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
investment to modernise Port Talbot, to make it more profitable. | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
The Business Secretary said other key issues are the plant, | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
what type of steel is made, pensions - though funds have been | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
set aside for future liabilities - and power. | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
The steel industry wants more relief from energy taxes. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
Ministers have said they do not believe nationalisation is a viable | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
But the opposition says it should remain an option. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
If we haven't got that leeway in the timescale, as a fall back, | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
yes, nationalise in the short-term to stabilise the situation, | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
prepare the sector then for putting it back out to another buyer. | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
That will give us the stability we need in the sector. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
If the Government allows our steel sector to close now, | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
Port Talbot to close, it could cost us between 1 | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
and 1.5 billion to keep people on the dole and have economies | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
Ministers say they will encourage councils and all other public bodies | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
to buy British steel for future building projects, | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
but many in the steel industry say the Government has to do more. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
The size of the crisis that we find ourselves in, | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
or the severity of it, means that we need direct financial | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Now, that might be only in the short-term, but without it, | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
then we have a very uncertain future. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
The formal bidding process for Port Talbot will open this week, | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
but time is tight if a buyer is to be found to save the business. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
I understand the steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has made initial | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
No substantial discussions yet though. | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
This will be a complex process, but the pressure is on, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
because Tata has said it wants to find a buyer within weeks, | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
and the jobs of thousands of British steel workers are hanging | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Carole Walker, BBC News, Westminster. | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
The government has ordered an independent inquiry | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
into the UK's Anti-Doping Aagency, after it was accused of failing | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
to act over claims a doctor prescribed performance enhancing | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
drugs to sports stars, including Premier League footballers. | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
Three clubs today described the claims as "false". | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
The doctor concerned, Mark Bonar, has denied any wrongdoing. | :09:11. | :09:12. | |
The truth of the matter is, drugs are in sport. | :09:13. | :09:22. | |
Dr Mark Bonar, caught claiming to have helped scores of sports | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Secretly filmed by the Sunday Times last year, the London-based medic | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
prescribes banned performance-enhancing drugs | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
If somebody came into me and said why are you giving BLEEP | :09:35. | :09:45. | |
testosterone, I would say, look, his testosterone level is 15. | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
The normal range is 4-30 and he has symptoms of testosterone | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
His levels were sub-optimal, and I've just topped him up. | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
The reason is to increase his performance. | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
Bonar says he's worked with 150 elite sports people, | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
including boxers, tennis players, an England cricketer, cyclists | :10:09. | :10:16. | |
If you're a footballer in your 30s, how are you going to keep up | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
There is no suggestion that any of the three Premier League clubs | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
implicated were aware of any of any alleged wrongdoing. | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
They say the claims are false, and without foundation. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Leicester City is one of those clubs, and today, fans | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
at the match against Southampton gave their reaction. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
You wouldn't want to be paying to see a sport which | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
As things stand, they said they have not found anything, | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
there's nothing to suggest otherwise. | :10:49. | :10:49. | |
So I think we've just got to continue and enjoy what we see | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
The newspaper investigation stems from evidence passed to the UK | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
Anti-Doping Agency two years ago by a whistle-blower athlete. | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
It says it failed to act at the time because Bonar was not | :11:01. | :11:03. | |
governed by any one sport, but decided not to pass the case | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
The Culture, Media and Sport Secretary John Whittingdale said | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
he was shocked and deeply concerned by these allegations and has asked | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
for an urgent independent investigation. | :11:17. | :11:17. | |
He added doping could be made a criminal offence for athletes. | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
I think I welcome the fact that there's going to be an investigation | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
into UK Anti-doping and the way it operates. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
If that then leads to more robust procedures being put in place, | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
more funding being put in place, and hopefully at some stage even | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
leading towards the criminalisation of steroid use in sports, | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
Bonar's conduct is currently the subject of an investigation | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
by the GMC into the treatment of a patient not related to sport. | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
Today, his clinic terminated its agreement with him, | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
after it was revealed he does not currently have a UK licence | :11:54. | :11:55. | |
Tonight, Bonar said the newspaper allegations were false and very | :11:56. | :12:02. | |
misleading and he has never had a relationship with any | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
Premier League football club or player. | :12:06. | :12:07. | |
These are unsubstantiated allegations. | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
Investigators will treat them with caution until they are presented | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
But they do raise questions about those tasked with protecting | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
clean sport and the fear will be that, amid a doping crisis, | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
this could just be evidence that the range of sports afflicted | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
The suspicion currently hanging over the integrity of sport shows little | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
A woman jailed for drug smuggling in Peru in three years ago | :12:33. | :12:49. | |
has spoken for the first time about what she called her | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
Michaela McCollum, who's from County Tyrone, was arrested | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
at Lima Airport with cocaine in her luggage. | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Initially protesting their innocence after their arrest in 2013, | :12:59. | :13:07. | |
20-year-old Michaella McCollum - with dark hair - and Melissa Reid | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
later admitted trying to smuggle drugs out of Peru. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
There were jailed for six years and eight months, | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Now a very different looking 23-year-old, | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
she has given her first TV interview since leaving prison. | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
Feels like a dream, feels like it's not real. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Feels like I'm going to wake up any moment and be back in a nightmare. | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
A lot of times, I didn't know how to say no to somebody. | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
I kind of just followed along with it. | :13:44. | :13:46. | |
I guess part of me kind of wanted to be something that I'm not. | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
Seen here, shortly after they were sentenced, | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
McCollum and Reid were found with 11 kilograms of cocaine, | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
stuffed into food packets in their luggage. | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
The drugs were worth more than ?1 million. | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
McCollum says she now realises the damage her actions | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
Obviously I regret the harm that I've done, so much suffering | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
Obviously in the time here, I thought, if the drugs had have got | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
I probably would have had a lot of blood my hands. | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
The amount of families that would have ruined, | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
I did that, I caused destruction to society. | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
It's simply that I made a decision in a moment of madness. | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
I want to demonstrate that I'm a good person. | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
It's understood McCollum will won't be free to leave Peru | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
It's understood McCollum won't be free to leave Peru | :14:38. | :14:39. | |
for some time, under the conditions of her parole. | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
Melissa Reid, who has been seeking to serve what is left | :14:44. | :14:45. | |
of her sentence closer to home in Scotland, remains in jail. | :14:46. | :14:48. | |
Let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories now. | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
Brussels Airport has partially reopened, after the terror attack | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
There were just three flights today, instead of the usual 500, | :14:57. | :15:01. | |
with full capacity not returning until the summer. | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
16 people were killed when suicide bombers, | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
linked to the so-called Islamic State, blew themselves up. | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
Greece is preparing to return hundreds of migrants to Turkey, | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
The operation will start tomorrow morning on the Island of Lesbos, | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
which has serves as a gateway for hundreds of thousands | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
of refugees and migrants into Europe. | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
In return, EU countries will resettle refugees | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
Eight people have been taken to hospital after two passenger | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
It happened at low speed but witnesses describe | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
hearing a loud bang, and people standing up to get off | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
Kim Philby was one of the most notorious British spies | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
He rose up the ranks of MI6, while all the while | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
passing secrets to the Soviet Union and the KGB. | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
He's never been seen talking about his 30 years | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
BBC News has unearthed fascinating footage of Philby | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
addressing officers of the East German intelligence | :16:03. | :16:04. | |
Our Security Correspondent Gordon Corera has this exclusive report. | :16:05. | :16:13. | |
I must also warn you that I am no public speaker. | :16:14. | :16:28. | |
Almost all my life I have spent trying to avoid publicity | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
The BBC unearthed this hour-long video. | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
It is 1981 and Philby is addressing the Stasi, | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
Never intended for the public, this recording has lain hidden | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
Well, now, on looking back on my career in the enemy camp, | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
this 30 year career in the enemy camp. | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
Philby offers a masterclass in betrayal - from his recruitment | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
by Soviet spies after Cambridge, to his joining Britain's secret | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
Every evening I left the office with a big briefcase, | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
full of reports which I had written myself, full of files taken out | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
of the actual documents, out of the archives. | :17:14. | :17:23. | |
I would hand them to my Soviet contact in the evening, | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
next morning I would get the file back, | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
the contents having been photographed, and take them back | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
early in the morning and put the files back in their place. | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
That I did regularly, year in, year out. | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
Mr Harold Philby, on the right, holds a press conference to deny | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
charges he was involved in the disappearance | :17:39. | :17:39. | |
Until now, this was the only known video of Philby speaking. | :17:40. | :17:44. | |
It is 1955, and he was denying reports he was a Communist. | :17:45. | :17:51. | |
The last time I spoke to a Communist, knowing him to be | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
Eight years later, he fled to Moscow. | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
Philby is buried in Kuntsevo Cemetery, on the outskirts | :18:03. | :18:04. | |
of the Russian capital, along with other heroes | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
Philby died in 1988, 25 years after he came to the Soviet | :18:08. | :18:16. | |
Union, a country he regarded as home. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
He was the spy who came into the cold. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
We travelled an hour out of Moscow, to track down a former KGB officer | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
He led operations against Britain, and was assigned to look | :18:30. | :18:36. | |
after Philby in Moscow, becoming his close friend. | :18:37. | :18:46. | |
The setting of the goal and the approach to the gold... | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
He decided that Philby should be used to train the young KGB recruits | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
This was a way of giving some purpose to a man who felt underused. | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
In his heart of hearts, he missed Britain greatly, | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
because he was British, he was English, 100%. | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
No, I don't think that he regretted it, but he missed Britain. | :19:09. | :19:18. | |
He may have been regarded as a hero in the Communist world, | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
but Philby admits in his Stasi speech he betrayed a joint CIA-MI6 | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
operation in Albania, which led to hundreds | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
He also talks about the other Cambridge spies he recruited and how | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
he outwitted MI6 when he escaped, and he finishes with one piece | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
They interrogated me in order to break my nerve and | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
My advice to you is to tell all your agents that they | :19:45. | :19:53. | |
That advice served Philby well during his career, this secret | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
account of his betrayal emerging only decades after his death. | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
Gordon Corera, BBC News, Moscow. | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
And you can hear more on this tomorrow night, | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
on Radio 4's The Philby Tape, at 8:00pm. | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
West Indies are the T20 cricket World Champions for a second time, | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
after beating England in a sensational final. | :20:23. | :20:24. | |
The trophy looked to be heading England's way before an explosive | :20:25. | :20:27. | |
last over turned the match on its head. | :20:28. | :20:28. | |
The West Indies won the women's competition too, beating Australia. | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
Our correspondent Joe Wilson reports from Kolkata. | :20:32. | :20:43. | |
You can carry one team in your heart, and wear another | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
In truth, most people here had bought tickets for the big occasion | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
But now that we're here, you might as well cheer. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
And England have made a big impression, all the way to 40 overs | :20:55. | :20:57. | |
It was Joe Root's night, that's the way the early tipsters ran. His 50 | :20:58. | :21:13. | |
health England to a total of 155, not formidable but respectable. When | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
the West Indies batted, England experimented with Joe Root bowling | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
the second over. The batsmen couldn't resist. Root landed two | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
wickets, both held by Ben Stokes, Chris Grail was the big one. Marlon | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Samuels stood firm building an innings of 85, which just about put | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
the West Indies in the game. With one over to come, England were in | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
control. West Indies needed 19 to win. Now watch surely the most | :21:39. | :21:42. | |
staggering hitting in the most extraordinary circumstances that | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
cricket has witnessed. Carlos Brathwaite knocked the first four | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
balls of Ben Stokes' Bowling for six. Four in a row. Brathwaite | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
couldn't be controlled, Stokes couldn't be consoled. It was after | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
midnight local time when England's players finally left the Eden | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
Gardens stadium. They will know in their hearts that during this | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
tournament they really rescued their international credibility, but in | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
sport, credibility will always finish second to trophies. West | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
Indies women won the World T20 for the first time earlier in the day | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
beating Australia. The men celebrated only after throwing | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
criticism at their own board, reminding us this is a tournament | :22:24. | :22:24. | |
they almost boycotted. You can see more on all of today's | :22:25. | :22:31. | |
stories on the BBC News Channel. But do stay with us on BBC1, | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
it's time for the news | :22:35. | :22:38. |