Relations between Ukraine and the European Union should not be linked to the information on offshore companies, which media say belong to various officials around the world, head of the EU delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski has said in Kyiv.

The so-called "Panama Papers" are a global problem rather than the Ukrainian one, Tombinski said, noting that he would not attribute that much to Ukraine, and Ukraine-related decisions.

He also stressed that the situation should not be linked to Ukraine-EU relations.

Tombinski said the "Panama Papers" list various politicians, businessmen, sportsmen, and public actors from many countries in the world. In this respect the EU diplomat said that focusing only on Ukraine-should be avoided.

Tombinski declined to comment on possible consequences of the leakage on Ukraine-EU relations until proper investigations by authorized agencies were completed.

As reported, on April 3 a number of publications in many countries all over the world have simultaneously revealed the results of the investigations which journalists conducted on offshore companies of the world elite.

According to editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Program Drew Sullivan, the information was received from the anonymous source and included hundreds of documents about offshore companies related to representatives of the world elite. Overall, 76 journalists worked on the project and managed to process 11 million documents, which uncovered many accounts in offshore companies of world leaders.

These included politicians from Romania, Hungary, Russian parliament and government among others. The documents are dated from 1977 through the present day and include 11 presidents, 29 wealthy businessmen and representative of criminal circles.

The documents also included Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, former Ukraine's premier Pavlo Lazarenko and Kyiv Post newspaper owner, British businessmen, Mohammad Zahoor.

Russian President Vladimir Putin along with his spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov were also included. Putin's close friend, cello player Sergei Roldugin received special attention. Roldugin reportedly is a beneficiary of a portion of Putin's multibillion offshore empire.

Sullivan said he has the evidence to substantiate his claims, preempting possible comments by those in the spotlight of the Panama papers investigations.