Summary Trump has appeared 3,540 times in the ICIJ database.
WASHINGTON (Web Desk) - Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’ name has also appeared in the Panama Papers leak released online on Monday.
According to Huffigton Post, Trump has appeared 3,540 times in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) database and have companies registered on his name in British Virgin Island, Panama and Samova.
However, over the years Trump has sold his name and reputation to investors, meaning the appearance of his name does not necessarily link him to offshore accounts.
The public gained its first access to the Panama Papers records of over 200,000 secret offshore companies Monday when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists put a searchable database up online.
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The database, built on just a portion of the 11.5 million documents leaked from the Panama law firm Mossack Fonseca, reveals more than 360,000 names of individuals and companies behind the anonymous shell firms, the ICIJ said.
It reveals the full extent to which the world s wealthy, alongside criminals, creates such nominee companies to stash and transfer assets out of sight of the law and tax officials.
Reports already published in April based on the explosive dossier linked some of the world s most powerful leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and others to unreported offshore companies.
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Iceland’s Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, and Spain’s industry minister Jose Manuel Soria, were forced to resign when they were tied to shell companies.
Until now access to the total cache of documents, originally provided by a mysterious "John Doe", was restricted to the ICIJ and a select group of international media.
