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All of the defendants in a money laundering trial that followed the publication of the leaked Panama Papers have been acquitted, a court in Panama City said on Friday, eight years after the scandal first broke. The sensational publication of the so-called Panama Papers in 2016 involved some 11.5 million leaked documents. They came from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and were evaluated by journalists around the world. They found that numerous politicians, athletes and other celebrities had assets in offshore companies. Mossack Fonseca was accused of having set up 215,000 letterbox comp…

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