Panama papers

It’s the CIA’s Fault — How Foreign Leaders Try to Discredit the Panama Papers

The leaked Panama papers have implicated dozens of world leaders, their relatives, and their business associates, linking them to offshore partnerships and investment companies notorious for tax evasion and money laundering. While the first installment of the year-long investigation into 11.5 million leaked documents was published online on April 3, what you know about it may depend on what country you’re in.

That’s because some governments are censoring information on the investigation outright, while others are trying moving to discredit the hundreds of journalists involved by calling it a politically-motivated investigation. Here’s how governments around the world have reacted.