According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), embedded in 11.5 million secret files, are about 140 Politicians. From Heads of states, their associates, Ministers, and elected officials, from countries around the globe, connected to offshore companies in twenty-one havens.
This list held by a Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which could easily be passed as a list of 'who's-who in world power, threw light on a growing network of anonymous investors who often use shell corporations across the world, to make secretive investments and support luxurious living.
Current Heads of States who made the list include:
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Emir of Abu Dhabi
Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina
Salman, King of Saudi Arabia
Bashar Al Assad, Syrian President
Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine
Najib Abdul Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
Xi Jinping, President of People’s Republic of China
Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan
Associates/ Relatives of government officials:
Daniel Muñoz, aide to former presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner (Argentina)
Mehriban Aliyeva, Leyla Aliyeva, Arzu Aliyeva, Heydar Aliyev and Sevil Aliyeva, family of President Ilham Aliyev (Azerbaijan)
Idalécio de Oliveira, potential briber of President of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha (Brazil)
Patrick Henri Devillers, French business associate of Gu Kailai, the wife of former Minister of Commerce and Party Secretary of Chongqing Bo Xilai, and convicted murderer (China)
Deng Jiagui, brother-in-law of President Xi Jinping (China)
Jasmine Li, granddaughter of former Chairperson of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Jia Qinglin (China)
Li Xiaolin, daughter of former Premier Li Peng (China)
Javier Molina Bonilla, former advisor to Director of the National Intelligence Secretariat Rommy Vallejo (Ecuador)
Alaa Mubarak, son of former President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)
Arnaud Claude, former law partner of former President Nicolas Sarkozy (France)
John Addo Kufuor, son of former President John Kufuor (Ghana)
Mamadie Touré, widow of former President Lansana Conté (Guinea)
César Rosenthal, son of former Vice President Jaime Rosenthal (Honduras)
Frank Flannery, political consultant and Fine Gael's former Director of Organisations and Strategy (Ireland)
Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia, convicted of bribery alongside former Senator Marcello Dell'Utri (Italy)
Jean-Claude N'Da Ametchi, associate of former President Laurent Gbagbo (Côte d’Ivoire)
Nurali Aliyev, grandson of President Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan)
Mohd Nazifuddin Najib, son of Prime Minister Najib Razak (Malaysia)
Juan Armando Hinojosa, "favourite contractor" of President Enrique Peña Nieto (Mexico)
Mounir Majidi, personal secretary of King Mohammed VI (Morocco)
Maryam Nawaz, Hasan Nawaz Sharif, and Hussain Nawaz Sharif, children of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (Pakistan)
Sergei Roldugin, Arkady Rotenberg, and Boris Rotenberg, friends of President Vladimir Putin (Russia)
Mamadou Pouye, friend of Karim Wade, himself the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade (Senegal)
Khulubuse Zuma, nephew of President Jacob Zuma (South Africa)
Ro Jae-Hun, son of former President Roh Tae-woo (South Korea)
Pilar de Borbón, sister of former King Juan Carlos I (Spain)
Micaela Domecq Solís-Beaumont, wife of Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy and former Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment (Spain)
Rami and Hafez Makhlouf, cousin and father of President Bashar al-Assad (Syria)
Kojo Annan, son of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan (United Nations)
Ian Cameron, father of Prime Minister David Cameron (United Kingdom
Ex Leaders include:
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
Bidzina Ivanishvili, Prime Minister of Georgia
Ali Abu al-Ragheb, Prime Minister of Jordan
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Prime Minister of Qatar
Ayad Allawi, Prime Minister of Iraq
Ahmed al-Mirghani, President of Sudan
Pavlo Lazarenko, Prime Minister of Ukraine
Government Officials:
José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum - Angola
Ian Kirby, President of the Botswana Court of Appeal and former Attorney General - Botswana
Abdeslam Bouchouareb, Minister of Industry and Mines - Algeria
Néstor Grindetti, Mayor of Lanús - Agentina
Jaynet Désiréé Kabila Kyungu, Member of the National Assembly, Bruno Itoua, Minister of Scientific Research and Technical Innovation and former Chairman of the SNPC - DR of the Congo
Eduardo Cunha, President of the Chamber of Deputies, João Lyra, Member of the Chamber of Deputies and Joaquim Barbosa, former President and Justice of the Supreme Federal Court - Brazil
Alfredo Ovalle Rodriguez, intelligence agency associate - Chile
Ang Vong Vathana, Minister of Justice - Cambodia
Galo Chirboga, current Attorney General, Pedro Delgado, former Governor of the Central Bank - Ecuador
Stavros Papastavrou, advisor of former Prime Ministers Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras - Greece
Zsolt Horváth, former Member of the National Assembly - Hungary
Jérome Cahuzac, Former Minister of Budget - France
Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance and Economic Affair, Ólöf Nordal, Minister of the Interior - Iceland
Kalpana Rawal, Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Anurag Kejriwal, life-time expelled former President of the Lok Satta Party Delhi Branch - India
James Ibori, former Governor of Delta State - Nigeria
Konrad Mizzi, Minister of Energy and Health - Malta
Riccardo Francolini, former chairman of the state-owned Savings Bank - Panama
Mohammad Mustafa, former Minister of National Economy - Palestine
Paweł Piskorski, former Mayor of Warsaw - Poland
César Almeyda, Director of the National Intelligence Service - Peru
Emmanuel Ndahiro, brigadier general and former chief of the intelligence agency - Rwanda
Imee Marcos, daughter of Ferdinand Marcos - Philippines
Michael Ashcroft, Member of the House of Lords, Michael Mates, former Member of the House of Commons, Pamela Sharples, Member of the House of Lords - United Kingdom
Muhammad bin Nayef bin Adbulaziz Al-Saud, Crown Prince and Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia
Jesús Villanueva, former Director of PDVSA (Large oil company), Victor Cruz Weffer, former commander-in-chief of the army - Venezuela
Attan Shansonga, former Ambassador to the United States - Zambia
Notable individuals:
Marianna Olszewski: American financial author and life coach.
Nick Faldo: English professional golfer on the PGA European Tour, now mainly an on-air golf analyst
Vinod Adani, Elder brother of Gautam Adani, Adani Group
Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Indian actress and former Miss World.
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor
Franco Dragone, theatre director, known for his work for Cirque du Soleil
Hollman Carranza, son of Víctor Carranza
Agustín Almodóvar, Spanish film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar
Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Italian industrial and politician
Solomon Humes, Bahamian Bishop of a small denomination
Nico Rosberg, Formula 1 driver at Mercedes AMG Petronas.
Soccer players:
Gabriel Heinze, Argentine former soccer player, account during Manchester United years
Iván Zamorano, retired Chilean soccer striker, account during Real Madrid years
Mattias Asper, Valeri Karpin, Nihat Kahveci, Tayfun Korkut, Darko Kovačević, Gabriel Schürrer and Sander Westerveld; all had accounts created by Real Sociedad and its president(s) principally Iñaki Otegui, under the leadership of José Luis Astiazarán, Miguel Fuentes, María de la Peña, Juan Larzábal and Iñaki Badiola
Lionel Messi, soccer player for Barcelona and the Argentine national team
Brian Steen Nielsen, former Danish international and sports director of Aarhus Gymnastikforening
Marc Rieper, retired Danish international
Leonardo Ulloa, Argentine professional soccer player
Individuals connected with the world governing body of association football (FIFA):
Eugenio Figueredo, former President of CONMEBOL and Vice President and member of the ethics committee of FIFA
Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, Argentine businessmen also implicated in the 2015 FIFA corruption case
Juan Pedro Damiani, member of the FIFA Ethics Committee
Michel Platini, former President of UEFA
Jérôme Valcke, former Secretary General of FIFA.
United States Federal officials said in a recent statement, that they couldn't comment on the specifics of the leaked documents, as it is still being reviews. However the Justice Department stated that it takes very seriously, all credible allegations of high level, foreign corruption that might have a link to the United States or the U.S. financial system.”
