Health and Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi said last night that the Panama Leaks showed that his version of events, including disclosure, were truthful.

"The Trust and related documents published have been made available to journalists from the very start and the structure was always intended as a family trust for assets and investments.

"Contrary to other hundreds of persons mentioned, these leaks make no reference to any funds held by me. This confirms my version of events from the very beginning; that is that there are no funds and bank accounts held by these structures," he said.

"With regards to reports that there were attempts by the service provider to open a bank account, this was part of the service that was offered to me. Nevertheless, as a state of fact confirmed by the reports, I did not pursue this option and never opened any account either in Dubai, Panama or elsewhere.

"I also notified the establishment of the structure in my draft Ministerial Declaration of Assets submission for 2015.

"Irrespective of all this, I will continue pursuing the tax investigation and an independent audit to further prove what I have been stating consistently from the beginning. The company in Panama will be closed soon after the tax investigation is concluded."

In the documents leaked late yesterday from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, Malta was shown as being one of 21 countries used to cater for its clients.

An interactive map which plots out the countries involved in the leak, drafted by ICIJ partner The Irish Times, claims that as many as 42 clients in Malta had set up a staggering 676 companies through the firm.

The ICIJ has said it would release the full list of companies and people linked to them in early May.

Mossack Fonseca last week warned its clients that company information had been leaked during a major hacking breach of its servers.