News leaks

Governments across the world began investigating possible financial wrongdoing by the rich and powerful on April 4 after a leak of four decades of documents from a Panamanian law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies.

Media outlets all over the Balkans are scanning the leaked data from Mossack Fonseca to find out which of their own nationals are named in the 11.5 million files.

The documents from the fourth largest law firm in the world, known as the Panama Papers, show the many ways in which rich people around the world have exploited secretive offshore tax regimes and tax havens.

Bulgaria's revenue agency has filed a formal request to receive information about Bulgarians whose names are involved in Panama Papers, the leak of some 11.5 million documents revealing their offshore financial dealings.

An international consortium of media outlets has published an extensive investigation into the offshore financial dealings of political leaders, movie celebrities and sports starts based on a huge volume of documents reportedly leaked by an anonymous source.

11.5 million documents and 2.6 terabytes of information have been leaked from of one of the largest law firms in Panama revealing how the rich launder money.

The disclosure of the documents and data from the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca is one of the biggest leaks in history, bigger than WikiLeaks and Snowden's revelations.

The biggest leak in journalist history, called the Panama Papers, has revealed a global network of corruption and tax avoidance, and includes many rich and famous people.

In the wake of the wikileaks IMF scandal, Vice President of the European Parliament Dimitrios Papadimoulis sent a letter to the body’s President Martin Schulz, all the EP political group leaders, except Marine Le Pen’s group, and the task force assigned with overseeing the Greek economic program calling for a clear stance against attempts to undermine the implementation of the reform

The CIA accused WikiLeaks of "malicious intent" after the anti-secrecy campaign group published an initial tranche of documents Oct. 21 it said were from the personal email account of director John Brennan.

US President Barack Obama on Aug. 26 apologised to Tokyo after WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said on Aug. 26. 

Tokyo on August 3 described claims that Washington spied on Japanese politicians and major firms as "deeply regrettable", in its first official response to revelations from whistleblower group WikiLeaks.

"I will withhold comment. But If this is true, as an ally, it's deeply regrettable," the government's top spokesman Yoshihide Suga told a regular press briefing.