The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has released a searchable database of the so-called Panama Papers, which strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 offshore jurisdictions.
The database contains the names of shareholders, beneficiaries, intermediaries and addresses pertaining to over 200,000 offshore entities found in Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca’s internal database.
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ICIJ said it will not release any of the 11.5 million files found in the internal database of Mossack Fonseca. It also did not disclose raw documents or personal information en masse.
The database that went live reveals a total of 360,000 names of people and companies. It contains information about company owners, proxies and intermediaries in secrecy jurisdictions, however it doesn’t disclose bank accounts, email exchanges and financial transactions contained in the documents.
"As the data are from leaked sources and not a standardized registry, there may be some duplication of names," ICIJ said.
The data was originally obtained from an anonymous source by reporters at the German newspaper Süeddeustche Zeitung, who asked ICIJ to organize a global reporting collaboration to analyze the files.
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By GlobalDataMore 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.
"ICIJ is publishing the information in the public interest," the organisation wrote in a blog post.
The database also displays information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation.
