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The Panama Papers (Spanish: 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 offshore entities.
Apr 3, 2016 · ICIJ reveals how a giant leak of 11.5 million records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing by secretive offshore companies. Explore the original stories, key figures, impact and coverage from the Panama Papers investigation.
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The Panama Papers refer to the 11.5 million leaked encrypted confidential documents that were the property of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca. The documents were released on April 3, 2016, by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), dubbing them the “Panama Papers.” The document exposed the network of more than 214,000 tax havens involv...
The Panama Papers are documents that contain personal financial information about many wealthy individuals and public officials that had previously been kept private. Among those named in the leak were a dozen current or former world leaders, 128 public officials, politicians, hundreds of celebrities, business people, and other wealthy individuals....
In 2015, Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) was contacted by an anonymous source calling themselves "John Doe," who offered to leak the documents. Doe did not demand any financial compensation in return, according to the SZ. The total volume of data comes to about 2.6 terabytes, making it the biggest data leak in history, and it pertains to the period spanni...
The group of documents was referred to as the "Panama Papers" because the leak originated from Panama. However, the Panamanian government has registered strong objections to the name as it appears to put some blame or negative association on the country. Panama attests that it has had no involvement in the actions of Mossack Fonseca. Nonetheless, t...
The Panama Papers are a massive leak of financial files from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that set up offshore entities for wealthy clients. The leak revealed a network of 214,000 tax havens involving people and entities from 200 nations, and led to some resignations, investigations, and prosecutions.
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Aug 21, 2019 · The Panama Papers is a massive leak of documents from a law firm that exposed how the global elite hid their wealth and deals through offshore companies. The Laundromat is a movie based on the investigation, starring Meryl Streep and Antonio Banderas as the founders of the law firm.
Apr 3, 2016 · The Panama Papers is a massive leak of 11.5 million files that reveals the offshore links of world leaders, celebrities, criminals and more. ICIJ and more than 100 media outlets spent a year analyzing the data and publishing stories on the hidden financial dealings of the elite.
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Explore the data from the Panama Papers, a global investigation that exposed the inner workings of a Panamanian law firm that created offshore entities for clients. Browse by entity, jurisdiction, linked to and more.
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