Gu discloses the incident and reports Maywood to Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun who secretly records the conversation he then reports her to the Chinese government. Gu responds by poisoning Maywood's drink. Maywood demands and pressures Gu for a much higher price if she wants him to continue laundering money for her family through a shell company Mossack owns. He visits a Chongqing hotel to meet Gu Kailai. Heywood (renamed "Maywood" in the film), is an intermediary for wealthy Chinese looking to funnel money abroad. The third story is a dramatization of the death of Neil Heywood, part of the Wang Lijun incident.
She accepts his offer, but when she travels to Mossack's offices in Panama City to claim the shares, they turn out to be worthless because they are actually part of a shell company under Mossack that only exists on paper. When Simone discovers her best friend is having an affair with Charles, he offers her shares (supposedly worth $20 million) in one of his investment companies to keep her silence. The second story is about Simone, who is the daughter of Charles, an African billionaire. When Malchus travels to Miami he is arrested by IRS-CI Special Agents at the airport. When Ellen bumps into Malchus, not knowing who he is, she asks questions about his firm's location. When her attempts to contact Mossack and the Nevis-based company are unsuccessful, Ellen travels there to confront Malchus Boncamper, the manager of the trust. The Nevis-based company is actually a trust of one of Mossack's shell corporations, which is under investigation by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for fraud. When Ellen tries to get compensation from the boating company for Joe's death, she cannot because the reinsurance company that the boat company's owner and son, Matthew, bought their policy from, was sold to another company based out of Nevis. Ĭharacters Ellen Martin and her husband, Joe, are on a pleasure boat, the Ethan Allen at Lake George, New York, when it capsizes, drowning Joe and many others. While the story has been somewhat fictionalized, the names of the law firm at the center of the scandal, along with those of its founders, were not. The pair serve as narrators for three stories of people around the world who are adversely affected by the machinations of their company, Mossack Fonseca. Lawyers Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca introduce themselves, along with the concept of money and credit. The film received mixed reviews from critics. The Laundromat had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2019, and was released in select cinemas on September 27, 2019, before it’s streaming release on October 18, 2019, by Netflix. The film stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Robert Patrick, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer, Matthias Schoenaerts, James Cromwell, and Sharon Stone. It is based on the book Secrecy World about the Panama Papers scandal by author Jake Bernstein. The Laundromat is a 2019 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh with a screenplay by Scott Z.
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