This is a partial list of people named in the Panama Papers as shareholders, directors and beneficiaries of offshore companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released the full list of companies and individuals in the Panama Papers on 10 May 2016. ICIJ published the following disclaimer with regard to the data provided: "There are legitimate uses for offshore companies, foundations and trusts. We do not intend to suggest or imply that any persons, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Power Players interactive application have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly." The disclosures "implicated at least 140 politicians from more than 50 countries" in tax evasion schemes.
Government officials
Current or former heads of state or government of their country as defined by their political position at the time of announcement, not whether the documents in the Papers relating to them coincided with their period of office.
Heads of state
Former heads of state
Heads of government
Former heads of government
- Malcolm Turnbull, former Prime Minister of Australia
- Sigmundur DavÃÂð Gunnlaugsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland, left office in April 2016 as a result of the Panama Papers revelations
- Bjarni Benediktsson, former Prime Minister of Iceland
- Silvio Berlusconi (d. 2023), former Prime Minister of Italy
- Bidzina Ivanishvili, former Prime Minister of Georgia
- Pavlo Lazarenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine
- Ion Sturza, former Prime Minister of Moldova
- Ayad Allawi, former Acting Prime Minister of Iraq
- Ali Abu al-Ragheb (d. 2026), former Prime Minister of Jordan
- Benazir Bhutto (d. 2007), former Prime Minister of Pakistan and a member of the Bhutto family
- Nawaz Sharif, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Asif Ali Zardari, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, former Prime Minister of Qatar
Other government officials
- Ian Kirby, President of the Botswana Court of Appeal and former attorney general
- Bruno Itoua, Minister of Scientific Research and Technical Innovation and former chairman of the SNPC
- Emmanuel Ndahiro, brigadier general and former chief of the National Intelligence and Security Services
- José Manuel Soria, Minister of Industry, Energy and Tourism. (resigned April 15, 2016, four days after appearing named)
- Rodrigo Rato, former Vice President of the Government of Spain, and former president of Bankia and IMF.
- Ignacio González, former president of the Community of Madrid. His penthouse in Estepona, which is being investigated by the Spanish courts, has links with offshore companies. He has been charged with embezzlement and bribery.
- Antonio Hernández Mancha, retired senator of Senate of Spain and former president of Alianza Popular (nowadays Partido Popular).
Relatives and associates of government officials
Non-government officials/organizations
International Federation of Association Football
Persons associated with the world governing body FIFA:
Football team owners and executives
- Josep LluÃÂs Nuñez, Spanish businessman, president of FC Barcelona from 1978 to 2000.
- , Spanish businessman and vice-president of FC Barcelona.
- Real Sociedad (Spain) and its presidentsâÂÂprincipally Iñaki OteguiâÂÂunder the leadership of José Luis Astiazarán, Miguel Fuentes, MarÃÂa de la Peña, Juan Larzábal, and Iñaki Badiola
- Waldemar Kita, Franco-Polish businessman, president of Football Club de Nantes
- Dermot Desmond, Irish businessman and majority shareholder of Celtic F.C.
- Dmitry Rybolovlev, Russian businessman, president of AS Monaco
- Daniel Fonseca, Uruguayan former footballer, now a football agent.
- Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French businessman, owner of Olympique de Marseille
- Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman, former owner of Olympiacos F.C.
Football players
- Mattias Asper, Swedish retired goalkeeper
- Valeri Karpin, Russian retired midfielder, current coach of FC Torpedo Armavir
- Nihat Kahveci, Turkish retired footballer
- Tayfun Korkut, Turkish retired footballer and manager
- Darko KovaÃÂeviÃÂ, Serbian retired footballer
- Gabriel Schürrer, Argentine retired defender
- Sander Westerveld, Dutch retired goalkeeper, current coach of Ajax Cape Town
- Andy Cole, English former footballer
- Gabriel Heinze, Argentine former footballer, account with his mother.
- Kevin Keegan, English former footballer and manager
- Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer for F.C Barcelona, and his father Jorge Horacio Messi
- Brian Steen Nielsen, Danish former footballer and sports director of Aarhus Gymnastikforening
- Marc Rieper, Danish retired footballer
- Clarence Seedorf, Dutch retired footballer
- Leonardo Ulloa, Argentine footballer
- Willian Borges da Silva, Brazilian footballer formerly of Chelsea, now playing for Fulham
- Iván Zamorano, Chilean retired footballer, account during Real Madrid years
- Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer who plays for Peñarol, as well his mother Pilar Corazo and his brother Pablo
Motorsports
Other sports
Media personalities
- Paul McGuinness, Irish manager of Irish rock group U2
- BertÃÂn Osborne, Spanish singer and TV personality
- Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor
- AgustÃÂn Almodóvar, Spanish film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar
- Imanol Arias, Spanish actor
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Spanish-Peruvian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
- Juan Luis Cebrián, Spanish journalist, co-founder of El PaÃÂs, CEO of Prisa, Spanish media conglomerate
- Carmen Lomana, Spanish celebrity and socialite
- Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Indian actress and former Miss World
- Stanley Kubrick, American filmmaker
- Emilio Estevez, American actor, director, and writer
- David Geffen, American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, philanthropist and co-founder of DreamWorks
- Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor
- Emma Watson, English actress
- Simon Cowell, English reality television personality, entrepreneur, film, record, and television producer
- Paul Burrell, former butler to Princess Diana
- Barbara D'Urso, Italian television actress and singer
- Franco Dragone, Italian-Belgian theatre director, best known for his work for Cirque du Soleil
- Carlo Verdone, Italian actor, screenwriter and film director
- Edith González, Mexican actress and dancer.
- Alfonso de Angoitia, Mexican Executive Vice President of Grupo Televisa, S.A.
- Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, record producer and actor
- Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican singer
- Juanes, Colombian singer
- Orlando Petinatti, Uruguayan entertainer and radio host
- Nicky Wu, Taiwanese actor
Business people
- Shishir Bajoria, Indian promoter of SK Bajoria Group, which has steel refractory units
- Mohan Lal Lohia, Indian, father of Sri Prakash Lohia, founder and chairman of Indorama Corporation
- Rattan Chadha, Indian-born Dutch businessman, founder of Mexx clothing
- Abdul Rashid Mir, kashmiri founder and CEO of Cottage Industries Exposition Limited (CIE) and Tabasum Mir
- Abasaheb Garware family from India's Maharashtra state
- Onkar Kanwar, Indian chairman & MD of Apollo Tyres
- Mallika Srinivasan, chairman and CEO of TAFE - Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited and Indira Sivasailam
- K P Singh, chairman and CEO of DLF (company).
- Vijay Mallya, Indian businessman and former Member of Parliament of the Rajya Sabha
- Idan Ofer, London-based Israeli business magnate, founder of Tanker Pacific
- Teddy Sagi, a London-based Israeli billionaire businessman founder of Playtech and the majority shareholder of Market Tech Holdings, which owns London's Camden Market, and of two AIM-listed technology companies
- Bank Leumi's Israeli bank: representatives and board members
- Jacob Engel, Israeli businessman active in the African mining industry
- Dan Gertler, Israeli billionaire businessman, founder and president of the Dan Gertler International
- Jacob Weinroth, Israeli attorney, founding partner of Dr. J. Weinroth & Co law office, and owner and director of Sapir Holdings
- Lev Avnerovich Leviev, Israeli businessman, philanthropist, investor and owner of Lexinter International Inc., which holds shares in Vauxhall Securities Inc, and chairman of the Africa-Israel Investments corporation.
- Beny Steinmetz, Israeli businessman, with diamond-mining, engineering and real estate companies, and his business partner and brother Daniel Steinmetz
- Vishen Lakhiani, co-founder and CEO of Mindvalley, and author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind
- Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Mexican billionaire business mogul, who is owner of Felicitas Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands
- Alberto Cortina and his cousin Alberto Alcocer, Spanish businessmen, owners of Grupo ACS, the biggest construction company in the world and of 21% of Ence, the largest paper pulp and biomass energy company in Europe
- Javier de la Rosa and his daughter Gabriela de la Rosa, Spanish businessman and lawyer.
- Miguel Blesa, Spanish financial officer, banker and president of the board of Caja Madrid from 1996 to 2009, which since 2013 is being investigated by judicial irregularities during his tenure and arrested by this corruption scandal.
- Eufemiano Fuentes, Spanish sports doctor, implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case
- Carlos Ortega, CEO of Pepe Jeans, Spanish clothing group
- Glencore, Swiss company of formerly fugitive multinational hedge fund manager Marc Rich
- Arron Banks, British political donor to the Tories and UKIP
- David and Frederick Barclay, British retail and media moguls
- Rocco Forte, British hotelier
- Peter Goldstein, British co-founder of Superdrug
- Stuart Thomson Gulliver, British banking business executive, CEO of HSBC
- Anthony Gumbiner, British businessman, chairman of Hallman Group
- John Jennings, former chairman of Shell
- Soulieman Marouf, British-Syrian businessman
- Heather Mills, British entrepreneur and environmentalist
- Richard Morris, British industrialist
- Nigel Rudd, British businessman
- Patokh Chodiev, Uzbek billionaire, oligarch; and two of his relatives, Alexander Machkevitch and Alijan Ibragimov
- Javier Bertucci, evangelical pastor, businessman and presidential candidate.
Dual nationals
Non-governmental organizations
Organized crime
See also
References
External links