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The papers, which have previously revealed startling and completely unexpected allegations of money laundering and tax avoidance against public figures such as Vladimir Putin, President al-Assad of Syria, Fifa officials and Conservative party fundraisers, were shown to a visibly stunned audience at a press conference earlier today.
Professor Ursula Majors from the National Institute of Bear Behaviour stammered, "I had absolutely no suspicion about this.
"We knew that bears lived in the woods, slept in the woods, ate in the woods, and urinated in the woods.
"We knew that they gave birth in the woods and died in the woods.
"But we had no idea whatsoever that bears shit in the woods."
Professor Majors continued: "Even once when I was on a six month field trip in the woods, and found that I had trodden in bear excrement whilst nearby a male grizzly wiped his posterior with a roll of Andrex, complaining about a curry he'd had the night before - even then I had no idea that it would one day be revealed that bears shit in the woods.
"This changes everything."
Journalists have warned people to be ready for more startling and completely unexpected revelations from the Panama Papers later today, this time concerning the Pope's religious beliefs.
Comment: For obvious reasons, it's too much to expect most Westerners to realize that Putin and al-Assad are actually decent leaders.
As we can see though, they are not at all surprised to hear confirmation that Western leaders are utterly corrupt.