Pandora Papers

<p>The Pandora Papers are 11.9 million <a href="/facts/Data_breach/xGxRFY1A">leaked documents</a> with 2.9 <a href="/facts/Terabytes/BNHUp9Qq">terabytes</a> of data that the <a href="/facts/International_Consortium_of_Investigative_Journalists/M3PVUtwq">International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</a> (ICIJ) published  beginning on 3 October 2021. The leak exposed the secret offshore accounts of 35 world leaders, including current and former presidents, prime ministers, and heads of state as well as more than 100 business leaders, billionaires, and celebrities. The news organizations of the ICIJ described the document leak as their most expansive exposé of financial secrecy yet, containing documents, images, emails and spreadsheets from 14 financial service companies, in nations including Panama, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates. The size of the leak surpassed their previous release of the <a href="/facts/Panama_Papers/VGCKclAg">Panama Papers</a> in 2016, which had 11.5 million confidential documents and 2.6 terabytes of data. The ICIJ said it is not identifying its source for the documents.
</p><p>The ICIJ estimates that the total global amount of money held offshore (outside the country where the money was made) is between US$5.6 trillion and US$32 trillion.
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