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PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP) — Panama is suspending its probe into the Panama Papers, the leak of a legal firm’s files on clients who stored assets in opaque offshore companies, prosecutors said Tuesday. The records from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca revealed the names of leaders, politicians, celebrities and wealthy individuals from around the world who used the firm to create offshore entities to hide their assets. A legal challenge on constitutional grounds required […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) by Paul Handley The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on Monday published online detailed data from the Panama Papers trove on more than 200,000 secret offshore companies. The searchable database built on just a portion of the documents leaked from the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca reveals more than 360,000 names of individuals and companies behind the anonymous shell firms, the ICIJ said. Reports already published in April based on the explosive […]
PANAMA City (AFP)– One of the founders of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the explosive “Panama Papers” revelations on off-shore holdings, told AFP on Tuesday his company was hacked by servers abroad. Ramon Fonseca said the firm had lodged a criminal complaint with Panamanian prosecutors on Monday over the breach. He added that in all the reporting so far “nobody is talking of the hack, and that is the only crime […]
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND (Reuters) – FIFA President Gianni Infantino released a statement on Tuesday (April 5) denying involvement with companies implicated in the Panama leaks shortly after an article by Britain’s Guardian newspaper said the leaks showed contracts co-signed by Infantino in his role as director of legal services at UEFA, with an Argentine firm that bought TV rights for European continental competitions. “As I previously stated, I never personally dealt with Cross Trading nor […]
PANAMA CITY, Panama (Reuters) – Panama’s President Juan Carlos Varela reaffirmed his country’s commitment to tax transparency after governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful after a leak of four decades of documents from a local law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies. The “Panama Papers” revealed financial arrangements of politicians and public figures including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers […]
(Reuters) – More than 11.5 million documents from the files of law firm Mossack Fonseca, based in the tax haven of Panama, were leaked on Sunday (April 3), revealing details of hundreds of thousands of clients. The documents are at the center of an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and more than 100 other news organizations around the globe. ICIJ is the international arm of the […]
