Panama Papers

The Panama Papers (Spanish: Papeles de Panamá) are 11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial and attorney–client information for more than 214,488 offshore entities.[1][2][3] The documents, some dating back to the 1970s,[4] were created by, and taken from, Panamanian law firm and corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca,[5] and were leaked in April 2016.[6] The documents contain personal financial information about wealthy individuals and public officials that had previously been kept private.[7] While offshore business entities are legal (see Offshore Magic Circle), reporters found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions.[8]... On May 27, 2015, the US Department of Justice indicted a number of companies and individuals for conspiracy, corruption and racketeering in connection with bribes and kickbacks paid to obtain media and marketing rights for FIFA tournaments. Some immediately entered guilty pleas... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers

At least 2,400 US-based clients were found in the papers; while many of their transactions were legal, Mossack Fonseca offered advice to many of its US clients on how to evade US tax and financial disclosure laws.[29] On 7 February 2020, federal prosecutors announced that they will obtain their first conviction in relation to the disclosures.[30] On 18 February 2020, Harald Joachim von der Goltz, an 82 year old former businessman and former U.S. resident who was a client for Mossack Fonseca, pleaded guilty to nine counts, including charges of conspiracy to evade taxes and commit money laundering and wire fraud. He is the first to plead guilty in the U.S. in connection to the Panama Papers leak.[31] On February 28, 2020, a Massachusetts accountant, Richard Gaffey, became the second person to plead guilty to charges related to the Panama Papers... The names of a few Americans are however mentioned: Thousands of mentions of Donald Trump. Several "Trump" companies mentioned in the Panama Papers have completely different principals, such as "a young woman whose LinkedIn profile describes her as merchandising supervisor at a small clothing retailer" in Palembang, Indonesia.[53] The "Trump Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower Panama" mentioned in the papers "is not [now] owned, developed or sold by Donald J. Trump, the Trump Organization or any of their principals or affiliates", according to the resort website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers_(North_America)#United_States

To tame the 2.6 terabytes of Panama Papers data, the ICIJ extracted the document metadata using Apache Solr and Tika, then connected all the information together in a Neo4j graph database, accessed by the Linkurious data visualization tool. Alongside this, its member journalists used the OXWALL open source social platform to share their findings, tips, leads – and threats – relating to the investigation.