Panama Papers: There’s a Logic to Every Leak
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The other day the leading Munich daily ’Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ)’ published a “sensational” article titled: “Panama Papers: The secrets of dirty money”. The on-line version is presented in the best traditions of the yellow press. .
The article begins like a fairy tale:
“Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) with encrypted documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world”.
The mysterious messenger delivered megatons of compromising information while seeking no financial compensation. He simply “wanted to make these crimes public”. Frankly speaking, I’m willing to bet that behind this modern Robin Hood are special services. In order to make the story more credible, the SZ added a video with a sort of “script” of the messenger’s call.
Then it describes how journalists worked for 12 months with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).
As if to justify a rather dubious source of information, it emphasized the size of the leaks.
“The Panama Papers include approximately 11.5 million documents. The data primarily comprises e-mails, pdf files, photo files, and excerpts of an internal Mossack Fonseca database, covering a period from the 1970s to the spring of 2016”.
