As we all now know Millions of documents were leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The hidden wealth of some of the world’s most prominent leaders, politicians and celebrities has been revealed by an unprecedented leak of millions of documents that show some of the ways in which the rich can exploit secretive offshore tax regimes.

It is claimed that the documents show how the company has helped clients launder money, dodge sanctions and evade tax – this may be true or not but what the Panama Papers do reveal today:

1. Twelve national leaders are among 143 politicians, their families and close associates from around the world known to have been using offshore tax havens.
2. National leaders with offshore wealth include
   1. Pakistan’s prime minister,
   2. Nawaz Sharif; former vice-president of Iraq,
   3. Ayad Allawi; president of the Ukraine,
   4. Petro Poroshenko and the son of Egypt’s former president,
   5. Alaa Mubarak.
3. The prime minister of Iceland, Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, and his wife bought an offshore company in 2007.
   1. He did not declare an interest in the company when entering parliament in 2009 and sold his 50% to his wife for 70p, eight months later.
   2. The offshore company was used to invest millions of dollars of inherited money, according to a document signed by Mr Gunnlaugsson’s wife Anna Sigurlaug Palsdottir in 2015.
4. The files also reveal a suspected billion-dollar money laundering ring involving close associates of Russia’s President Putin.
   1. The operation was run by Bank Rossiya, which is subject to US and EU sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
5. Three former UK Conservative MPs, six members of the UK House of Lords and dozens of donors to UK political parties have had offshore assets.
6. Clients of Mossack Fonseca include 23 people who have had sanctions imposed on them for supporting regimes in
   1. North Korea,
   2. Zimbabwe,
   3. Russia,
   4. Iran, and
   5. Syria
7. A member of Fifa’s ethics committee, meant to be leading reform at world football’s scandal-hit governing body, acted as a lawyer for individuals and companies recently charged with bribery and corruption.
8. The families of at least eight current and former members of China’s supreme ruling body have been found to have hidden wealth offshore.
9. Mossack Fonseca provided structures designed to hide the identity of real owners including beneficiary services.
   1. One American millionaire was apparently offered fake ownership records to hide money from the authorities – this included using a 90-year-old British man as a ‘beneficial owner’.
10. Offshore companies linked to the families and associates of
    1. Egypt’s former president Hosni Mubarak,
    2. Libya’s former leader Muammar Gaddafi and
    3. Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad.