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"Putin. Offshore, Impeachment." -- A lone protester holds up a sign in Moscow protesting over the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen to have been implicated in murky financial dealings revealed in the Panama Papers
"Putin. Offshore, Impeachment." -- A lone protester holds up a sign in Moscow protesting over the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen to have been implicated in murky financial dealings revealed in the Panama Papers

Live Blog: The Panama Papers

Follow all the latest developments as they happen

Final Summary for April 13

-- The Russian cellist linked by the Panama Papers to murky offshore finances says the money came from donations.

-- German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has outlined details of a plan to combat tax havens in the wake of the Panama leaks.

-- British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to announce that new legislation making companies criminally liable if employees aid tax evasion will be introduced this year

-- -- Cameron had earlier published his tax records in an attempt to draw a line under questions about his personal finances raised by the mention of his late father in the Panama Papers for setting up an offshore fund.

-- The unauthorized use of the International Red Cross's name by entities listed in the Panama Papers poses "enormous" risks for its operations and staff, the head of the humanitarian body said.

-- Several thousand people filled a big square in Malta's capital on April 10 and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat after the leaked Panama Papers said two of his political allies had offshore accounts.

-- Police have raided the El Salvador offices of the Panama-based law firm at the heart of the "Panama Papers" scandal that has revealed how the wealthy in many countries stashed their riches offshore.

15:08 7.4.2016

Here's another video from our multimedia department:

Panama Papers Protests: Iceland vs. Russia

How did Icelanders and Russians react to their respective officials being implicated in the Panama Papers scandal?

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RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service has been canvassing opinion on the Panama papers on the streets of Baku:

Panama Papers: Azeri President's Dealings Considered Business As Usual

The massive data leak from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca indicated that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev's wife and daughters have been secret shareholders in several offshore companies with a multimillion-dollar property portfolio. But while the "Panama Papers" reports have caused uproar in some countries this week, there was barely a ripple on the streets of Baku.

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14:24 7.4.2016

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been commenting on the questions raised about him in respect to the Panama Papers. Komsomolskaya Pravda correspondent Dmitry Smirnov is tweeting his comments in real time. You can follow Smirnov'stweets here (in Russian): @dimsmirnov175

14:01 7.4.2016

Infographic shows number employees at British government's Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) working on "benefit fraud" compared to the number of tax investigators probing billions of pounds in alleged tax evasion:

13:58 7.4.2016

Unrepentant Mossack Fonseca partner Jurgen Mossack:

13:38 7.4.2016

Italian socialist cartoonist Alfio Krancic (originally from the former Yugoslavia) illustrates the RT (formerly Russia Today) line that the Panama papers are a U.S. effort to besmirch President Barrack Obama's enemies:

13:26 7.4.2016
Valeriya Hontareva
Valeriya Hontareva

The Ukrainian news website UA Today is reporting that Ukrainian National Bank head Valeriya Hontareva has resigned, possibly a victim of the Panama leaks. The leaks revealed that she had an offshore partnership with Yury Solovyov, the first vice president of Russia's state-owned VTB bank.

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