The Panama Papers Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their MoneyFrom the winners of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting 11. 5 million documents sent through encrypted channels. The secret records of 214,000 offshore companies. The largest data leak in history. In early 2015, an anonymous whistle blower led investigative journalists Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier into the shadow economy where the super rich hide billions of dollars in complex financial networks. Thus began the ground