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Papeles de Panamá

Also spelled: Panama Papers

Definition

The 2016 leak of millions of documents from a Panamanian law firm, published by an international consortium of journalists. The name attached a single firm's case to an entire country, and Panama has been fighting that label on international lists ever since.

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After the Panama Papers, banking rules got stricter.Después de los Papeles de Panamá endurecieron las reglas bancarias.

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