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Watergate to real estate: The tangled web of the Panama Papers

The leak reveals an alternate financial universe that links a single law firm with a rogue's gallery of politicians, moguls, criminals and agents.
Demonstrations against Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, April 4, 2016, after leaked documents showed his wife owning a tax haven-based company with large claims on the country's collapsed banks. (Photo by Stigtryggur Johannsson/Reuters)
Demonstrations against Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson, April 4, 2016, after leaked documents showed his wife owning a tax haven-based company with large claims on the country's collapsed banks.
By Jon Schuppe, Jon Schuppe

The web of hidden money and offshore shell companies documented in the Panama Papers reveals an alternate financial universe that links a single law firm with a globe-spanning rogue's gallery of politicians, moguls, criminals and shady agents.

The Panama Papers leak details connections between the 1983 Brink's-Mat gold heist in London to a shell company set up by Mossack Fonseca.
The Panama Papers leak details connections between the 1983 Brink's-Mat gold heist in London to a shell company set up by Mossack Fonseca.