xiaolin the daughter of the former premier li peng and ms lis husband liu zhiyuan the panama papers leaks showed that ms li and mr liu were the owners of a foundation based in liechtenstein that in turn owned a company in the british virgin islands cofic investments a lawyer for cofic told mossack fonseca that the companys profits came from helping the law firms other clients export heavy machinery from europe to china the consortium reportedms lis name has turned up in each of the three exposs by the consortium on leaked offshore accounts and swiss bank accounts that have been published in the past two years last year she and mr liu were listed as the owners of a swiss bank account that held as much as 25 millionanother relative of a top leader revealed to have offshore accounts is jasmine li zidan the granddaughter of jia qinglin a former member of the politburo standing committee ms lis father li botan was a central figure in a report last year by the new york times on the political ties of the dalian wanda group chairman wang jianlin companies linked to mr li made hundreds of millions of dollars in capital gains from their holdings in wanda property and entertainment enterprisesone of the few mainland news outlets to mention the panama papers was global times a newspaper run by the chinese communist partyin a commentary published on tuesday the newspaper questioned the lack of a named source for the documents and the chinese version of the article suggested that western intelligence agencies could easily slip fake information into such a large trove of recordsthe article accused the western news media of using the leaks for ideological purposes by attacking president vladimir v putin of russia it said that icelands prime minister who is under fire after the leaks disclosed that he and the woman who is now his wife set up a british virgin islands company in 2007 was an insignificant figure by comparisonthe western media has taken control of the interpretation each time there has been such a document dump and washington has demonstrated particular influence in it global times wrote information that is negative to the us can always be minimized while exposure of nonwestern leaders such as putin can get extra spinthe global times article omitted any information about the leaks pertaining to chinese leaders