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The Panama Papers
The Panama Papers’ are a set of 11.5 million confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. The documents name acting heads of state of five countries - Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine and United Arab Emirates - as well as government officials, close relatives and close associates of various heads of government of more than 40 other countries, including China, Brazil, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, United Kingdom and Syria.
Comprising documents created since the 1970s, the 2.6-terabyte set was given by an anonymous source to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and subsequently to the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The papers were distributed to and analyzed by about 400 journalists at 107 media organizations in more than 80 countries. The first news reports based on the set, along with 149 of the documents themselves, were published on April 3, 2016. Among other planned disclosures, the full list of companies is to be released in early May 2016.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICJI) leak link offshore companires tax havens