Panama Papers

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million documents, which is 2.6 terabytes of data provided by an unnamed source to a German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung. More than a year before the first publication of the Panama leaks in April 2016, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung was offered large caches of documents from an anonymous source, who identified himself by the classic placeholder name “John Doe”. The newspaper accepted and began to receive more and more material; in the space of a year they acquired a total of 2.6 terabytes of data consisting of documents related to Mossack Fonseca.

The Panama Papers contain information on 214,488 offshore entities related to public officials. The leak consists of 11.5 million documents created between the 1970s and late 2015 by Mossack Fonseca. They were taken from his files. His firm is described as the fourth-largest offshore law firm in the world.

The documents reference 12 current or former world leaders, as well as 128 other politicians and public officials.

The Panama Papers can be found on https://panamapapers.icij.org/