| Private financial records shared with The Washington Post and media partners in more than 100 countries and territories expose vast reaches of the offshore system used to hide billions of dollars from tax collectors, creditors, criminal investigators and — in cases involving public officials — citizens around the world. The confidential trove is the largest of its kind and was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The Post's coverage begins today with investigations of the hidden assets of Jordan's King Abdullah and a Monte Carlo luxury apartment owned by a woman linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin. | 
