The Panama Papers: The Biggest Data Leak in History
An anonymous source leaked 11.5 million documents exposing how the world's wealthy and powerful used offshore tax havens to hide money.
On April 3, 2016, 11.5 million documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca exposed how the world's elite hide money in offshore tax havens.
THE LEAK:
- 11.5 million documents
- 2.6 terabytes of data
- 40 years of records (1977-2016)
- Data from 200+ countries
WHO WAS EXPOSED:
- 12 current or former heads of state
- Vladimir Putin's associates
- Iceland PM Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson (resigned)
- Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif (eventually ousted)
- Lionel Messi, Jackie Chan, and many others
INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION: 400+ journalists from 100+ media organizations in 80 countries collaborated for over a year.
THE MURDER: Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who reported on Panama Papers connections, was killed by a car bomb in October 2017.
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