16th Cleraun Media Conference • Nov. 12, 2016 How ICIJ used Technology to Unravel the Panama Papers Cécile Schilis-Gallego Data Journalist The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) @csgallego | @ICIJorg
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What are the Panama Papers?
Nearly one in 10 of the 31,000 tax haven companies that own British property are linked to Mossack Fonseca
#panamapapers
Iceland, April 4th 2016
How did we do it?
INSIDE THE 2.6 TB
INSIDE THE 2.6 TB
From Offshore Leaks to the Panama Papers
HOW IT USED TO WORK... Jaime Rotondo Russo Monte Esquirnza 26, 4° 28010 Madrid Spain
BACK IN JUNE 2013...
BACK TO THE FUTURE...
MAGIC!! ➢ I click on “dots” and I find stories! ➢ I discover stories thanks to fuzzy searching ➢ Find shortest path
What is available now?
100,000+ companies Portcullis Trustnet and Commonwealth Trust Limited 200,000+ companies Mossack Fonseca
NODES intermediary There may be duplicates entity address Suuuuper dirty data
You can check it at offshoreleaks.icij.org
Cécile Schilis-Gallego cschilisgallego@icij.org | @csgallego
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