Paradise Papers :Trump secretary dealings with Putin relatives

Washington Nov 6: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the Paradise Papers documents that reveal offshore activities of some of the world's most powerful people and companies.

The leaks have major world leaders name such as United Kingdom's Queen Elizabeth, donors of U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Jordanian Queen Noor al-Hussein among others.

The documents reveal that US President Donald Trump's commerce secretary Wilbur Ross is doing business with Russian president Vladimir Putin's son-in-law through a shipping venture in Russia.



The Commerce Secretary kept a stake in the shipping firm, Navigator Holdings Ltd., which is incorporated in the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific.Navigator's largest customers, contributing more than $68 million in revenue since 2014, is the Moscow-based gas and petrochemicals company Sibur a company owned by Kirill Shamalov (Putin's son in Law).

However, the US Commerce department didn't respond to the papers. The documents revealed a lot of questions that did the US president knows these dealings.Will the president the responsibility for his secretary dealings?