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Panama Papers affair widens as database goes online
- elcapitan 11y agotldr: This is not a database of the Panama Papers, but of the Offshore Leaks.
- baltcode 11y agoNo really, this is confusing. OP and the person who downvoted this, it's better to explain. There is Offshore Leaks and there is Panama Leaks. Or is there a different offshore leaks, and Panama papers are also called offshore leaks?
- r721 11y agoAs I understood they are combined now: "The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists publishes today a searchable database that strips away the secrecy of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions, from Nevada to Hong Kong and the British Virgin Islands. The data, part of the Panama Papers investigation, is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures. The database also displays information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation." https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-database-release.html https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas...
- phasmantistes 11y agoThe Offshore Secrets (2013) was a specific leak about British offshore holdings in the Virgin Islands. The Panama Papers (2016) is a specific leak about offshore holdings managed by Mossack Fonseca in Panama. This database contains data from the Panama Papers and from what the ICIJ is calling the "Offshore Leaks", which is a conglomeration of the Offshore Secrets and other smaller leaks between then and now.
- r3bl 11y agoIt's a database of both leaks actually.
- dredmorbius 11y agoIncorrect. It's both. From the ICIJ's release: The data, part of the Panama Papers investigation, is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures. The database also displays information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation. https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-database-release.html https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas...
- r721 11y agoOriginal source: https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-database-release.html https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas... Related Washington Post investigation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/panama-papers-include-dozens-of-americans-tied-to-financial-frauds/2016/05/09/d199bfa2-12d3-11e6-81b4-581a5c4c42df_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/panama-papers-...
- qaq 11y agoHopefully this eventually will have an effect on reducing corruption especially in developing countries.
- civilian 11y agoThe thing is that: using offshore tax havens isn't corruption. It's legal. Corruption is when you use your position or influence in the government to help yourself. (Often by helping someone else who then gives you kickbacks somehow.)
- bdavisx 11y ago>The thing is that: using offshore tax havens isn't corruption. It's legal. It may or not be legal, I'm pretty sure a lot of the people in the list are using for Tax Evasion.
- pc86 11y ago> It may or not be legal It is legal - waffling about like it's up for debate doesn't change the fact. It's 100% legal, full stop. > I'm pretty sure a lot of the people in the list are using for Tax Evasion. Based on what evidence, exactly?
- chimeracoder 11y ago> [Using offshore tax havens] may or not be legal, I'm pretty sure a lot of the people in the list are using for Tax Evasion. Nope. The majority of the information contained in the Panama Papers does not pertain to any illegal activity[0] (tax evasion is illegal). And even of the information that provides evidence of illegal activity, most of it is illegal for reasons that have nothing to do with taxation. Some of the information does point to transactions that were otherwise illegal (such as drug cartel money), but that is in the minority of the information leaked. Using offshore tax havens isn't illegal in se. And in fact, most uses of offshore tax havens aren't going to be illegal, because if you're going to do something illegal (tax evasion), why bother to use an offshore tax haven? The whole point of using an offshore tax haven is to to reduce tax liability through legal means[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#Disclosures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#Disclosures [1] Not to be confused with the goal of using hard-to-trace offshore bank accounts to (e.g.) launder drug money or money obtained through bribery, which is illegal but has nothing to do with taxes.
- jedberg 11y ago> The documents have revealed the hidden assets of hundreds of politicians, officials, current and former national leaders, celebrities and sports stars. I feel bad for the celebrities and sports stars. In all likelihood, most of them probably have no idea that their money is in a tax haven. Some of them probably do, but most of them probably outsourced their money management. The politicians I'm thinking probably had an idea of what was going on with their money, but maybe they outsource just as much. I'm just saying a lot of the people in this database are probably just rich people who made a bad (or good depending on your point of view) choice in accountant.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThe ICIJ's release is here: ICIJ releases database revealing thousands of secret offshore companies Searchable database displays more than 300,000 entities from the Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks investigations https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-database-release.html https://panamapapers.icij.org/blog/20160509-offshore-databas...
- code_research 11y agoI never used neo4j - how do I import the csv files? Is there any open source visualization tool for noe4j?
- nicolewhite 11y agoI wrote an import script: https://gist.github.com/nicolewhite/f1980f01dc4342b369a6b3b6950a40c2 https://gist.github.com/nicolewhite/f1980f01dc4342b369a6b3b6...
- JBReefer 11y agoThis is great, thanks!
- code_research 11y agoThank you very much!
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- B1FF_PSUVM 11y agoThe most salient feature is that there is nothing about the really big fish. The ones with really competent lawyers and accountants. The ones that aren't in the papers. So, we get a lot of heat and noise about middling wealthy people who used a second tier firm to bank monies. Because said firm dropped a lot of documents on the floor, perhaps when their arm was accidentally jogged ... It might even send the message that some people outside the right circles, hired help and social climbers, should be careful when aping their betters, because they may find their nuts caught in a vise. (The second most salient feature is how the press is enthusiastic and cooperative about this, when they studiously ignored similar items in the past. Wonderful.)
- ryguyrg 11y agoDefinitely check out this import script by @nicolewhite to import this data into Neo4j (until ICIJ releases it soon!) https://gist.github.com/nicolewhite/f1980f01dc4342b369a6b3b6950a40c2 https://gist.github.com/nicolewhite/f1980f01dc4342b369a6b3b6...