Rajan did not question the reporters’ prerogative and premises. The meeting was not stretched unnecessarily. Within a couple of hours, Vaidy received a message that Mukund Rajan, chief ethics officer of the Tata Group, would like to meet him and Jay to better understand the matter at hand.
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To be doubly sure, around noon the next day, Jay shared a few more details of the company from the Mossack Fonseca archive for further perusal and requested a reconfirmation of Ratan Tata’s denial. Yet, a bunch of Mossack Fonseca records claimed otherwise. Tata’s denial was emphatic and unequivocal. Venkataraman, replied, ‘Mr RNT has or had no connection whatsoever with either the organisation or the personnel’ concerned. Within hours, the managing trustee of the Tata Trust, R. When it was time to seek responses, Jay wrote to Ratan Tata on 28 March 2016, requesting him to comment on his connection with and role in the company, and his associations with Perez and Montoya, both named in several international cases of money laundering. Records showed that one Francis Perez represented Tata in several board meetings of the said company where one Leticia Montoya also served as a director along with Tata. In November 2015, Jay found at least a dozen documents in the leaked data that named Ratan Tata as the president, director and the legal representative of Coral Resorts Development Limited Inc., a Panamanian company set up in August 1986. National Nutrition Week 2022: How nutrition requirements change with age – A complete guideĪmong the rare ‘false positives’ in the leaked data, the most dramatic was of the Ratan Tata who was not. Two days later, it was clear that the web tutorial the ICIJ was putting its members through was a preparation for a bigger, much bigger, data leak. There was also a line in the email that the webinar would guide reporters on ‘how to work with leaks’. She put in an email request for a recording of the webinar which the ICIJ staff had said was connected to the Swiss Leaks. In all that rush, she missed a webinar that the ICIJ conducted on ‘how to discover data stories from leaked data’. The only Indian journalist in the collaboration, Ritu Sarin, head of investigations at the Indian Express, was busy chasing follow-ups of the probe the government had ordered. In July 2015, reporters who had collaborated with the ICIJ on the HSBC Swiss Leaks project were still exulting over its impact. Perhaps it was named so with the expectation that a huge fire would be kindled. The Panama Papers investigation was code-named ‘Project Prometheus’ after the character from Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods and gave it to human beings.
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