Coming Soon: ICIJ to release Panama Papers offshore companies data | Center for Public Integrity

29.4.16

Coming Soon: ICIJ to release Panama Papers offshore companies data | Center for Public Integrity - ICIJ won’t release personal data en masse; the database will not include records of bank accounts and financial transactions, emails and other correspondence, passports and telephone numbers. The selected and limited information is being published in the public interest …Meanwhile ICIJ, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung which received the leak and its media partners, including several new outlets in countries where ICIJ has not yet been able to report, will continue to investigate and publish stories in the weeks and months to come.

The Panama Papers investigation revealed the secret offshore dealings of world leaders and other politicians as well as criminals and celebrities. It exposed the role of big banks in facilitating secrecy and tax evasion and avoidance. And it showed how companies and individuals blacklisted in the U.S. and elsewhere for their links to terrorism, drug trafficking and other crimes were able to do business through offshore jurisdictions.