The first book to untangle the complex and often duplicitous relations among Israel, Iran, and the United States Ericsson showered clients with artwork, clothes and other perks like iPads, watches and Mont Blanc pens, the report says. It paid for trips to Spain and Sweden for 10 Iraqi defense ministry officials. Among those whose holdings have been exposed are Khan's Finance Minister Shaukat Fayaz Ahmed Tarin and his family, and the son of Khan's former adviser for finance and revenue, Waqar Masood Khan. We can’t determine where money sometimes really goes, but we can see that it has disappeared,” Ekholm told a Swedish newspaper. The Pandora Papers have minute details of company correspondence, shares and money transfers and other transactions between Chaudhary family members and partners. Some of the names mentioned are Pakistani, Singaporean, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi.

Ibrahim was named a senior vice president and member of the executive team under Ekholm in 2017, and she became an adviser to Ekholm in 2019. Moubarak was promoted to country manager of Iraq in 2019. Neither Ibrahim nor Moubarak responded to requests for comment. A business vulnerable to bribery We called the project the Ericsson List to echo Ericsson’s own list and to emphasize how widespread the shady practices were. The records also reveal the offshore dealings of a top Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf donor, Arif Naqvi, who is facing fraud charges in the US. He denied winning contracts through bribery or engaging in any sort of corruption, and he said he never saw Ericsson do so. Of the allegations, he said, “Somebody is trying to discredit” the company. “Whatever is said is from jealousy.’’ A telecommunications tower rising above a Mosul city street. Image: Amir Musawy / NDR A new problem: The rise of ISIS The Pandora papers are also threatening to cause a political upset in Cyprus, itself a controversial offshore centre: its president, Nicos Anastasiades, may be asked to explain why a law firm he founded was accused of hiding the assets of a controversial Russian billionaire behind fake company owners.The investigation also calls attention to the Justice Department’s handling of corporate crime. The billion-dollar settlement with Ericsson in 2019 was one of the largest ever, and the company admitted to engaging in bribery and other misconduct in Djibouti, China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Kuwait from 2000 to 2016. In its recent news release, Ericsson said that it had taken disciplinary actions and that several employees had left the company as a result of the investigation. But other employees implicated in misconduct remain at Ericsson. At least one was promoted. Rafiah Ibrahim, the company executive in charge of the Middle East and Africa, endorsed the donation to “try to get mileage from the Korek chairman,” the report says. Ericsson funneled the money through a charitable group. Internal investigators couldn’t identify the ultimate beneficiaries. Excerpt from the leaked Ericsson report.

Ericsson tried to keep up by outsourcing work to local sales agents and other middlemen, distancing itself from the sometimes dirty business of securing contracts and doing business in developing countries. In the case that led to the 2019 settlement, the U.S. described slush funds, inflated costs, false invoices, rigged bidding, unvetted middlemen and bribery in five countries — the same pattern of behavior the internal review describes in Iraq. Besides Iraq, the Ericsson compliance officers investigated allegations of bribery and other wrongdoing in Croatia, Egypt, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Angola, the U.S., Brazil, Azerbaijan, Morocco, Bahrain, Libya and Lebanon. China was both investigated by Ericsson internally and was part of the countries covered in the deferred prosecution agreement. The Pandora Papers reveal that Chaudhary has companies in the British Virgin Islands and Singapore in the names of his wife and three sons, Nirvan, Varun, and Rahul. Head to Zeramon Ruins and recover the artifacts (Lamure) (Gathering points in the ruins in West Lamure Desert)Once again Britain’s role as an enabler of global corruption and money laundering has been exposed with the same loopholes exploited to funnel suspect wealth into the country," said Duncan Hames, Director of Policy at Transparency International UK. In the absence of the documents and with both parties citing commercial confidentiality, the volume of water – if any – that Sunwater is supplying to Adani, its source and the price of any arrangement remains unknown. In response, Sunwater identified 96 separate documents captured by the scope of the request, but refused to disclose any of those documents, arguing that they were exempt from disclosure as this would breach contractual obligations of confidentiality. Ericsson said it intended to respond to the Justice Department and would continue to comply with the terms of the agreement. Ericsson chief executive officer Börje Ekholm told Swedish journalists the matter was unrelated to Iraq. Has anyone been charged in connection with wrongdoing by Ericsson?

It also raised questions about the U.S. Justice Department’s practice of settling criminal cases against corporations with deferred prosecution agreements. The agreements impose fines, penalizing shareholders, but often avoid charging the executives responsible. The revelations come amid fierce industry competition, especially with Chinese power player Huawei, for control of telecom networks in the 21st century. It is not clear how much the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission knew about abuses in Iraq or whether Ericsson fully disclosed its internal findings to the agencies. The Justice Department and SEC declined to comment on any aspect of the Ericsson case. Simpson Thacher did not respond to requests for comment. Anti-corruption watchdogs, including Transparency International, say deeply entrenched corruption exacerbated by weak institutions and political patronage remains rampant and is a core grievance among ordinary Iraqis. What charges were resolved by the Ericsson settlement?The king of Jordan declined to answer specific questions but said there would be nothing improper about him owning properties via offshore companies. During the campaign, Zelenskiy transferred his 25 percent stake in an offshore company to a close friend who now works as the president's top adviser, the files suggest. Some employees thought that Iraq was becoming so unsafe that the company should invoke the so-called force majeure clause in its contracts. Force majeure would provide a legal defense if Ericsson stopped work because of events beyond the parties’ control.

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who was elected in 2019 on a pledge to clean up his country's notoriously corrupt and oligarch-influenced economy, is also named in the leak. The department last year said Adani’s only relevant licence was an “associated water licence” that would allow it to extract groundwater as necessary from coal deposits. You will get two Vital Essence as a reward for completing this quest along with its crafting recipe. If you want to craft Vital Essence you will need raw meat, toadstools, and girthy garlic. These items are rare, so it means that they can’t be found easily, however, if you go around gathering berry piles on the ground (red or blue) there’s a chance that girthy garlic pops up. If you go to the Pyarer Pots and you pray for the gathering prayer, the chance of rare items will be increased. If you want to farm these potions you will have to get these items and craft them.Keeping wraps on an internal report describing widespread corruption appears at odds with that rhetoric, experts say. Ericsson “seems to have fallen short of its own and investors’ standards on anti-corruption,” said Joachim Nahem, a partner at The Governance Group, an Oslo based research and advisory group. A month after Ericsson’s decision to press ahead in Mosul, an engineer conducting tests of cell towers as part of the Peroza Project delivered a letter to an office where ISIS had set up operations, according to the engineer, who asked to be identified only by his first name, Affan. The letter from Ericsson and Asiacell sought permission from the terrorist group to continue working in the area, he said. All Sunwater’s dealings with customers are commercial-in-confidence. On this basis, Sunwater has declined to release any further information.”