From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting
11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history.
In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground-breaking investigation that saw an international team of 400 journalists work in secret for a year to uncover cases involving heads of state, politicians, businessmen, big banks, the mafia, diamond miners, art dealers and celebrities. A real-life thriller,The Panama Papersis the gripping account of how the story of the century was exposed to the world.
Foreword by Luke Harding, author of The Snowden Files and Guardian leader writer for the Panama Papers
Reveals how prime ministers, dictators, FIFA officials, the mafia, directors of large corporations and members of Putins inner circle manage and hide billions of dollars
The Panama papers dwarf even the Snowden revelations in terms of the sheer amount of data (11.5 million documents or 2.6 terabytes' worth) and the number of powerful people implicated 42 former or current heads of state have been implicated so far
Set to lead to a major crackdown on tax havens across the globe and new revelations coming out as the investigation is still ongoingThis updated edition includes new information, index and a new jacket.
The inside story from the journalists who set the investigation in motion
Frederik ObermaierandBastian Obermayerare award-winning investigative journalists at S?ddeutsche Zeitung, Germanys largest broadsheet. The first people to have access to the Panama Papers, they were previously part of the international team of journalists who revealedlƒ»
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