You can now search the Panama Papers – the secret accounts of the global rich – yourself

[villager]

Source: Washington Post


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Over the past month, media organizations around the globe have published articles with information drawn from the papers. The findings have uncovered the offshore holdings of 12 world leaders, more than 128 other politicians, and dozens of tax evaders, drug traffickers, money launderers and other criminals. The revelations have sparked protests, triggered arrests and led to high-profile resignations, including the prime minister of Iceland.

The searchable database below includes nearly 214,000 entities from the Panama Papers spanning 40 years, from 1977 through 2015. Where available, the database reveals the names of the real owners -- called the "beneficial owners" -- of offshore companies, trusts and foundations. This information is usually kept hidden from the public by the anonymity that offshore structures provide.

The database also includes information on the intermediaries, such as banks and law firms, that were typically the point of contact between Mossack Fonseca and the real owners of offshore companies. The data shows registered addresses for companies and the connections between corporate entities, owners and intermediaries, and allows you to filter by country or jurisdiction.

The database also includes information on more than 100,000 additional offshore entities, which were revealed in another leak of offshore documents covered by ICIJ in 2013.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/05/09/you-can-now-search-the-panama-papers-the-secret-accounts-of-the-global-rich-yourself/

[silvershadow]

1. Time for us to break into groups and get busy. I will start. nt

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. How many forms of "Hillary" or "Clinton" are you going to search for?

Make sure you hydrate, bud.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. ...

[silvershadow]

9. All of them. They are global, you know. nt

[iandhr]

2. This article in the Post says...

... the reason for a lack of American names in " The Panama Papers" is "Panama has never been a favorite place for Americans to hide their money. The nation’s reputation for bank fraud and drug smuggling has prompted U.S. citizens to send their money to more stable shores and nations, including the Isle of Man, the Cayman Islands and Switzerland, according to the offshore experts."


One of the founders of the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca & Co., had another explanation for the dearth of U.S. names in the data leak. He and his business partner have never courted U.S. clients.

“My partner is German, and I lived in Europe, and our focus has always been the European and Latin American market,” Ramon Fonseca told the Daily Mail in London on Thursday.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/for-us-tax-cheats-panama-papers-reveals-a-perilous-new-world/2016/04/08/a3467e9a-fd9f-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html?tid=a_inl

Americans seem to commit their unethical financial schemes in different geographical locations.

[99th_Monkey]

3. That sound you hear is billionaires closing these accounts

and moving their money to some OTHER "safe haven"

I'm grateful for this ray of sunlight, but far it may not really "bust"
anyone; except that the perps WILL have to account for their potentially
embarrassing tax-dodging, and that's a plus.

[rhett o rick]

4. Is it me or don't the other side care about these issues? nm

[Blue_Tires]

6. Why the trickle? Why not dump all of it??

[braddy]

7. I checked, unfortunately, my name wasn't in there.