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The more than 11 million documents, which date back four decades, are allegedly connected to Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca.
The files include people and companies that the U.S. has blacklisted due to drug trafficking and terrorism links, according to the ICIJ.
How have the accused responded to the Panama Papers?
“Our industry is not particularly well understood by the public, and unfortunately this series of articles will only serve to deepen that confusion. The facts are these: while we may have been the victim of a data breach, nothing we’ve seen in this illegally obtained cache of documents suggests we’ve done anything illegal, and that’s very much in keeping with the global reputation we’ve built over the past 40 years of doing business the right way, right in Panama. Obviously, no one likes to have their property stolen, and we intend to do whatever we can to ensure the guilty parties are brought to justice.”
Firm co-founder Ramon Fonseca Mora told CNN earlier that the information published is false and full of inaccuracies and that parties “In many of the circumstances” cited by the ICIJ “Are not and have never been clients of Mossack Fonseca.” The firm provided longer statements to ICIJ.
An anonymous source gave the documents to Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung and the newspaper shared them with ICIJ.