I'm not sure how any of this comes off as bad for Putin. What's the harm in letting the world know that his friends get rich? Combined with what we already know about the effects on life expectancy of being in the opposition, this sends a pretty strong message. "Gold for my friends, lead for my enemies." I see the whole thing as a declaration from Putin to Russia, especially given his protestations. Authoritarian regimes are all about internal social control. Why do we think this has to be about the West?

"I see the whole thing as a declaration from Putin to Russia"

After thinking about it, I think you're right on this. I'm evaluating it as bad international PR when it's probably more internal propaganda.

Amoungst the first big articles published were revelations about putin's freinds 2 billion in offshore money and China's PM's Suster abd Freind having offshore accounts.

But we recieved nothing about america. We have recieved some stuff about the UK but 30k of taxed money is not illegal at all.

Well there was some pretty damning evidence, maybe Putin was hoping western media would blow it up more so he could claim it wasn't him.