Maria Puente

USA TODAY

Corrections & Clarifications: A previous version of this story misstated the number of world leaders linked to offshore holdings. The documents identify 12 current or former leaders and 60 family members or associates.

At least three well-known entertainers, including Oscar-winning Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar and martial-arts star Jackie Chan, have turned up in the leaked "Panama Papers" documents detailing how rich, famous and powerful people hide their wealth in offshore accounts.

Journalists around the world were busy Monday perusing 11.5 million confidential documents belonging to a law firm in Panama called Mossack Fonesca, which were leaked anonymously on Sunday.

More than 100 media organizations in 78 countries have been analyzing the documents and have found suspected cases of money laundering, sanctions evasion and tax avoidance. So far, the findings have focused on the 140 politicians from more than 50 countries, including 12 current or former world leaders, who have been named in the files.

Panama Papers: Who's accused of what

But a few other boldfaced names have turned up, too. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, a Washington-based network of reporters around the world who encourage anonymous leaks from whistleblowers, named Jackie Chan, "who has at least six companies managed through the law firm," according to the consortium's website.

The Hong Kong-born Chan's representatives in the USA did not immediately return a call for comment.

The Associated Press reported that Almodóvar and his brother/business manager Agustin Almodóvar, also are named, citing Spain's digital publication, El Confidencial.

Pedro Almodóvar won an Oscar in 2003 for his screenplay for Habla con ella.

Late Sunday, Agustin Almodóvar issued a statement to El Confidencial apologizing and citing his lack of experience for a decision to set up an offshore company aimed at expanding the brothers' international film business in the 1990s.

Agustin Almodóvar said he launched the company, Glen Valley Corporation, in the British Virgin Islands in 1991 and closed it in 1994, during the early years of box-office success for the Spanish director, who shared some of his international award nominations with his brother.

Agustin Almodóvar said he shut down the company "because it did not fit with the way we worked."

He apologized for the "damage my brother's public image is suffering, caused only by my lack of experience in the first few years of our family business." He added that he and his brother have met all of their tax obligations.

Worldwide fallout continues over Panama Papers

According to The Spain Report, an English-language website about news from Spain, Almodóvar was one of several high-profile Spanish figures named in the Panama Papers, including a member of Spain's royal family.

A third international entertainer named was Bollywood's Amitabh Bachchan, known as the "Big B" in India. According to the The Indian Express, he was appointed director of at least four shipping companies registered in the British Virgin Islands or in the Bahamas and set up in 1993.