president anastasiades said our allegations were totally unfounded.law firm because he had transferred the shares to his daughters since becoming president in 2013. the law firm told us that it had never concealed the true identity of a beneficial owner and that it had evidence proving the opposite of what we are claiming. cyprus demonstrates how hard it is to stop offshore secrecy, when even a company founded by a president was willing to break the rules. i think what we are seeing for the first time ever is the size of the involvement of the political elite, the global political elite, in the offshore world, and the consequences of that involvement. the documents allow us to see how some world leaders go about hiding their fortunes. and how the offshore world help them do it. piece together the information in the files and you get a glimpse into how offshore companies can be used to hide wealth. the files suggest that president putin used this place, the glamorous tax haven of monaco, to hide some of his assets. the first clue is a swanky flat in th