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Panama Papers: Details of over 200,000 offshore accounts released online

The data reveals more than 360,000 names of people and companies behind the secret offshore structure.

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The data reveals more than 360,000 names of people and companies behind the secret offshore structure.
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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published on Monday a searchable database that contains details of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions.

The Panama Papers investigation data is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and people associated with them.

The information has been published the ICIJ in public interest.


The data reveals more than 360,000 names of people and companies behind the secret offshore structure that includes 1,406 Indian officers, 22 offshore entities and 42 intermediaries.

Reports already published in April based on the explosive dossier linked some of the world's most powerful leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister David Cameron and others to unreported offshore companies.

This data is a trove of more than 11.5 million leaked files from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca that is one of the world's top creators of hard-to-trace companies, trusts and foundations.

More than 370 reporters in nearly 80 countries probed the files for a year. Their investigations uncovered the secret offshore holdings of 12 world leaders, more than 128 other politicians and scores of fraudsters, drug traffickers and other criminals whose companies had been blacklisted in the US and elsewhere.

The searchable database published by ICIJ allows users to explore the networks of companies and people that used – and sometimes abused – the secrecy of offshore locales with the help of Mossack Fonseca and other intermediaries. The leaked data covers nearly 40 years, from 1977 through the end of 2015. One can also download the full database here.

ICIJ said it was not making available raw records online, nor was it putting all the information from the records out, in part to prevent access to some personal data and bank account details of those mentioned.

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