More than 11 million documents from a Panamanian law firm were released over the weekend in a massive data dump that purported to show the company helped clients launder money and evade taxes.
A source (unnamed in the media reports) gave the financial and legal documents to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which shared them with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism. More than 100 media outlets have participated in analyzing the documents so far.
A yearlong investigation by the ICIJ said the law firm based in Panama, Mossack Fonseca, helped companies and individuals with tax havens, including those that have been sanctioned …read more
Source: PBS
