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| Panama Papers: Offshore Assets of World Leaders Revealed by Leak
A massive cache of leaked documents detail a shadowy network of banks and law firms that help many of the world's most powerful people — politicians, criminals, athletes, magnates, celebrities — hide money in offshore accounts, according to an coalition of investigative reporters. The 11.5 million documents, said to be obtained by cryptic means, is larger than the trove of documents that have been published by WikiLeaks, and their release threw several countries into turmoil. Among the dozen current and former world leaders named in the documents as controlling offshore companies were the prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan, the king of Saudi Arabia, and the children of the president of Azerbaijan, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism, a nonprofit organization based in Washington that published the papers through more than 100 news organizations around the world on Sunday. The group said they had also tied the movement of $2 billion by associates of