This is a partial list of individuals named in the Panama Papers as shareholders, directors and beneficiaries of offshore companies. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) says it will release the full list of companies and people in the Panama Paper files in early May.
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."
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
Mauricio Macri, President of Argentina[1]
Salman, King of Saudi Arabia[1]
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates and Emir of Abu Dhabi[1]
Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine[1]
- Former heads of state
Heads of government
Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland (on leave from April 7, 2016)[1][2]
- Former heads of government
Bidzina Ivanishvili, former Prime Minister of Georgia[1]
Ayad Allawi, former Acting Prime Minister of Iraq[1]
Ali Abu al-Ragheb, former Prime Minister of Jordan[1]
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, former Prime Minister of Qatar[1]
Pavlo Lazarenko, former Prime Minister of Ukraine[1]
Ion Sturza, former Prime Minister of Moldova[3][4][5][6]
Other government officials[edit]
- Abdeslam Bouchouareb, Minister of Industry and Mines[1]
- Jordi Cinca, Minister of Finance[7]
- José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, Minister of Petroleum[1]
- Néstor Grindetti, Mayor of Lanús[1]
- Joaquim Barbosa, former President of the Supreme Federal Court[8]
- Eduardo Cunha, President of the Chamber of Deputies[9]
- Edison Lobão, Member of the Senate and former Minister of Mines and Energy[9]
- João Lyra, Member of the Chamber of Deputies[1]
- Ang Vong Vathana, Minister of Justice[10]
- Alfredo Ovalle Rodríguez, intelligence agency associate[1]
- Jaynet Kabila, Member of the National Assembly[11]
- Bruno Itoua, Minister of Scientific Research and Technical Innovation and former Chairman of the SNPC[1]
- Juan José Daboub, former Minister of Finance and Chief of Staff to the President[12]
- Galo Chiriboga, current Attorney General[1]
- Pedro Delgado, cousin of President of Ecuador Rafael Correa, and former Governor of the Central Bank[1]
- Patrick Balkany, Member of the National Assembly and Mayor of Levallois-Perret and his wife Isabelle[13]
- Jérôme Cahuzac, former Minister of the Budget[1]
- Stavros Papastavrou, advisor of former Prime Ministers Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras[1]
- Zsolt Horváth, former Member of the National Assembly[14]
- Bjarni Benediktsson, Minister of Finance[1]
- Júlíus Vífill Ingvarsson, Member of the Reykjavík City Council (resigned April 5, 2016)[15]
- Ólöf Nordal, Minister of the Interior[16]
- Anurag Kejriwal, former President of the Lok Satta Party Delhi Branch[1]
- Anil Vasudev Salgaocar, mining baron and former Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly[17]
- Yoav Galant, Minister of Construction[18]
- Dov Weissglass, former advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon[19][20]
- Konrad Mizzi, Minister of Energy and Health.[1] Mizzi is the the only serving EU minister featured in the leaks.[21]
- Keith Schembri, Prime Minister's Chief of Staff[22]
- Kim Chol Sam, Daedong Credit Bank representative based in Dalian and presumed high official[23][24][25]
- Mohammad Mustafa, former Minister of National Economy[1]
- Riccardo Francolini, former chairman of the state-owned Savings Bank[1]
- César Almeyda, Director of the National Intelligence Service[1]
- Paweł Piskorski, former Mayor of Warsaw[1]
- Emmanuel Ndahiro, brigadier general and former chief of the intelligence agency[26]
- Muhammad bin Nayef, Crown Prince and Minister of the Interior of Saudi Arabia[27]
- Frank Belfrage, former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs[28]
- Michael Ashcroft, retired member of the House of Lords[29]
- Tony Baldry, former Member of the House of Commons[30]
- Michael Mates, former Member of the House of Commons[31]
- Pamela Sharples, Member of the House of Lords[32]
- Victor Cruz Weffer, former commander-in-chief of the army[33]
- Jesús Villanueva, former Director of PDVSA[34]
- Adrián José Velásquez Figueroa, former security chief of Miraflores Presidential Palace[35]
- Atan Shansonga, former Ambassador to the United States[36]
Relatives and associates of government officials[edit]
- Daniel Muñoz, aide to former presidents Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and Néstor Kirchner[1]
- Alessandra Minnicelli, wife of former Minister of Planning and Public Investment Julio de Vido[37]
- Mehriban Aliyeva, Leyla Aliyeva, Arzu Aliyeva, Heydar Aliyev and Sevil Aliyeva, family of President Ilham Aliyev[1]
- Idalécio de Castro Rodrigues de Oliveira, potential briber of the President of the Chamber of Deputies Eduardo Cunha and a Portuguese entrepeneur[1]
- Anthony Merchant, husband of Senator Pana Merchant[38]
- Deng Jiagui, brother-in-law of President and General Secretary Xi Jinping[1][39]
- Patrick Henri Devillers, French business associate of Gu Kailai, convicted murderer and wife of former Minister of Commerce and Member of the Politburo Bo Xilai[1]
- Hu Dehua, son of former General Secretary Hu Yaobang[40]
- Jasmine Li, granddaughter of former standing Member of the Politburo Jia Qinglin[1]
- Li Xiaolin, daughter of former Premier Li Peng[1]
- Javier Molina Bonilla, former advisor to Director of the National Intelligence Secretariat Rommy Vallejo[1]
- Alaa Mubarak, son of former President Hosni Mubarak[1]
- Frédéric Chatillon, business associate of Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front[41]
- Arnaud Claude, former law partner of former President Nicolas Sarkozy[42]
- Nicolas Crochet, accounting associate of Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Front[41]
- Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the National Front and father of current party leader Marine Le Pen[43]
- John Addo Kufuor, son of former President John Kufuor[1]
- Mamadie Touré, widow of former President Lansana Conté[1]
- César Rosenthal, son of former Vice President Jaime Rosenthal[1]
- Frank Flannery, political consultant and Fine Gael's former Director of Organisations and Strategy[44]
- Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia, convicted of bribery alongside former Senator Marcello Dell'Utri[1]
- Jehangir Soli Sorabjee, son of former Attorney General Soli Sorabjee and a honorary consultant physician at Bombay Hospital[17]
- Harish Salve, former Solicitor General and son of N. K. P. Salve, veteran Indian National Congress politician[17]
- Rajendra Patil, son-in-law of Karnataka minister Shamanuru Shivashankarappa and businesperson[17]
- Jean-Claude N'Da Ametchi, associate of former President Laurent Gbagbo[1]
- Nurali Aliyev, grandson of President Nursultan Nazarbayev[1]
- Mohd Nazifuddin Najib, son of Prime Minister Najib Razak, and their cousin[1]
- Juan Armando Hinojosa, "favourite contractor" of President Enrique Peña Nieto[1]
- Mounir Majidi, personal secretary of King Mohammed VI[1]
- Maryam Nawaz, Hasan Nawaz Sharif and Hussain Nawaz Sharif, children of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif[1]
- Sergei Roldugin, Arkady Rotenberg and Boris Rotenberg, friends of President Vladimir Putin[1]
- Mamadou Pouye, friend of Karim Wade, himself the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade[45]
- Khulubuse Zuma, nephew of President Jacob Zuma[46]
- Ro Jae-Hun, son of former President Roh Tae-woo[47]
- Pilar de Borbón, sister of former King Juan Carlos I, as well as her husband Luis Gómez-Acebo and their son Bruno Gómez-Acebo[48][49]
- Micaela Domecq Solís-Beaumont, wife of Miguel Arias Cañete, European Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy and former Spanish Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment[50]
- Oleguer Pujol, son of Jordi Pujol i Soley, former President of Catalonia[51]
- Rami and Hafez Makhlouf, cousins of President Bashar al-Assad[1]
- Ian Cameron, father of Prime Minister David Cameron[52]
- Sarah Ferguson, former wife of Prince Andrew[53]
- David Sharples, son of Baroness Pamela Sharples[54]
- Mark Thatcher, son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher[55]
- Kojo Annan, son of former Secretary-General Kofi Annan[1]
Sports personalities[edit]
Association football[edit]
- Persons associated with the world governing body FIFA
- Juan Pedro Damiani, Uruguayan member of the FIFA Ethics Committee[56] Resigned on 6 April 2016.[57]
- Eugenio Figueredo, Uruguayan-American former president of CONMEBOL and vice president and member of the ethics committee of FIFA;[58]
- Gianni Infantino, Swiss-Italian President of FIFA[59]
- Hugo and Mariano Jinkis, Argentine businessmen also implicated in the 2015 FIFA corruption case[56]
- Michel Platini, French former president of UEFA[56]
- Jérôme Valcke, French former secretary general of FIFA[56]
- Football clubs and players
- The following individuals had accounts created by Real Sociedad and its president(s) — principally Iñaki Otegui — under the leadership of José Luis Astiazarán, Miguel Fuentes, María de la Peña, Juan Larzábal, and Iñaki Badiola:[60]
- Andy Cole, English former footballer[55]
- Gabriel Heinze, Argentine former footballer, account (with his mother) during Manchester United years[60]
- Waldemar Kita, Franco-Polish business man, president of Football Club de Nantes[61][62]
- Robert Louis-Dreyfus, French business man, owner of Olympique de Marseille[62]
- Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer for Barcelona[58]
- Brian Steen Nielsen, Danish former footballer and sports director of Aarhus Gymnastikforening[63]
- Marc Rieper, Danish retired footballer[63]
- Dmitri Rybolovlev, Russian business man, president of AS Monaco[62]
- Clarence Seedorf, Dutch former footballer[64]
- Leonardo Ulloa, Argentine footballer[60]
- Willian Borges da Silva, Brazilian footballer for Chelsea[55]
- Iván Zamorano, Chilean retired footballer, account during Real Madrid years[60]
Motorsports[edit]
- Àlex Crivillé, Spanish former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer[51]
- Nico Rosberg, German Formula 1 driver at Mercedes AMG Petronas[65]
- Jarno Trulli, Italian former Formula 1 driver[66]
Other sports[edit]
- Tomas Berdych, Czech professional tennis player on the ATP World Tour, currently ranked world number seven[67]
- Nick Faldo, English professional golfer on the PGA European Tour, now mainly an on-air golf analyst[68]
- Ion Țiriac, retired Romanian professional tennis player and businessman[69]
Entertainment personalities[edit]
- Agustín Almodóvar, Spanish film producer and younger brother of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar[70]
- Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish film director, screenwriter, producer and former actor[70]
- Imanol Arias, Spanish actor[71]
- Amitabh Bachchan, Indian actor[72]
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Indian actress and former Miss World.[72]
- Jackie Chan, Chinese actor[73][74]
- Simon Cowell, English reality television judge, entrepreneur, philanthropist, film, record, and television producer[53]
- Franco Dragone, Italian-Belgian theatre director, known for his work for Cirque du Soleil[75]
- David Geffen, American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, philanthropist and co-founder of DreamWorks[76]
- Stanley Kubrick, American award-winning filmmaker[53]
- Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature[77]
- Nicky Wu, Taiwanese actor[78]
Business people[edit]
- Yitzhak Abuhatzeira, son of millionaire Rabbi David Abuhatzeira and great-grandson of Baba Sali and head of Callery Resources[18]
- Vinod Adani, Indian businessman, elder brother of Gautam Adani, Adani Group[72]
- Fabricio Altamirano, Salvadorian businessman, owner of El Diario de Hoy[12]
- Main shareholders of Anheuser-Busch InBev[79]
- Bank Leumi's representatives and board members[19][20]
- Shishir Bajoria, Indian promoter of SK Bajoria Group, which has steel refractory units[17]
- Hollman Carranza, son of Colombian emerald mogul Víctor Carranza[80]
- Rattan Chadha, Indian-born Dutch businessman, founder of Mexx clothing[64]
- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Italian businessman and politician[81][82]
- Jose Roberto Dutriz-Fogelbach, Salvadorian businessman, owner of La Prensa Gràfica[12]
- Jacob Engel, Israeli businessman active in the African mining industry[19][20]
- Garware family, family of Abasaheb Garware, was a pioneering industrialist from Maharashtra state in India[17]
- Dan Gertler, Israeli billionaire businessman and the founder and President of the DGI (Dan Gertler International) Group of Companies[18]
- Anthony Gumbiner, British businessman, chairman of Hallman Group[83]
- Solomon Humes, Bahamian bishop of a the Church of God of Prophecy[84]
- Onkar Kanwar, Indian chairman & MD of Apollo Tyres[17]
- Lev Avnerovich Leviev, Israeli businessman, philanthropist, investor and owner of Lexinter International Inc., which holds shares in Vauxhall Securities Inc.[18]
- Mohan Lal Lohia, Indian, father of Sri Prakash Lohia, founder and chairman of Indorama Corporation[17]
- Soulieman Marouf, British-Syrian businessman[85]
- Bert Meerstadt, board member of ABN-AMRO bank and former head of Dutch Railways[86][87]
- Heather Mills, entrepreneur and environmentalist[53]
- Abdul Rashid Mir, Indian, founder and CEO of Cottage Industries Exposition Limited (CIE) & Tabasum Mir[17]
- David Nahmad, Lebanase retired art dealer. [88]
- Nakash family members[89]
- Idan Ofer, London-based Israeli business magnate and philanthropist, founder of Tanker Pacific[19][20]
- Igor Olenicoff, American billionaire[83]
- Marianna Olszewski, American financial author and life coach[90]
- Zavaray Poonawalla, Indian, brother of billionaire Cyrus S. Poonawalla and heads the managing committee of Royal Western India Turf Club (RWITC)[17]
- 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[19][20]
- K P Singh, Indian businessman[72]
- Mallika Srinivasan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TAFE - Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited and Indira Sivasailam[17]
- Beny Steinmetz, Israeli businessman, with a portfolio in diamond-mining, engineering and real estate, and his business partner and brother Daniel Steinmetz[18]
- Frank Timiș, Romanian-born Australian businessman[91]
- Anders Wall, Swedish financier and former chairman of Volvo[92]
- Jacob Weinroth, an Israeli attorney, founder partner of Dr. J. Weinroth & Co. Law Office and owner and director of Sapir Holdings[19][20]
- Benjamin Wey, Chinese American financier and president of New York Global Group[83]
Non-governmental organisations[edit]
- Gonzalo Delaveau, head of global corruption watchdog Transparency International’s Chile branch (resigned 4 April 2016)[93]
Organized crime[edit]
- Marllory Chacón Rossell, Guatemalan drug trafficker[94][95]
- Jorge Milton Cifuentes-Villa, Colombian drug trafficker, head of the Cifuentes-Villa Drug Trafficking Organization and partner of Chapo Guzmán[94]
- Rafael Caro Quintero, Mexican drug trafficker and one of the founders of the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel[94]
- Iqbal Mirchi, right-hand man of India's most wanted criminal, Dawood Ibrahim[96]
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