List of people and organisations named in the Paradise Papers

This is a list of people and organisations named in the Paradise Papers as connected to offshore companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists stated in their politicians database, as a disclaimer, "There are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts. We do not intend to suggest or imply that any people, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly."

Government officials

Current or former heads of state or government of their country as defined by their political position at the time of announcement, not whether the documents in the Papers relating to them coincided with their period of office.

Heads of state

Current heads of state

Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms

Ilham Aliyev, current President of Azerbaijan.

Former heads of state

Elizabeth II (d. 2022), former Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms

José María Figueres, former President of Costa Rica

Juan Manuel Santos, former President of Colombia

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia

Petro Poroshenko, former President of Ukraine

Heads of government

Former heads of government

Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan

Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister of Canada

Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor of Austria

Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan

Paul Martin, former Prime Minister of Canada

Brian Mulroney (d. 2024), former Prime Minister of Canada

Gerhard Schröder, former Chancellor of Germany

Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, former Prime Minister of Qatar

Cabinet officials

Argentina

Juan José Aranguren, Minister of Energy

Luis Caputo, Minister of Finance

Brazil

Blairo Maggi, Minister of Agriculture

Henrique Meirelles, Minister of Finance

India

Ashok Gehlot, former Chief Minister of Rajasthan

Sachin Pilot, former Minister of Corporate Affairs

Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy, Opposition Leader, Andhra Pradesh

Kazakhstan

Mukhtar Ablyazov, former Minister of Energy and Trade

Sauat Mynbayev, Minister of Oil and Gas

Kenya

Sally Kosgei, former Minister of Agriculture

Lebanon

Adnan Kassar, former Minister of State and Minister of Economy and Trade

Mexico

Pedro Aspe, former Secretary of Finance and Public Credit

Alejandro Gertz Manero, former Secretary of Public Security

Serbia

Nenad Popović, Minister without portfolio

United States

Steven Mnuchin, former Secretary of the Treasury

Penny Pritzker, former Secretary of Commerce

Wilbur Ross, former Secretary of Commerce

Rex Tillerson, former Secretary of State

Members of legislatures

Canada

Leo Kolber, former member of the Senate

European Union

Antanas Guoga, Member of the European Parliament

India

Vijay Mallya, former member of the Rajya Sabha and son of businessman Vittal Mallya

Jayant Sinha, member of the Lok Sabha and Minister of State for Civil Aviation

Ravindra Kishore Sinha, member of the Rajya Sabha

Iraq

Mudhar Shawkat, former member of the Council of Representatives

Japan

Masamitsu Naito, member of the House of Councillors

Taro Yamada, former member of the House of Councillors

Mexico

Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe, former member of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies

Nigeria

Bukola Saraki, former President of the Senate of Nigeria

Russia

Alexey Ezubov, member of the State Duma

Aleksandr Skorobogatko, former member of the State Duma

Spain

Pablo Crespo, former member of Parliament of Galicia and implicated in the Gürtel case

Ukraine

Anton Pryhodsky, former member of the Verkhovna Rada

United Kingdom

Michael Ashcroft, former member of the House of Lords

George Magan, member of the House of Lords

Jacob Rees-Mogg, former member of the House of Commons

James Sassoon, member of the House of Lords and former Commercial Secretary to the Treasury

Other government officials

El Salvador

Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt, former Vice President of El Salvador

Indonesia

Prabowo Subianto, chairman of the Great Indonesia Movement Party

Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno, former Deputy Governor of Jakarta

Saudi Arabia

Khalid bin Sultan, former Deputy Minister of Defense

Spain

Guillermo Ortega Alonso, former Mayor of Majadahonda and implicated in Gürtel case

Xavier Trias, former Mayor of Barcelona

United States

Wesley Clark, former presidential candidate and Supreme Allied Commander Europe

Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council

Jon Huntsman Jr., Ambassador to Russia

Randal Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Federal Reserve

Relatives and associates of government officials

Canada

Stephen Bronfman, close friend of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Ghana

Ibrahim Mahama, brother of former President John Mahama

Greece

Mareva Grabowski, wife of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Indonesia

Tommy and Mamiek Suharto, children of former President Suharto

Israel

Jonathan Kolber, son of Canadian senator Leo Kolber; former CEO of Koor Industries; beneficiary of the Kolber Trust

Jordan

Noor Al-Hussein, former Queen consort of Jordan

Montenegro

Ana Kolarević, sister of former Prime Minister and President Milo Đukanović

Russia

Olga Shuvalova, wife of First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov

Spain

Santiago Alarcó, ex brother-in-law of former Vice President of the Government, Rodrigo Rato

Blanca de la Mata y Pobes, wife of former President of the Congress of Deputies, Jesús Posada

Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, mistress of former King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Turkey

Erkam and Bülent Yıldırım, sons of Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım

United Kingdom

Charles, Prince of Wales, then heir apparent to the British throne

Benjamin Leadsom, husband of former Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council Andrea Leadsom

Peter de Putron, brother-in-law of Andrea Leadsom

Non-government officials and other people

Businesspeople

Multiple citizenship

Micky Arison, chairman of Carnival Corporation & plc

Leonard Blavatnik, founder of Access Industries

Germán Efromovich, founder of Synergy Group

Ivan Glasenberg, CEO of Glencore

Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, entrepreneur

Marc Rich, Major shareholder in Glencore

Lino Saputo, founder of Saputo Inc.

Mark Scheinberg and his father Isai Scheinberg, founders of PokerStars

George Soros, founder of Soros Fund Management and Open Society Foundations

Andorra

Francesc Robert Ribes, former president of Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra

Argentina

Alan Faena, hotelier and real estate developer

Ignacio Jorge Rosner, businessman and financier

Australia

David Coe, founder of Allco Finance Group

Richard Goyder, chairman of AFL Commission and former CEO of Wesfarmers

John Kinghorn, founder of RAMS Home Loans and former shareholder of Allco Finance Group

Nicholas Moore, CEO of Macquarie Group

Canada

Carl Dare, former owner of Dare Foods

Michael DeGroote, businessman and philanthropist

Julien Lavallée, top seller in StubHub

Peter Nygård, accused child sex trafficker, founder of Nygard International

Thierry Vandal, former CEO of Hydro-Québec

Croatia

Danko Končar, majority shareholder of the Afarak Group

France

Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH

Philippe Starck, designer

Germany

Curt Engelhorn, former owner of Roche Diagnostics and DePuy

Paul Gauselmann, founder and CEO of Gauselmann

Greece

Giannis Alafouzos, owner of Panathinaikos F.C.

George Economou, shipowner

Telis Mistakidis, major shareholder in Glencore

Nikolas Tsakos, shipowner

Giannis Vardinogiannis, former owner of Panathinaikos F.C.

Vardis Vardinogiannis, chairman and controlling shareholder of Motor Oil Hellas and Vegas Oil and Gas

Iceland

Björgólfur Thor Björgólfsson, investor and chairman of Novator Partners

India

Vijay Mallya, chairman of United Breweries Group

Bandi Parthasaradhi Reddy, founder of Hetero Drugs

Niira Radia, former corporate lobbyist

Ashok Seth, chairman of Fortis-Escorts

Israel

Dan Gertler, founder and president of Dan Gertler International Group

Idan Ofer, founder of Tanker Pacific and principal of Quantum Pacific Group

Kazakhstan

Nurzhan Subkhanberdin, banker and former chairman of Kazkommertsbank

Nina Zhussupova, member of the board of directors of Kazkommertsbank

Malaysia

Datuk Kamaruddin Taib, chairman of HSBC Bank Malaysia

Mexico

Alberto Baillères, chairman of Grupo BAL and ITAM

Ricardo Salinas Pliego, founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas

Carlos Slim, owner of Grupo Carso

Pakistan

Alauddin Feerasta, chairman of Soneri Bank

Sadruddin Hashwani, founder and chairman of Hashoo Group

Mian Muhammad Mansha, chairman of Nishat Group

Russia

Roman Abramovich, owner of Millhouse Capital and Chelsea F.C.

Oleg Deripaska, founder and owner of Basic Element

Leonid Mikhelson, CEO of Novatek

Yuri Milner, US-based Russian Silicon Valley investor, and investor in a real estate start-up, Cadre, founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner

Aleksandr Ponomarenko, businessman and owner of "Putin's Palace"

Arkady and Boris Romanovich Rotenberg, co-owners of SGM

Marina Sechina, investor and ex-wife of Igor Sechin

Oleg Tinkov, oligarch

Alisher Usmanov, oligarch

Saudi Arabia

Bakr bin Laden, chairman of the Saudi Binladen Group

Spain

Francisco Correa Sánchez, businessman and head of the Gürtel case

Daniel Maté, billionaire co-owner of Glencore

Juan Bautista Granell Campderà, businessman

Carmen Cervera, Baroness of Thyssen-Bornemisza, socialité and art collector, and his son Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza

Joan Laporta, former president of FC Barcelona

José Manuel Loureda, former president and co-founder of Sacyr

Francisco Ortiz von Bismarck, businessman and economist, descendant of Otto von Bismarck

Luis del Rivero, former president and co-founder of Sacyr

Georges Santamaría, owner of Terra Mítica and Aqualandia

Juan Villalonga, former CEO of Telefónica

Sweden

Christer Gardell, hedge fund manager

Bertil Hult, founder of EF Education First

Leif Östling, former CEO of Scania AB and chairman of Confederation of Swedish Enterprise

Syria

Rami Makhlouf, owner of Syriatel

United Kingdom

Arron Banks, businessman, political donor and co-founder of the Leave.EU campaign

David and Frederick Barclay, businessmen founders of Shop Direct, and David's wife (now widow), Zoe Barclay.

Robert Edmiston, billionaire motor trade entrepreneur and founder of Christian Vision

Hugh Grosvenor, businessman and landowner

Hugh van Cutsem, landowner, banker, businessman, and horse-breeder

Jim Mellon, billionaire businessman

Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of Tradepoint and father of actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge

United States

Sheldon Adelson, founder of the Las Vegas Sands

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft

Thomas J. Barrack Jr., founder of Colony NorthStar

J. Christopher and Robert Burch, brothers

Jeffrey Epstein, late financier and convicted sex offender

John Augustine Hearst, business and media executive

Carl Icahn, founder of Icahn Enterprises

Peter Karmanos, majority owner of the Carolina Hurricanes

Charles and David Koch, respectively CEO and EVP of Koch Industries

Robert Kraft, founder and CEO of Kraft Group

Robert Mercer, co-CEO of Renaissance Technologies

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay

Stephen Pagliuca, co-chairman of Bain Capital

Geoffrey Palmer, real estate developer

Stephen A. Schwarzman, founder of The Blackstone Group

Jim Simons, co-founder of Renaissance Technologies

Paul Singer, founder of Elliott Management Corporation

Warren Stephens, chairman, president, and CEO of Stephens Inc.

Steve Wynn, CEO of Wynn Resorts

Zambia

Hakainde Hichilema, businessman and politician

Entertainment personalities

Australia

Michael Hutchence, singer

Nicole Kidman, actress

Keith Urban, singer

Canada

Avril Lavigne, singer

Colombia

Shakira, singer

France

Jean-Jacques Annaud, film director

India

Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood actor

Manyata Dutt, actress

Ireland

Bono, singer and philanthropist

Spain

José María Cano, painter and former member of Mecano

El Cordobés, bullfighter

José Frade, film producer

Julio Iglesias and his manager, Alfredo Fraile Lameyer

Inés Sastre, model and film actress

United Kingdom

Fiona Delany, actress in Mrs.