The Panama Papers Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money

<B>From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting</B><BR> <BR>11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history.<BR> <BR>In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground-breaking investigation that saw an international team of 400 journalists work in secret for a year to uncover cases involving heads of state, politicians, businessmen, big banks, the mafia, diamond miners, art dealers and celebrities. A real-life thriller, <I>The Panama </I>Papers is the gripping account of how the story of the century was exposed to the world.