The secret dealings of the world’s elite has been exposed in a huge document leak known as the Pandora papers.

About 12 million documents exposing the murky financial records of heads of state, business figures and celebrities were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Jounralists (ICIJ) over the past two years, and passed onto 150 media organisations, including the Australian Financial Review.

Senior Reporter with the Australian Financial Review Neil Chenoworth told Liam Bartlett around 400 Australians have been named in the leak.

“There’s a whole range of behaviour, from the mundane to the ordinary, to the questionable, to the outright fraudulent … there’s a whole range,” he said.

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