The Panama Papers

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The leak also provides details of the hidden financial dealings of 128 more politicians and public officials around the world.The cache of 11.5 million records shows how a global industry of law firms and big banks sells financial secrecy to politicians, fraudsters and drug traffickers as well as billionaires, celebrities and sports stars.

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.A massive leak of documents exposes the offshore holdings of 12 current and former world leaders and reveals how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin secretly shuffled as much as $2 billion through banks and shadow companies.

The leak also provides details of the hidden financial dealings of 128 more politicians and public officials around the world.The cache of 11.5 million records shows how a global industry of law firms and big banks sells financial secrecy to politicians, fraudsters and drug traffickers as well as billionaires, celebrities and sports stars.

ICIJ • The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists ProjectsICIJ (The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists): The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is a global network of more than 190 investigative journalists in more than 65 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.

Founded in 1997 by the respected American journalist Chuck Lewis, ICIJ was launched as a project of the Center for Public Integrity to extend the Center’s style of watchdog journalism, focusing on issues that do not stop at national frontiers: cross-border crime, corruption, and the accountability of power.

Backed by the Center and its computer-assisted reporting specialists, public records experts, fact-checkers and lawyers, ICIJ reporters and editors provide real-time resources and state-of-the-art tools and techniques to journalists around the world.The advisory committee: 1. Bill Kovach, 2. Chuck Lewis, 3. Rosental Calmon Alves, 4. Phillip Knightley, 5. Gwen Lister, 6. Goenawan Mohamad,7. Reginald Chua and Brant Houston.

Note: Panama papers not belongs to panama canal The Panama Canal is a man-made 48-mile waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a key conduit for international maritime trade.

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