Database highlights Nev.’s connection to Panama Papers
By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun
One Nevada company was mentioned in a federal indictment of FIFA officials. At least 10 Nevada-registered firms were owned by one of Thailand’s wealthiest families, and dozens more have ties to a corruption probe in Brazil, a USA Today analysis revealed last month.
They represent a sliver of the more than 1,000 companies created by M.F. Corporate Services, a Nevada entity that forms companies here and is linked to the Panamanian firm at the center of the largest data leak in history. That firm, Mossack Fonseca, reemerged in the news Monday when a group of investigative journalists with access to the documents, dubbed the Panama Papers, published a database of 200,000 offshore entities.
The database published on Monday showed 1,260 entities active in Nevada from the Panama Papers and a previous leak, though only a portion of those companies remain active.