Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption: Millions of Documents Show Heads of State, Criminals and Celebrities Using Secret Hideaways in Tax Havens
- Washington The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists 2016
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This is part of the of Panama Papers revelations from the sprawling, secretive industry of offshore that the world's rich and powerful use to hide assets and skirt rules by setting up front companies in far-flung jurisdictions. Current and former world leaders in the data include prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan, the president of Ukraine, and the king of Saudi Arabia are implicated. More than 214,000 offshore entities appear in the leak, connected to people in more than 200 countries and territories Major banks have driven the creation of hard-to-trace companies in offshore havens
