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OTTAWA — Three years after the explosive Panama Papers leak, Canada’s tax agency has identified nearly 900 Canadian people and corporate entities in the papers and five criminal investigations are underway, but so far no charges have been laid.

The Canada Revenue Agency is providing new details about the status of its probe of information leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca on April 3, 2016, which detailed hundreds of billions of dollars from around the world sheltered in tax havens, at the expense of numerous countries’ treasuries.

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So far, 894 Canadians — including individuals, corporations and trusts — have been identified in the papers and 525 of them have had their files reviewed by the CRA.

Canada’s tax agency says it has completed 116 audits, resulting in over $15 million in federal taxes and penalties assessed.

However, despite these efforts, no criminal charges have been laid in Canada in connection over the material disclosed in the leak.