The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has made all the Panama papers public, the leak of documentation about people from all over the world and their companies using tax havens like the one in Central America. The database is now available online for anyone to consult, and it includes information referring to at least 320,000 companies. Among them appear 1,170 companies linked in some way to Spain. The so-called Panama papers have already caused the resignations of Spain’s former industry, energy and tourism minister, José Manuel Soria, and Iceland’s prime minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson.
‘El Confidencial’, the digital newspaper that along with ‘La Sexta’ has been exclusively releasing documents until now that the Consortium has decided to post the database, explained, however, that some of the names that have come out so far, Soria’s among them, do not appear. The database leaked from the office of Panamanian lawyers Mossack Fonseca, one of the most important in creating tax haven companies, provides the structured part of the information included in the leak.
However, there was no access to the structured part, which has information on such things as passports, bank accounts, notary documentation or company registration certificates. Apart from Soria’s connection, the Panama papers have revealed links between tax haven companies and the names of figures from the worlds of culture and sport in Spain, such as the brothers Pedro and Agustín Almodóvar, Imanol Arias, Ana Duato, Leo Messi, Àlex Crivillé and Michel Platini, among others.
