On Friday,  police investigators continued their previous day's search of the headquarters of in , Germany, for evidence of money laundering and other wrongdoing in connection to the group of leaked financial documents called the . A police spokesperson explained the roughly 170 searchers, including officers, prosecutors and tax experts, encountered such a volume of material the matter could not be concluded in one day. "Panama Papers" is an umbrella term for roughly ten million documents from law firm , leaked to the press in spring 2016. The documents showed fourteen banks helped wealthy clients hide billions of US dollars of wealth to avoid taxes and other regulations. British newspaper  suggested Deutsche Bank controlled roughly a third of the 1200 shell companies used to accomplish this. There were protests worldwide, several criminal prosecutions, and the leaders of the governments of Iceland and Pakistan both resigned. , a  who played a prominent role in investigation based on the Panama Papers, was killed in a car bombing last year.
On Friday, German police investigators continued their previous day's search of the headquarters of in , Germany, for evidence of money laundering and other wrongdoing in connection to the group of leaked financial documents called the . A police spokesperson explained the roughly 170 searchers, including officers, prosecutors and tax experts, encountered such a volume of material the matter could not be concluded in one day. "Panama Papers" is an umbrella term for roughly ten million documents from law firm , leaked to the press in spring 2016. The documents showed fourteen banks helped wealthy clients hide billions of US dollars of wealth to avoid taxes and other regulations. British newspaper The Guardian suggested Deutsche Bank controlled roughly a third of the 1200 shell companies used to accomplish this. There were protests worldwide, several criminal prosecutions, and the leaders of the governments of Iceland and Pakistan both resigned. , a Maltese journalist who played a prominent role in investigation based on the Panama Papers, was killed in a car bombing last year.
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Maltese journalist