Paradise Papers:
Secrets of the Global Elite
A major global collaboration reveals secrets from one of the world’s most prestigious offshore law firms, a specialized trust company and 19 company registries in secrecy jurisdictions.
Paradise Papers:
Secrets of the Global Elite
A major global collaboration reveals secrets from one of the world’s most prestigious offshore law firms, a specialized trust company and 19 company registries in secrecy jurisdictions.
Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/
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About the Paradise Papers Investigation
https://www.icij.org/investigations/paradise-papers/about/
The Paradise Papers is a global investigation into the offshore activities of some of the world’s most powerful people and companies.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and 95 media partners explored 13.4 million leaked files from a combination of offshore service providers and the company registries of some of the world’s most secretive countries.
The files were obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
The Paradise Papers documents include nearly 7 million loan agreements, financial statements, emails, trust deeds and other paperwork from nearly 50 years at Appleby, a leading offshore law firm with offices in Bermuda and beyond.
The documents also include files from a smaller, family-owned trust company, Asiaciti, and from company registries in 19 secrecy jurisdictions. The records range from complex, 100-page corporate transaction sheets and dollar-by-dollar payment ledgers to simple corporate registries of countries, such as Antigua & Barbuda, that do not publicly list names of company shareholders or directors.
As a whole, the Paradise Papers files expose offshore holdings of political leaders and their financiers as well as household-name companies that slash taxes through transactions conducted in secret. Financial deals of billionaires and celebrities are also revealed in the documents.
The Paradise Papers files include far more information about U.S. citizens, residents and companies than previous ICIJ investigations – at least 31,000 of them.
ICIJ collaborated with more than 380 journalists working on six continents in 30 languages. Many team members spent a year using online platforms to communicate and to share documents. Journalists tracked down court records, obtained financial disclosures of politicians in Africa, Europe, and Latin and North America, filed freedom of information requests and conducted hundreds of interviews with tax experts, policymakers and industry insiders.
Special thanks go to the the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting for supporting visual elements of the project, Neo4j and Linkurious for database support.
Reporters:
Nobuo Kurihara (Japan) － 栗原伸夫（共同通信）
Yasu Sawa (Japan) － 澤康臣（共同通信）
Daisuke Kamikubo (Japan) －
Jun Matsuda (Japan) －
Junko Mito (Japan) －
Kanami Hashimoto (Japan) －
Kenya Shimodaira (Japan) －
Kotaro Yoshida (Japan) －
Masa Kado (Japan) －
Sadao Moriuchi (Japan) －
Shunsuke Itabashi (Japan) －
Yoji Kitamura (Japan) －
Hidefumi Nogami (Japan) － 野上英文（朝日新聞）
Hiroshi Ishida (Japan) － 石田博士（朝日新聞）
Keiichi Kitagawa (Japan) － 北川慧一（朝日新聞）
Kenichi Kimura (Japan) － 木村健一（朝日新聞）
Michiko Yoshida (Japan) － 吉田美智子（朝日新聞）
Ryo Takano (Japan) － 高野良馬（朝日新聞）
Toshi Okuyama (Japan) － 奥山俊宏（朝日新聞）