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Panama lawyer at center of data leak denounces attack on privacy

The head of a Panama-based law firm at the center of a massive leak of offshore financial data on Sunday denied any wrongdoing, and said his firm has fallen victim to “an international campaign against privacy”. German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung said it received a cache of 11.5 million leaked documents from the law firm's database, and …

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Asian shares firm after solid U.S. jobs data, dollar soft

By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian share prices held firm on Monday after solid U.S. payroll data underpinned investor risk sentiment while last week's dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen kept the U.S. dollar in check. Oil…

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Tax authorities begin probes into some people named in Panama Papers leak

By Jane Wardell and Elida Moreno SYDNEY/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm at the center of a massive data leak for possible tax evasion. Other jurisdictions are likely to follow suit following the leak over the weekend of details of hundreds of thousands of clients in more than 11.5 million documents from the files of law firm Mossack Fonseca, based in the tax haven of Panama. The…

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Tax authorities begin probes into some people named in Panama Papers leak