The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) announced that on May 9, it will release selected data purported to be leaked or stolen from the internal records of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.  ICIJ plans to release this selected data in a searchable database.  The release is expected to cover 200,000 companies and other

In late 2014, an anonymous source secretly leaked to a German newspaper reporter nearly four decades of confidential and proprietary data about shell companies registered by the multinational Panamian based law firm Mossack Fonseca.

The German newspaper contacted the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) who assembled more than 100 other international news outlets, including