Offshore shell companies are not illegal, but reporters found many of the people named in the Panama Papers used their corporations for illegal purposes, including fraud, tax evasion, and skirting international sanctions. The Malta-based reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia was internationally recognized for her work exposing government corruption, money laundering, organized crime, and other schemes. About a year after the Panama Papers were published, Galizia was using information in the documents to uncover the financial misdeeds of people associated with the government of Malta when she was assassinated by a car bomb.
A b/w photo of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia Image source and credit: Running Commentary, Galizia's online reporter's notebook
On this day in 2016 the Panama Papers were first published.
More than 11 million legal documents from a single Panamanian company, Mossack-Fonseca, revealed the names of people behind 214,000 offshore shell companies.
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