Editor's Note: The Panama Papers project is an international investigation based on documents obtained from a Panama-based offshore services provider called Mossack Fonseca. The documents reveal the secretive offshore companies used to hide wealth, evade taxes and commit fraud by the world's dictators, business tycoons and criminals. The documents were received by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, a Kyiv Post partner. According to the OCCRP, the stories reveal the shocking extent to which senior political figures and other powerful people are using sophisticated offshore structures to hide their vast wealth. Hundreds of politicians, businesspeople and sportspersons are implicated.
OCCRP: Who’s in the Panama Papers?
The Panama Papers is an international journalistic investigation based on leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based offshore services provider.
