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epa05243757 A composite picture made available on 04 April 2016 shows the journalists of Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Bastian Obermayer (L) and Frederik Obermaier (R), photographed in Frankfurt Main, Germany, 19 May 2015 and Munich, Germany, 9 May 2011. Millions of leaked documents published on 03 April 2016 suggest that 140 politicians and officials from around the globe, including 72 former and current world leaders, have connections with secret 'offshore' companies to escape tax scrutiny in their countries. The leak involves 11.5 million documents from one of the world's largest offshore law firms, Mossack Fonseca, based in Panama. The investigation dubbed 'The Panama Papers' was undertaken and headed by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), with the collaboration of reporters from more than 100 media outlets in 78 countries around the world. EPA/SCHMIDT/HASE