The Pandora papers, files containing secret wealth and dealings of 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials, are being considered as one of the biggest leaks of financial documents. The files, obtained from offshore companies, reveal that ex-UK PM Tony Blair and his wife saved £312,000 in stamp duty when they bought a London office and the King of Jordan secretly amassed £70m of UK and US property.

Names like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Czech prime minister Andrej Babis are also a part of the files. 

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Obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a nonprofit newsroom and network of journalists headquartered in Washington, D.C., the data includes 11.9 million financial records, containing 2.94 terabytes of confidential information from 14 offshore service providers, enterprises that set up and manage shell companies and trusts in tax havens around the globe.

The files cover secret offshore holdings of more than 130 billionaires from 45 countries. Current and former leaders who have owned secret companies and trusts named in the leak include King Abdullah II of Jordan, the prime ministers of Côte d’Ivoire and the Czech Republic, the presidents of Ecuador, Kenya and Gabon and the former presidents of El Salvador, Panama, Paraguay and Honduras.

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The Pandora Papers report that the United States has become an attractive destination for hidden wealth. The files include documents from 206 US trusts in 15 states and Washington, D.C., and 22 US trustee companies.

As per the Papers, Tony and Cherie Blair evaded stamp duty when they bought a £6.45m property in Marylebone, central London in 2017. They add that Azerbeijan ruler’s 11-year-old son owns a £33m office block in London.