Dubai Uncovered is the name of a leak detailing property ownership in
Dubai
Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
. The data, originally from 2020, was revealed in 2022.
It revealed 274,000 owners of 800,000 properties located in Dubai.
Of these, 191,000 were foreigners.
The data was originally obtained by
Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS), before being shared with the
Norwegian
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financial newspaper
E24, who then lead the investigation.
20 international media outlets co-operated to investigate the leak.
Dubai has been described as "one of the most opaque financial hubs in the world", and one of the most popular destinations for illicit money.
According to
Brussels Times, the leak revealed "a huge black hole in international anti-
money laundering
Money laundering is the process of concealing the origin of money, obtained from illicit activities such as drug trafficking, corruption, embezzlement or gambling, by converting it into a legitimate source. It is a crime in many jurisdictions ...
efforts centered
icaround the Dubai real estate market".
The leak revealed that over 100 members of the Russian elite held properties in the city, including heavily-sanctioned individuals like
Ruslan Baisarov
Ruslan Sulimovich Baysarov (russian: Руслан Сулимович Байса́ров; born August 9, 1968 in Prigorodnoye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian businessman of Chechen descent and the owner and general director of the Tuva Ene ...
and
Ramzan Kadyrov
Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov ce, КъадаргӀеран Ахьмат-кӏант Рамзан, translit= (born 5 October 1976) is a Russian politician who currently serves as the Head of the Chechen Republic. He was formerly affiliated to the ...
. Additionally, internationally wanted criminals have been implicated, like
Daniel Kinahan
Daniel Joseph Kinahan (born 25 June 1977) is an Irish boxing promoter and suspected crime boss. He has been named by the High Court of Ireland as a senior figure in organised crime on a global scale. The Criminal Assets Bureau has stated he "c ...
.
See also
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Bahamas Leaks The Bahama Leaks are 1.3 million internal files from the company register of the Bahamas. After the release of the Panama Papers in 2016, an unknown source handed over internal data from the national corporate registry of the Bahamas to Frederik O ...
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Cyprus Papers The Cyprus Papers was a leak of government documents related to the Cyprus Investment Program (CIP) obtained by Al Jazeera and released in August 2020. The CIP allows non-citizens to apply and obtain a Cypriot passport by investing at least 2 milli ...
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Panama Papers
The Panama Papers ( es, Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) that were published beginning on April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 ...
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Pandora Papers
The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million leaked documents with 2.9 terabytes of data that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 3 ...
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Paradise Papers
The Paradise Papers are a set of over 13.4 million confidential electronic documents relating to offshore investments that were leaked to the German reporters Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer, from the newspaper'' Süddeutsch ...
References
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External links
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Dubai Uncovered - OCCRP
News leaks
Investigative journalism
Financial scandals
Whistleblowing
Finance fraud