Svenske finansmannen i läckan: ”En helt ren affär”

John Roger Holtback, tidigare Eliasson, född 16 februari 1945 i Göteborg, är en svensk industri-, bank- och finansman. Holtback blev civilekonom vid Handelshögskolan i Göteborg 1968 och var därefter anställd som kanslisekreterare vid Civildepartementet 1968-69. Han blev chef för ekonomi och administration vid Volvo BM 1969-73, chef för koncernstab Ekonomiska planer och kontroll AB Volvo 1973-75, VD för Volvo BM Braåsverken 1975-78, direktör och chef för division inköp och material för Volvo Personvagnar 1978-82, vice verkställande direktör där 1983 samt VD för Volvo Personvagnar och medlem av Volvos koncernledning 1984-90. Holtback var vice VD vid AB Volvo 1990-91 och medlem av koncernledningen. Holtback är ordförande i bland annat vårdbolaget Capio, säkerhetsföretaget Gunnebo, verkstadsbolaget Finnveden och Svenska Mässan. Tidigare har han varit regionchef för SEB i Göteborg 1990-93 och ordförande i samma bank 1991-93 samt VD för investeringsbolaget Bure 1993-2001.

The Panama Papers are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. The leaked documents were created by Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca; some dated back to the 1970s. The leaked documents illustrate how wealthy individuals, including public officials, are able to keep personal financial information private. While the use of offshore business entities is often not illegal, reporters found that some of the shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions. "John Doe", who leaked the documents to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), remains anonymous, even to journalists on the investigation. "My life is in danger", he told them. In a May 6 statement, John Doe cited income inequality, and said he leaked the documents "simply because I understood enough about their contents to realise the scale of the injustices they described". He added that he has never worked for any government or intelligence agency and expressed willingness to help prosecutors. After SZ verified that it did come from the Panama Papers source, ICIJ posted the full written statement on its website. Because of the number of documents, SZ asked the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for help. Journalists from 107 media organizations in 80 countries analyzed documents detailing the operations of the law firm. After more than a year of analysis, the first news stories were published on April 3, 2016, along with 149 of the documents themselves. The project represents an important milestone in the use of data journalism software tools and mobile collaboration. The documents were quickly dubbed the Panama Papers. The Panamanian government strongly objects to the name; so do other entities in Panama and elsewhere. Some media outlets covering the story have used the name "Mossack Fonseca papers."