http://www.bbc.com/news/world-35918844
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Eleven million documents were leaked from one of the world's most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.
They show how Mossack Fonseca has helped clients launder money, dodge sanctions and evade tax.
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The documents show links to 72 current or former heads of state in the data, including dictators accused of looting their own countries.
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The data contains secret offshore companies linked to the families and associates of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syria's president Bashar al-Assad.
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In a bigger leak (in quantity) than what Wikileaks put out BBC is analyzing the leak from an anonymous source about the dealings of Mossack Fonseca.
Some pretty explosive stuff, not that it will come as too much of a surprise. Putin, indirectly, and Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson prime minister of Iceland have been linked to money laundering and tax avoidance schemes.