BERLIN — It started with an email in early 2015: "Hello, this is John Doe. Interested in data?""We are very interested," replied a journalist in Munich.
The exchange resulted in internal documents from Mossack Fonseca — a Panama law firm that creates anonymous offshore companies around the world — being sent to staff at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, a large German daily. The newspaper had been involved in tax-haven investigations before.
