The Panama Papers. Sounds like a Bond movie only better. It involves an unprecedented data leak — 2.6 terabytes (enough to fill 600 DVDs) involving 11.5 million in tax and legal documents — and the largest collaborative investigation in journalism history involving more than 370 journalists from over 70 countries, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The first reports came in early Sunday from German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung outlining how the world’s rich and powerful use tax havens to hide their wealth, which, I hear, is not illegal. Except for the tax evasion part. The list includes 143 …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
