Nigeria, April 3 -- Ten years ago, precisely on 3 April 2016, the world's largest network of journalists began running a series of reports on various media platforms around the world, exposing assets of powerful and influential people deliberately designed to stay hidden. What they uncovered became the Panama Papers.

The Panama Papers series was a sweeping, landmark investigation that exposed the secretive world of finance and exposed how the rich and powerful use offshore structures to shield wealth and evade scrutiny.

The global fallout was immediate and consequential. The investigation triggered tax reforms across multiple jurisdictions, enabled the recovery of more than $1.36 billion in tax revenues worldwide, and produced a sharp d...