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In October 2019, The Laundromat, a movie based on the events of the Panama Papers was released on the streaming service Netflix. Prior to this, Mossack and Fonseca issued a lawsuit [ 142 ] in aim of preventing the release, citing defamation and potential damage to their rights of a fair trial by jury, should one begin. [ 143 ]
The Laundromat is a 2019 American comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh with a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns.It is based on the book Secrecy World about the Panama Papers scandal by author Jake Bernstein.
The film began production in February 2018 [105] and was released on February 8, 2019, by Netflix. [106] [107] [108] Soderbergh's film The Laundromat is a political thriller about the international leak of the Panama Papers, written by Scott Z. Burns and based on the book Secrecy World, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jake Bernstein. [109]
More than thirty Costa Rican law firms are mentioned in the Panama Papers as referring clients to Mossack Fonseca, resulting in the creation of more than 360 shell companies. in particular Gonzalo Fajardo & Asociados, founded by former Finance Ministry official and later Economy Minister Gonzalo Fajardo Salas, and over nearly two decades helped ...
Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm at the center of the "Panama Papers" scandal, has filed a lawsuit against Netflix Inc <NFLX.O> over its new movie based on the case, accusing the video ...
The US investigative journalist Bob Woodward called the Panama Papers investigation a "triumph of journalism", [22] the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden "the biggest leak in the history of journalism". [23] Later on Netflix announced to turn the investigation into a movie based on the book of Obermayer and Obermaier. [24] [25]
The Panama Papers resulted from a hack of his law firm's computer systems. Fonseca and his business partner Jürgen Mossack were arrested and jailed in February 2017. [ 88 ] They were released in April 2017 after a judge ruled they had cooperated with the investigation and ordered them each to pay $500,000 in bail.
The Panama Papers include a collection of 11 million secret financial documents that illustrate how some of the world's richest people hide their money. The repercussions of the leaks have been ...