I DECIDED TO DO SOME RESEARCH ON THE OCCRP WHISTLE BLOWERS AND THEIR CLAIM THAT THEY WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PANAMA PAPERS RELEASE?
FACTS ABOUT THE PANAMA PAPERS !!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
They were originally called "Mossack Fonseca papers". leaked by a John Doe in 2015 to the who leaked the documents to German journalist Bastian Obermayer from the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), remains anonymous.
SZ asked the ICIJ for help because of the amount of data involved. Journalists from 107 media organizations in 80 countries analyzed documents detailing the operations of the law firm.
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1) occrp claim that they leaked the panama papers is wrong, they reported on after it was leaked by a john Doe?
https://www.occrp.org/en/panamapapers/
Two years after the original Panama Papers leaks, the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung has received a fresh trove of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, the now-defunct Panamanian law firm.
2) In a May 6, 2016 statement, John Doe cited income inequality as the reason for the action and said they leaked the documents "simply because I understood enough about their contents to realize the scale of the injustices they described". Doe added that they had never worked for any government or intelligence agency and expressed willingness to help prosecutors if granted immunity from prosecution. After SZ verified that the statement did in fact come from the source for the Panama Papers, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) posted the full document on its website