In April 2016, freshly inaugurated Argentine President Mauricio Macri — who had just finished lecturing the nation about transparency and corruption — was summoned before a federal judge after the Panama Papers revealed he had been a director of an undisclosed offshore company, Fleg Trading Ltd, from 1998 to 2009. Macri had neglected to mention this company in his 2007 financial declaration when he became Buenos Aires mayor, or in his 2015 declaration when he became president. His office's response was a masterpiece of non-denial denial: a business group owned by the Macri family had indeed set up the offshore company through Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the epicentre of the leak. Macri appeared before the judge and confirmed the facts. He had, days earlier, expressed 'rage, disenchantment and helplessness' about corruption in Argentina — sentiments apparently so powerful they had blinded him to his own financial declarations. The judge ultimately did not pursue criminal charges, but the formal judicial appearance and Macri's own office's confirmation of the offshore structure constitute a documented official acknowledgement of the undisclosed company.