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How to mine a big leak -

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Mar Cabra (@cabralens)Data Journalism Manager

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)

www.icij.org - @ICIJorg

#offshoreleaksApril 2013

China Leaks January 2014

China Leaks January 2014

Where do the data come from?

At the end of 2011…

• 260 Gb hard drive

• 4 databases

• 2,5 millon files (emails, PDFs, photos…) – non-structured data!

Methodology

Samarbeide

112 journalists58 countries

Working togetherDiving into a secret

world

FudForum

The stories

• More than 100,000 entities• 10 offshore jurisdictions• More than 50 stories in ICIJ’s website• +25,000 mentions in the press worldwide

http://www.icij.org/blog/2013/04/highlights-offshore-leaks-so-far

Key findings Government officials and the mega-rich have

embraced the use of covert companies and bank accounts to own mansions, yachts, art masterpieces and other assets, gaining tax advantages and anonymity not available to average people.

The aggressive role of big banks as enablers (UBS, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank…)

Authorities are blind on the issue (Greek authorities only knew about 4 of the 107 entities)

A black hole for fraud (out of 4,000 US names, at least 30 are accused of fraud)

Will you do theNorway story?

(please! There are at least 30

names!)

The stories so far

Impact (I)We want the data!

Impact (II)• Hollande asked for “eradication” of tax havens

• Tax agencies from several countries (Israel, Australia, Philippines, South Korea) have started investigations

• Public debate (G20, EU Council, G8)

• Legislative changes (Colombia, OECD, Denmark)

• Resignations (Mongolia, Austria)

http://www.icij.org/blog/2013/04/release-offshore-records-draws-worldwide-response

Gunter Sachs

1 graphic, 6 languages,10 publications

http://offshoreleaks.icij.org

Any questions?

Let’s use the data:

http://offshoreleaks.icij.org

Download

Fuzzy Lookup Add-In for Excel

OFAC list:

http://bit.ly/OFAC_ICIJ

ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database:

http://offshoreleaks.icij.org/about/download

1- Look at the names from your country

The offshore way

Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza

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Read everything

“Watermill at Gennep” by Vincent Van Gogh

Do the “regular” reporting!

Search public documents

Court case Bermuda

2- Massive matches(use Fuzzy Lookup or other)

I EXCEL

Resources• Getting the most of the Offshore Leaks Data:

http://www.icij.org/blog/2014/03/getting-most-out-offshore-leaks-data

• Investigative Dashboard http://www.investigativedashboard.org/

• Open Corporates http://opencorporates.com/• Offshore Alert http://www.offshorealert.com• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database

http://offshoreleaks.icij.org/• BVI Financial Services Commission

http://www.bvifsc.vg/en-gb/divisions/registryofcorporateaffairs.aspx

• Hong Kong Company Registry http://www.cr.gov.hk/en/home/

Thanks!

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