Mossack Fonseca to start legal action over Panama Papers leak

May 11, 2016 22:41

The law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal says it is filing suit against the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists for the leak of information it says is false.

The public gained its first access to the Panama Papers records of over 200,000 secret offshore companies when the ICIJ put a searchable database online earlier Monday.

The database, built on just a portion of the 11.5 million documents leaked from Panama's Mossack Fonseca law firm, reveals more than 360,000 names of individuals and companies behind the anonymous shell firms, the ICIJ said.

The law firm urged the ICIJ to cease and desist prior to the leak online, but it moved ahead with the release.

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