by Felix Richter, Statista.com
— this post authored by Niall McCarthy
On Sunday, a massive leak of eleven million documents revealed how the rich and powerful hide their wealth in offshore tax havens.
Mossack Fonseca helped incorporate over 210,000 shell companies over 40 years. Most of these were only active for a short time and the number of them peaked at 81,810 in 2009.
This chart shows the number of offshore companies managed by Mossack Fonseca by year
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