A cache of 11.5 million records belonging to Panama-based offshore service provider called Mossack Fonseca was leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
It was then shared by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) over secure platforms with over 100 partners worldwide, including the The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“ICIJ and Suddeutsche Zeitung deserve profound credit for pulling off this massive project,” OCCRP chief editor Drew Sullivan said. “It was an audacious undertaking. We are proud to have represented Eastern Europe and the CIS states and told those stories. It all added up in the end to earn this great prize.”
