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UEFA has been raided by Swiss police and has handed over evidence of a Champions League television rights contract with an offshore marketing agency implicated in the FIFA bribery scandal.
The Swiss attorney general's office said it requested raids on the European soccer body and "another enterprise" for suspected criminal mismanagement and misappropriation linked to dealings with Cross Trading, an offshore registered agency.
Cross Trading is owned by two men indicted last year by American federal prosecutors who are working with Swiss counterparts to investigate suspected corruption in international soccer.
The 2006 contract, co-signed by current FIFA President Gianni Infantino when he was UEFA legal director, was leaked from the database of Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.
Panama's Foreign Relations Ministry has sent a letter to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development saying any suggestion that the country harbors shady financial dealings is categorically untrue.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, which says it's one of the outlets given access to the leaked documents, says law firm Mossack Fonseca incorporated companies named Goldfinger, SkyFall, GoldenEye and Moonraker and was asked to set up a firm called Octopussy.
Spanish media are reporting that movie director Pedro Almodovar has canceled publicity events for his new movie "Julieta" following intense interest in the offshore company he owned with his brother years ago.
The Europa Press news agency says Almodovar canceled an appearance at a photo shoot and interviews ahead of the movie's premiere in Madrid on Wednesday night.
Authorities in the British Virgin Islands say the release of confidential files from a law firm in Panama have prompted them to investigate whether there have been any breaches of financial regulations in the Caribbean territory.
The BVI says it has "rigorous" regulatory oversight of its financial sector and adheres to international standards.
A Spanish news website says a document in the massive leak of material from a Panamanian law firm shows that Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and his ex-wife were listed as shareholders in an offshore British Virgin Islands company for about a month in 2010.
German public broadcaster NDR has reported that Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca manages a company called Ambitious Group Ltd which has a contract with Mercedes for Rosberg's "driver services."
France's far-right National Front party is filing law suits for defamation against media who imply that it or leader Marine Le Pen — who plans to run in the 2017 presidential race — may be implicated in the Panama papers scandal.
Le Pen's anti-immigration National Front portrays globalization as one of the enemies to redressing the French economy and preserving the nation's identity, making any innuendo that people linked to the party may allegedly be using foreign shell companies to hide funds a sensitive issue.
India's top Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan has denied any connection to four shipping companies registered in tax havens following the publication of the names of rich and powerful people linked to the leaks, dubbed the Panama Papers.