World watches as Panama documents posted online
PANAMA is once again headlined around the world following the Monday, May 9, publishing of over 200,000 from law firm Mossack Fonseca by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
The documents now available to the public represents a fraction of the 11.5 million documents from Mossack Fonseca leaked to a German newspaper and subsequently shared with the ICIJ partners. They do not include banking records, e-mails or personal information, but already they are being scoured around the world by media and prosecutors seeking links to criminal activity.
In 2013, after the publication of ‘Offshore Leaks,’ the ICIJ received more than 800 notices from people who scrutinized the database. Several of these alerts turned into stories produced by the consortium.
The database allows people to do their own searches in the data.
Information is available on the web site of the ICIJ.
Meanwhile numerous stories have already appeared in Canada linking criminals there to offshore companies set up by the Panama firm.
