>The sad truth is that even though it's been exposed, the scheme is too complex for most people to grasp. As the paper's abstract says: "In recent history, the

>The sad truth is that even though it's been exposed, the scheme is too complex for most people to grasp. As the paper's abstract says: "In recent history, the Panama Papers have comprised one of the largest and most influential leaks detailing information on offshore entities, company officers and financial (and legal) intermediaries, and has led to a global exposé of corruption and tax evasion. A systematic analysis of this information can provide valuable insights into the structure and properties of these entities and the relations between them. Network science can be applied as a scientific framework for understanding the structure of such relational, heterogeneous datasets at scale. In this article, we use an existing, relational version of the Panama Papers to selectively construct various networks, and then study the properties of the underlying system using well-defined analytical methods from network science, including degree properties, country assortativity analyses, connectivity and single-point network metrics like transitivity and density." This is an attempt to make some sense out of this using the tools of Network Science[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_science