Calling it now:

The rich and powerful the world over have been hiding their money in off-shore accounts.

The smarter ones have been using complicated corporate shell accounts.

The hacker hero responsible for this leak will be demonised by the millionaire and billionaire owned mainstream media.

If tracked down he/she/they will face years of torment, extradition hearings and cruel and unusual punishment.

After all they have done the most dangerous thing of all – expose the lies, crimes, and hypocrisy of the rich and powerful.

No rich or powerful people will ever face a trial, or even a well-funded competent investigation over this.

Some brave journalists will investigate and uncover that this is just the tip of a giant corrupt iceberg.

Then some of those journalists will die in plausible, yet statistically unlikely ways.

Others will be blown to pieces by car bombs, like Daphne Caruana Galizia.

www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/malta-car-bomb-kills-panama-papers-journalist

The media will report on it for a few weeks but page views will drop steadily so they will drop the articles.

There will be the usual outrage on social media, politicians may even make some aware-sounding soundbites.

Then it will all be forgotten, until the next leak.