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

From the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting

11.5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history.

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, The Panama Papers is the gripping account of how the story of the century was exposed to the world.

Author: Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer
Publisher: ONEWorld Publications
Published: 04/11/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781786070708
ISBN10: 1786070707
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | White Collar Crime
- Political Science | Corruption & Misconduct
- History | General

About the Author
Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer are award-winning investigative journalists at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany's largest broadsheet. The first people to have access to the Panama Papers, they were previously part of the international team of journalists who revealed the Offshore Leaks, Luxembourg Leaks and Swiss Leaks. In 2017, they received the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, and were finalists in International Reporting.