Open AccessThe Panama Papers and foreign trusts: what should be done?
Author(s) -
John Prebble
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
policy quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2324-1101
pISSN - 2324-1098
DOI - 10.26686/pq.v12i3.4602
Subject(s) - panama , newspaper , german , cache , history , political science , business , law , computer science , computer security , archaeology , operating system
On 3 April 2016 the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung announced that for the past year they had been analysing a cache of 11.5 million records, now known as the Panama Papers, taken from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The cache included documents relating to trusts and companies in several tax havens. The ICIJ gave details of a number of users or beneficial owners of these structures. Sixty thousand of the records related to New Zealand.