The biggest leak of financial data in history has revealed how 12 current or former world leaders, the global rich and a host of celebrities are allegedly using offshore tax havens to hide their wealth. The so-called Panama Papers, part of a leak of 11million files to a German newspaper, also implicate those in Russian president Vladimir Putin's (centre) inner circle, along with families and associates of Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi and Syria's president Bashar al-Assad.
Lord Ashcroft, Baroness Pamela Sharples and former Tory MP Michael Mates are among the British politicians named. Documents were leaked from one of the world's most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, although it has not been revealed how or by whom.
They show how the company has allegedly helped clients launder money, dodge sanctions and evade tax. The world leaders named are, clockwise from top left, the president of Argentina Mauricio Macri, former Emir of Qatar Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, King of Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Saud, former Ukraine prime minister Pavlo Lazarenko, former prime minister of Qatar Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, former prime minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili, UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, ex-prime minister of Iraq Ayad Allawi, former prime minister of Jordan Ali Abu al-Ragheb, former president of Sudan Ahmad Ali al-Mirghani and prime minister of Iceland Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.
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