The Panama law firm at the centre of the huge leak of data on offshore financial accounts reportedly incorporated a string of companies named after James Bond films.

Among the 11 million documents leaked from the firm Mossack Fonseca that specialises in setting up complex offshore corporate structures, are files showing that the firm established companies named after James Bond movies and villains, ABC News reported.

The files include companies named "Goldfinger", "SkyFall", "GoldenEye", "Moonraker", "Spectre" and also "Blofeld", the arch Bond nemesis fond of remote island lairs, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which investigated the files alongside 100 other media outlets, wrote in an article on Wednesday.

The files also include "correspondence from a man named Austin Powers, apparently his real name and not the movie character, and Jack Bauer, a real person whom a Mossack Fonseca employee entered into the firm’s database as a client after the employee “met him at a pub”, the article said.

Jack Bauer was also the character portrayed by actor Kiefer Sutherland in the hit TV series “24”.

The investigations around the Panama Papers began being published on Sunday, and have shone an unusual light on the closed world of offshore corporations. 

The documents are the biggest whistleblower leak in history and, so far, the alleged revelations have appeared to lay bare the financial dealings of former spy chiefs, criminals and officials, including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin and relatives of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The All Nepal Football Association (Anfa) on Wednesday decided to honour the 12th South Asian Games (Sag) gold medal winning Nepali football team with Rs 500,000 each.

Nepal had defeat hosts India 2-1 in the final of the SA Games held in Assam and Guwahati for their first gold in the regional meet in 23 years. Their last gold came during the 1993 edition held in Bangladesh. The executive committee meeting of Anfa on Wednesday also endorsed the decision to honour the Bangabandhu Gold Cup football tournament winners with Rs 500,000 each.
The women’s national team, meanwhile, will be feted with Rs 100,000 for claiming silver in the Games. The
women’s team had lost to India 4-0 in the final. The award ceremony will be held next month, informed the football governing body on Wednesday.
Likewise, the meeting also decided to organise annual U-16 Championship in the memory of Anfa’s Late Acting President Lalit Krishna Shrestha who had died on June 12 at his new house due to electrocution.
Anfa is also set to launch
a pilot project in Mid-Western and Far-Western Regions
by technically and financially helping the District FAs
and clubs to increase
football activities. It has also been decided to start the process of club licensing for
‘A’ Division clubs and potential ‘B’ Division clubs from this year.
The initiation comes after AFC made it mandatory for all the member countries of club licensing. To materialise the plan, AFC officials will be holding a seminar with Nepali clubs on April 18. Meanwhile, Wednesday’s meeting also approved the yearly calendar of the Anfa.

Samjhana Sharma, Megha Chand, Anu Maya Rai and Sunaina Mukhiya entered the women’s singles quarter-finals of the 12th Krishna Mohan Memorial Badminton Championship here at the APF headquarters on Tuesday.

Sharma of Banke dispatched Sima Rajbanshi of Morang 21-15, 21-14, Chand Tribhuvan Army Club (TAC) beat Sita Rai of Sunsari 21-15, 21-19, TAC’s Rai saw off Nita Lamshal of Morang 21-19, 21-17 and Mukhiya received a walkover win from Durga Sharma of Kailali.

In the men’s singles, TAC duo Ratnajit Tamang and Nabin Shrestha and Indra Mahata of APF recorded wins. Tamang beat Sujan Shrestha of Sunari 21-6, 21-9, Shrestha got the better of Irfan Ansari of Banke 21-19, 21-14 and Mahata defeated Deepak Bohara of Nepal Police Club (NPC). Bishnu Katuwal of NPC, Dipesh Dhami of TAC, Bikash Shrestha of APF also won their singles matches on Tuesday.

Winners in the U-17 boys category include Chiran Bista of Kanchanpur, Bishal Khadka of Sunsari, Praful Maharjan of TAC, Pranish Singh Thakuri of Jhapa, Sunil Joshi, Jivan Acharya of Khotang, Prince Dahal of NPC and Rukesh Maharjan of TAC.