Q&A: Your essential guide to the #panamapapers

More than 11 million documents have been passed to 107 media organisations across the globe which have shed further light on the tax affairs of the rich and powerful. Here's your essential guide.

Question. What information has been released?

Answer: Emails, pdf files and other records from the internal database of Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm. They are said to cover a period from the 1970s to the spring of 2016.