OPINION

Panama Papers blame-game hides the real issue

News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 18/04/2016

» Last week, a respected Russia scholar in the US speculated that the Kremlin might be behind the so-called Panama Papers, the big dump of data about offshore accounts that has implicated several countries' officials in shady dealings. And on Thursday, President Vladimir Putin of Russia blamed the US for the leak.