What are the Pandora Papers?

The Pandora Papers is a leak of millions of confidential documents exposing 35 current and former world leaders, more than 330 politicians and public officials in 91 countries and a worldwide line-up of fugitives and con artists. A global team of journalists led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists spent more than a year structuring, researching and analysing the more than 11.9 million records in the Pandora Papers leak. This involved making sense of a 2.94 terabyte data trove exposing the offshore secrets of wealthy elites. These are people who use tax and secrecy havens to buy property and hide assets. Many avoid taxes and worse. What are the key findings? The secret documents expose offshore dealings of the King of Jordan, the presidents of Ukraine, Kenya and Ecuador, the prime minister of the Czech Republic and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The files also detail financial activities of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “unofficial minister of propaganda” and more than 130 billionaires from Russia, the United States, Turkey and other nations. Times of Malta exposed how former minister and EU commissioner John Dalli had interests in an...