--- description: At least 200 American passports were part of the massive leak of confidential documents that has been dubbed the "Panama Papers" title: Americans Included in 'Panama Papers' Leak image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08b066931eca5edc/69888dd1428a9e11decd2149/panama-papers-americans.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Panama Papers](/tag/panama-papers/) ## Panama Papers Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Americans Included in 'Panama Papers' Leak  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 5, 2016 6:01 PM CUT  A view of the Mossack Fonseca Geneva office entrance on April 5 in Geneva, Switzerland. A view of the Mossack Fonseca Geneva office entrance on April 5 in Geneva, Switzerland.Pxl8/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 5, 2016 6:01 PM CUT At least [200 American passports](http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article69943337.html "undefined") were part of the [massive leak of confidential documents](http://time.com/4280302/panama-papers-leak-vladimir-putin-mossack-fonseca/?iid=sr-link1 "undefined") that has been dubbed the “Panama Papers.” The Panama-based law firm at the center of the hack, Mossack Fonseca, helped register offshore companies for Americans now accused or convicted of financial crimes in four separate cases, [McClatchy reports](http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article69943337.html "undefined"). An analysis by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found at least 200 scanned U.S. passports included in the documents. The database showed that nearly 3,100 companies were tied to people in the U.S., and the documents included about 3,500 shareholders of offshore companies with U.S. addresses listed, McClatchy reports. It’s difficult to determine the exact number of Americans involved at this point, in part because some U.S. citizens might have dual citizenship and could have opened accounts under foreign passports. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4282427/panama-papers-leak-americans-mossack-fonseca/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4282427/panama-papers-leak-americans-mossack-fonseca/"},"headline":"Americans Included in 'Panama Papers' Leak","datePublished":"2016-04-05T18:01:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:28:35.236Z","description":"The leaked documents include at least 200 scanned American passports","url":"https://time.com/4282427/panama-papers-leak-americans-mossack-fonseca/","keywords":["Panama Papers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08b066931eca5edc/69888dd1428a9e11decd2149/panama-papers-americans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt08b066931eca5edc/69888dd1428a9e11decd2149/panama-papers-americans.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Mossack Fonseca Currently Embroiled In Panama Papers Tax Scandal","caption":"Mossack Fonseca Currently Embroiled In Panama Papers Tax Scandal","creditText":"Pxl8/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/panama-papers/","name":"Panama Papers"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4282427/panama-papers-leak-americans-mossack-fonseca/","name":"Americans Included in 'Panama Papers' Leak"}}]}] ```