03/04/2016 BBC Weekend News

Tonight at Ten, confidential documents, leaked from a law firm

in Panama, reveal how the world's richest,

The cache of 11 million documents, some seen by the BBC,

suggest clients were helped to launder money and evade tax.

One man alleged to have been involved is a close friend

of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

We'll have the full details of the secret files.

Also on tonight's programme: One potential buyer has been in contact

with the Government over the purchase of the Port Talbot

The Government orders an investigation into the UK

Anti-Doping Agency, after claims a doctor supplied performance

enhancing drugs to British sports stars.

I must also warn you, that I am no public speaker.

Almost all of my life I have spent trying to avoid publicity

Never before seen footage of British double agent Kim Philby

That's one. And another. And another!

And the sixes that sank England - they lose to the West Indies

The leak of 11 million confidential documents from a Panamanian law

firm, has revealed the extent to which the world's rich

and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth.

The documents, seen by the BBC, show how clients were helped

to launder money, dodge sanctions, and evade tax.

One of those mentioned is a close friend of the Russian

President Vladimir Putin, alleged to be involved

The law firm at the centre of the revelations, Mowsack Fonseca,

says it's operated beyond reproach for 40 years, and has never been

Here's our special correspondent Richard Bilton.

Panama's carnival attracts visitors from around the world.

But, away from the lights, this place is a thriving tax haven.

Investors come to Panama for secrecy.

You can go to Panama and you can get a foundation,

or a trust or a company, and you can use those complicated,

slightly strange structures to hide and disguise your ownership

An enormous leak of files from this company, Mowsack Fonseca,

From outside, Mowsack Fonseca looks like a perfectly respectable

company, but this is a business which has helped people from around

The documents were leaked to the German newspaper

Suddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium

Panorama has been analysing the documents.

We found links to 72 current or former heads of state.

Like the Icelandic Prime Minister, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson,

who had a secret stake in an offshore company.

The company held his wife's interests in Iceland's banks,

Nobody knew that when her husband was dealing with the Icelandic banks

after their collapse - including the British

demands for compensation, which he turned down.

He walked out when questioned by an Icelandic reporter.

Mr Gunnlaugsson is today facing calls for his resignation.

He says he has not broken any rules and his wife did not benefit

Mowsack Fonseca say the services they provide are commonly used

worldwide and they are responsible members of the global financial

But some of the deals in the files are extraordinary.

We believe we have found a billion-dollar laundering

This man, cellist Sergei Roldugin - close friend of President Putin -

was officially the owner of two secretive companies which benefited

For example, an offshore company borrows $6 million.

Three months later, the loan is written off for just $1.

Why would anyone want to give all this cash to a cellist?

There is nothing I've seen which would make me do anything

other than say stop, we need to investigate very closely

To you, does it look like money-laundering?

Yes, it does look like money-laundering to me, for sure.

Mr Roldugin hasn't answered our questions.

Mowsack Fonseca say they have a strong compliance record.

Through the leak, the world can now see more clearly how the wealthy can

And you can see more on Panorama: Tax Havens of the Rich

and Powerful Exposed, tomorrow night at 7.30pm on BBC One.

The Government says it's ready to offer incentives to secure

a buyer for the Port Talbot steelworks to safeguard

The Business Secretary Sajid Javid says the plant's costs and pensions,

It's emerged today that one potential buyer has been in contact

Here's our political correspondent Carole Walker.

What is the Government prepared to do to save

The formal bidding process for the Port Talbot plant will open

this week, and the Business Secretary said the Government

is prepared to put in money to help clinch a deal.

Frankly, I don't want to live in a country where we have to import

That is why we have been clear we will do everything we can to keep

steel-making at Port Talbot and to help those workers.

I want to find a buyer for the whole of the business.

Of course, there will be help that needs to be provided.

Because we have been working on this for weeks, I have thought carefully

about the kind of help we can provide.

I understand the Government has had preliminary talks with a potential

buyer for Tata's UK business, but a sale might require Government

investment to modernise Port Talbot, to make it more profitable.

The Business Secretary said other key issues are the plant,

what type of steel is made, pensions - though funds have been

set aside for future liabilities - and power.

The steel industry wants more relief from energy taxes.

Ministers have said they do not believe nationalisation is a viable

But the opposition says it should remain an option.

If we haven't got that leeway in the timescale, as a fall back,

yes, nationalise in the short-term to stabilise the situation,

prepare the sector then for putting it back out to another buyer.

That will give us the stability we need in the sector.

If the Government allows our steel sector to close now,

Port Talbot to close, it could cost us between 1

and 1.5 billion to keep people on the dole and have economies

Ministers say they will encourage councils and all other public bodies

to buy British Steel for future building projects,

but many in the steel industry say the Government has to do more.

The size of the crisis that we find ourselves in,

or the severity of it, means that we need direct financial

Now that might be only in the short-term, but without it,

then we have a very uncertain future.

The formal bidding process for Port Talbot will open this week,

but time is tight if a buyer is to be found to save the business.

I understand the steel tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has made initial

No substntial discussions yet though.

This will be a complex process, but the pressure is on,

because Tata has said it wants to find a buyer within weeks,

and the jobs of thousands of British Steel workers are hanging

Carole Walker, BBC News, Westminster.

The Government has ordered an independent inquiry into the UK's

anti-doping agency after it was accused of failing to act over

claims a doctor prescribed performance enhancing drugs

to sports stars, including Premier League footballers.

Three clubs today described the claims as false.

The doctor concerned, Mark Bonar, has denied any wrongdoing.

The truth of the matter is, drugs are in sport.

Dr Mark Bonar, caught claiming to have helped scores of sports

Secretly filmed by the Sunday Times last year, the London-based medic

prescribes banned performance-enhancing drugs

If somebody came into me and said why are you giving BLEEP

testosterone, I would say, look, his testosterone level is 15.

The normal range is 4-30 and he has symptoms of testosterone

His levels were sub-optimal, and I've just topped him up.

The reason is to increase his performance.

Bonar says he's worked with 150 elite sports people,

including boxers, tennis players, an England cricketer, cyclists

If you're a footballer in your 30s, how are you going to keep up

There is no suggestion that any of the three Premier League clubs

implicated were aware of any of any alleged wrongdoing.

They say the claims are false, and without foundation.

Leicester City is one of those clubs, and today, fans

at the match against Southampton gave their reaction.

You wouldn't want to be paying to see a sport which

As things stand, they said they have not found anything,

there's nothing to suggest otherwise.

So I think we've just got to continue and enjoy what we see

The newspaper investigation stems from evidence passed to the UK

Anti-Doping Agency two years ago by a whistle-blower athlete.

It says it failed to act at the time because Bonar was not

governed by any one sport, but decided not to pass the case

The Culture, Media and Sport Secretary John Whittingdale said

he was shocked and deeply concerned by these allegations and has asked

for an urgent independent investigation.

He added doping could be made a criminal offence for athletes.

I think I welcome the fact that there's going to be an investigation

into UK Anti-doping and the way it operates.

If that then leads to more robust procedures being put in place,

more funding being put in place, and hopefully at some stage

even leading towards the criminalisation of steroid use

in sports, then all of that is positive.

Bonar's conduct is currently the subject of an investigation

by the GMC into the treatment of a patient not related to sport.

Today, his clinic terminated its agreement with him,

after it was revealed he does not currently have a UK licence

Tonight, Bonar said the newspaper allegations were false and very

misleading and he has never had a relationship with any

Premier League football club or player.

These are unsubstantiated allegations.

Investigators will treat them with caution until they are presented

But they do raise questions about those tasked with protecting

clean sport and the fear will be that, amid a doping crisis,

this could just be evidence that the range of sports afflicted

The suspicion currently hanging over the integrity of sport shows little

One of two women jailed for drug smuggling in Peru three years ago

has spoken for the first time about what she called her

Michaella McCollum, who's from County Tyrone,

was arrested at Lima Airport with cocaine in her luggage.

She was released on parole on Thursday.

Initially protesting their innocence after their arrest in 2013,

20-year-old Michaella McCollum - with dark hair - and Melissa Reid

later admitted trying to smuggle drugs out of Peru.

They were jailed for six years and eight months,

but new legislation has led to McCollum's early release.

Now a very different looking 23-year-old,

she has given her first TV interview since leaving prison.

Feels like a dream, feels like it's not real.

Feels like I'm going to wake up any moment and be back in a nightmare.

A lot of times, I didn't know how to say no to somebody.

I kind of just followed along with it.

I guess part of me kind of wanted to be something that I'm not.

Seen here, shortly after they were sentenced,

McCollum and Reid were found with 11 kilograms of cocaine,

stuffed into food packets in their luggage.

The drugs were worth more than ?1 million.

McCollum says she now realises the damage her actions

Obviously I regret the harm that I've done, so much suffering

Obviously in the time here, I thought, if the drugs had have got

I probably would have had a lot of blood my hands.

The amount of families that would have ruined,

I did that, I caused destruction to society.

It's simply that I made a decision in a moment of madness.

I want to demonstrate that I'm a good person.

It's understood McCollum won't be free to leave Peru

for some time, under the conditions of her parole.

Melissa Reid, who has been seeking to serve what is left

of her sentence closer to home in Scotland, remains in jail.

Let's take a look at some of the day's other top stories now.

Brussels Airport has partially reopened, after the terror attack

There were just three flights today, instead of the usual 500,

with full capacity not returning until the summer.

16 people were killed when suicide bombers linked to the so-called

Greece is preparing to return hundreds of migrants to Turkey

The operation will start tomorrow morning on the Island of Lesbos,

which has served as a gateway for hundreds of thousands

of refugees and migrants into Europe.

In return, EU countries will resettle refugees

Eight people have been taken to hospital after two passenger

It happened at low speed but witnesses describe

hearing a loud bang, and people standing up to get off

Kim Philby was one of the most notorious British spies

He rose up the ranks of MI6, while all the while passing secrets

He's never been seen talking about his 30 years

BBC News has unearthed fascinating footage of Philby addressing

officers of the East German intelligence service,

Our security correspondent Gordon Corera has this exclusive report.

I must also warn you that I am no public speaker.

Almost all my life I have spent trying to avoid publicity

The BBC unearthed this hour-long video.

It is 1981 and Philby is addressing the Stasi,

Never intended for the public, this recording has lain hidden

Well, now, on looking back on my career in the enemy camp,

this 30 year career in the enemy camp.

Philby offers a masterclass in betrayal - from his recruitment

by Soviet spies after Cambridge, to his joining Britain's secret

Every evening I left the office with a big briefcase,

full of reports which I had written myself, full of files taken out

of the actual documents, out of the archives.

I would hand them to my contact in the evening, next morning

I would get the file back, the contents having been

photographed, and take them back early in the morning and put

That I did regularly, year in, year out.

Mr Harold Philby, on the right, holds a press conference to deny

charges he was involved in the disappearance

Until now, this was the only known video of Philby speaking.

It is 1955, and he was denying reports he was a Communist.

The last time I spoke to a Communist, knowingly him to be

Eight years later, he fled to Moscow.

Philby is buried in Kuntsevo Cemetery, on the outskirts

of the Russian capital, along with other heroes

Philby died in 1988, 25 years after he came to the Soviet

Union, a country he regarded as home.

He was the spy who came into the cold.

We travelled an hour out of Moscow, to track down a former KGB officer

He led operations against Britain, and was assigned to look

after Philby in Moscow, becoming his close friend.

He decided that Philby should be used to train the young KGB recruits

This was a way of giving some purpose to a man who felt underused.

In his heart of hearts, he missed Britain greatly,

because he was British, he was English, 100%.

You think he reregretted what he did?

No, I don't think that he regretted it, but he missed Britain.

He may have been regarded as a hero in the Communist world,

but Philby admits in his Stasi speech he betrayed a joint CIA-MI6

operation in Albania, which led to hundreds

He also talks about the other Cambridge spies he recruited and how

he outwitted MI6 when he escaped, and he finishes with one piece

They interrogated me in order to break my nerve and

My advice to you is to tell all your agents that they

That advice served Philby well during his career, this secret

account of his betrayal emerging only decades after his death.

Gordon Corera, BBC News, Moscow.

And you can hear more on this tomorrow night,

West Indies are the T20 cricket World Champions for a second time,

after beating England in a sensational final.

The trophy looked to be heading England's way before an explosive

last over turned the match on its head.

The West Indies won the women's competition too, beating Australia.

Our correspondent Joe Wilson reports from Kolkata.

You can carry one team in your heart, and wear another

In truth, most people here had bought tickets for the big occasion

But now that we're here, you might as well cheer.

And England have made a big impression, all the way to 40 overs

That's the way the early chapters ran.

His 50 helped England to a total of 155.

When West Indies batted, England experimented.

Root landed two wickets, both held by Ben Stokes.

Marlon Samuels stood firm, building an innings of 85,

which just about kept West Indies in the game.

But with one over to come, England were in control.

Now what is surely the most staggering hitting in the most

extraordinary of circumstances that cricket has witnessed.

Carlos Brathwaite hit the first four balls of Ben Stokes'

Well, it was after midnight local time when England's players finally

They will know in their hearts that during this tournament they really

rescued their international credibility, but in sport,

credibility will always finish second to trophies.

West Indies women won the World T20 for the first time earlier

The men celebrated only after throwing criticism

Reminding us this is a tournament they almost boycotted.

You can see more on all of today's stories on the BBC News Channel.

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