How was the information sourced
Covering 40 years of emails, financial records and passport details, an investigation by more than 100 media groups shows how some of the world's most powerful people have secreted away their money in offshore jurisdictions
Who all are in the dock?
Several other world leaders, including the prime minister of Pakistan, the king of Saudi Arabia and the children of the president of Azerbaijan, also control offshore companies.
What is Mossack Fonseca
Mossack Fonseca worked with at least 33 people and companies blacklisted by Washington because of business links to Mexican drug lords, terrorist organisations or rogue nations, including North Korea. One supplied fuel for planes the US alleges Syria's regime used to bomb its own citizens.
Who all deal with Mossack Fonseca
The firm’s customers include Ponzi schemers, drug kingpins, tax evaders and a US businessman convicted of travelling to Russia to have sex with underage orphans, who signed papers for an offshore company while in jail.
Mammoth Mossack
More than 500 banks, their subsidiaries and branches have worked with Mossack Fonseca since the 1970s to help clients manage offshore companies. UBS set up more than 1,100 and HSBC and its affiliates created more than 2,300.
The surprising link
The files also identify a convicted money launderer who claimed he'd arranged a $50,000 illegal campaign contribution used to pay the Watergate burglars, 29 billionaires from Forbes’ rich list, and martial arts film star Jackie Chan.
Who has what
Leaders, sportsmen & screen and dozens of billionaires were among those named and shamed in panama papers.
Banks, companies and aides close to Russian President Vladimir Putin shuffled as much as $2 billion using offshore companies, gaining hidden influence in the media, automotive industries. Kremlin says journalists working on the project are are ‘ex-CIA’
Iceland’s PM Sigm-undur Gunnlaugsson and his wife used an offshore company, Wintris Inc., to hide millions of dollars of investments in major banks during financial crisis.
3of Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif’s children — Maryam, Hasan and Hussain — were named as owners of London real estate through offshore entities.
Though he is not named himself, UK PM David cameron is linked to the “Panama Papers” by his late father Ian Cameron, who died in 2010.
Benazir Bhutto, her aide Abdul Rehman Malik and nephew set up a company, in the British Virgin Islands.
The world’s best football player, Lionel Messi, and his father own a shell company, Mega Star Enterprises, previously unknown to Spanish investigators probing the Barcelona forward’s tax affairs.
