Behind the veil of secrecy: Ten years of the Panama Papers, part 2

Investigative journalist Anuška Delić, then working for Slovenian newspaper Delo, was recruited into the Panama Papers investigation in summer 2015 while pregnant, tasked with searching a 4,000-entry database of Slovenian-connected offshore entities. While pregnant and sleep-deprived, she uncovered that renowned boxer Dejan Zavec had established an offshore company in Anguilla called ABC Agency to obscure his assets through a tax haven before transferring them to another company he controlled—a structure he initially denied but later acknowledged to tax authorities. Meanwhile, Indian Express senior editor Ritu Sarin worked around the clock with two colleagues for eight months, and just days before the agreed publication date, flagged actress Aishwarya Rai's role as director of Amic Partners, an offshore British Virgin Islands company created by law firm Mossack Fonseca, prompting Indian authorities to later open a civil investigation into her finances. Across 370 collaborators in multiple time zones, the journalists raced against the calendar and, in Russia's case, against security concerns that forced ICIJ to compress the standard response timeline to just one week before publication.