MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors are scheduled to gather in Washington, DC, on April 13-14.
"We’re going to be discussing it. It’s not possible to avoid it. There’s no doubt about that," Gurria told The Japan News (Yomiuri Shimbun) daily Tuesday.
On April 3, Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung published materials it claimed came from the Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm that sells offshore shell companies, exposing the alleged involvement of a number of world leaders and their circles in tax havens schemes.
"Obviously, in this opportunity, the Panama Papers are going to be very much in the limelight," Gurria stressed, adding that he planned to attend the G7 summit in Japan next month.
Mossack Fonseca refused to validate the information contained in the leaks and accused reporters of gaining unauthorized access to its proprietary documents. It warned that using unlawfully-obtained data was a crime that it would not hesitate to punish by legal means.
