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Panama Papers

The Panama Papers are a trove of 11.5 million documents leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca, revealing the secret financial dealings of the world's rich and powerful. Forty years of emails and financial records show how politicians, tycoons and celebrities stashed their secret cash in anonymous offshore bank accounts, in one of the biggest leaks of insider information in history.

Mossack Fonseca's Hong Kong offices were their busiest in the world, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists documents showed, setting up thousands of shell companies. Photo: AFP

Holding a foreign passport is fine – as long as no one finds out

The Panama Papers have come up with many intriguing, and to their subjects, embarrassing revelations. Among these are the number of prominent public figures in Hong Kong and Macau who hold a foreign passport. This opens such self-styled Chinese patriots to charges of hypocrisy.

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