Panama Papers
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Panama Papers leak included 11.5 million Mossack Fonseca records dating to 1977
“And John Doe had copied every file from this firm, every client sheet, every record since 1977 to the present day. They've represented about 11 and a half million documents, and he gave them to the German newspaper.”
ICIJ's Panama Papers probe used 400 reporters across 76 countries in secret
“In the end, we had about 400 reporters working on the stories, In 76 different countries, and we worked in silence and total secrecy for about a year.”
Panama Papers data contained information relevant to the FBI's FIFA corruption probe
“While we were researching the stories, the FBI began to indict officials at FIFA, and of course we were seeing in the Panama Papers all of this information that would have been relevant to the FBI investigation”
ICIJ maintained Panama Papers secrecy by building a private online newsroom
“How we kept a secret was we basically built an online newsroom where all the journalists would go every day. And in this online newsroom, they were able to gather around the topics of interest. But that also allowed them a kind of a venting where if they found…”
Panama Papers exposure forced resignations of Icelandic and Pakistani prime ministers
“Within 24 hours, their prime minister of Iceland had to resign. There were public protests around the world. After about a year, we also took down the Prime Minister of Pakistan. So we had two world leaders who had to fall.”
Panama Papers leaks led to $500 million in global tax recoveries
“At the moment we've got about a 150 inquiries in something like 80 countries around the world. Governments have recovered about half a billion dollars in taxes”
ICIJ uncovered $20 billion in offshore wealth linked to Vladimir Putin's associate
“Yeah, arguably the biggest story that came out of the Panama Papers was that we found about twenty billion dollars that was being funneled through offshore companies, That was linked to a guy in Russia who was the godfather of Vladimir Putin's child. And here …”