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Panama Papers
2016 document leak scandal
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Panama Papers (2) · tax evasion (2) · offshore accounts (2) · financial transparency (2) · global investigation (1) · money laundering (1) · Mossack Fonseca (1) · corruption (1) · investigations (1)
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The Panama Papers (Spanish: Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents (or 2.6 terabytes of data) published from April 3, 2016. The papers detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. These documents, some dating back to the 1970s, were created by, and taken from, the former Panamanian offshore law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca, and compiled with similar leaks into a searchable database.
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