Panama Papers Show Ties to Chinese Leaders

“At least three of the seven people on the Chinese Communist Party’s most powerful committee, including President Xi Jinping, have relatives who have controlled secretive offshore companies,” the New York Times reports.

“The disclosures by the organization, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, risked new embarrassment for the Chinese authorities, already unnerved and infuriated by the organization’s leaks of the documents, known as the Panama Papers. Chinese government censors have moved aggressively since the first release of leaked documents on Sunday to purge any media’s mention of them in China.”