Leonid Bershidsky: Were the Panama Papers planted? Who cares.
Police stand guard outside the Mossack Fonseca law firm offices in Panama City during a raid on April 12, 2016.
Last week, a respected Russia scholar in the U.S. speculated that the Kremlin might be behind the so-called Panama Papers, the big dump of data about offshore accounts that has implicated several countries' officials in shady dealings. And on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin of Russia blamed the U.S. for the leak.