The Panama Papers

• Main Author: Obermaier, Frederik (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: London Oneworld Publications 2017
• Subjects: Tax evasion; Tax havens; Money laundering; Political corruption
• Online Access: Click Here to View Status and Holdings.
• Physical Description: x, 390 pages 20 cm
• ISBN: 9781786070708

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 Papers is the gripping account of how the story of the century was exposed to the world.