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Is it true: Pandora Papers offshore-leak (Oct 3 2021)?

Confirmed5% confidence

Yes — this is confirmed.

The Pandora Papers are based on 11.9 million authentic documents from 14 offshore service providers, processed by 600+ journalists across 117 countries. Key subjects — Tony Blair, King Abdullah II, Andrej Babiš — confirmed the underlying arrangements while disputing their characterisation. The documents are genuine; the offshore structures are real and documented. No credible fabrication claim has been advanced against any of the 14 source datasets.

The claim

On 3 October 2021 the ICIJ and 600+ journalists across 117 countries published findings from 11.9 million documents leaked from 14 offshore service providers operating in jurisdictions including the B

Key evidence

11.9 million documents from 14 separate source organisations

Most Pandora Papers arrangements were legal under applicable law

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