The Panama Paper: Breaking The Story Of How The Rich And Powerful Hide Their Money

In early 2015, an anonymous whistle-blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super-rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground-breaking investigation that saw an international team of 400 journalists work in secret for a year to uncover cases involving heads of state, politicians, businessmen, big banks, the mafia, diamond miners, art dealers, and celebrities. A real-life thriller, The Panama Papers is the gripping account of how the story of the century was exposed to the world

About the Author

Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer are award-winning investigative journalists at Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest broadsheet. The first people to have access to the Panama Papers, they were previously part of the international team of journalists who revealed the Offshore Leaks, Luxembourg Leaks, and Swiss Leaks. In 2017, they received the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting and were finalists in International Reporting.