11.5 million leaked documents that turned offshore shell companies from secret to headline.
means a 2016 leak of law firm mossack fonseca's internal files exposing how the rich and powerful hid wealth using anonymous shell companies.
from an anonymous source known only as john doe handed 2.6 terabytes of data to a german newspaper in 2015, which passed it to the international consortium of investigative journalists for a year of secret cross-border digging.
sigmundur gunnlaugsson — iceland's pm resigned within days of the 2016 leak
vladimir putin associates — cellist friend linked to 2 billion dollars in offshore flows
lionel messi — named alongside father in spanish tax fraud allegations
mossack fonseca — the panama law firm at the center shut down in 2018