TEMPO.CO, Jakarta-The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) will release the data of 200,000 shell companies of Mossack Fonseca’s clients in the Panama Papers, so the people from all around the world will be able to know the data inside the Panama Papers.
Public acces to the Panama Papers will be opened Monday, May 9, 2016, at 2p.m. Washington time, USA on https://offshoreleaks.icij.org, or on Tuesday at 1a.m. Western Indonesian Time.
Deputy Director of The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Marina Walker Guevara, said as many as 200,000 entities from 11.5 million documents of shell companies investigated in Panama Papers will be published. “We’ll only be publishing basic information of a company,” Marina told Tempo.
The basic information mentioned is the name of the company and its share holder. Meanwhile, records of bank accounts, financial transactions, emails, passports, phone numbers, and other individual and coorporate correspondents will not be opened for public.
More than a hundred journalists from 76 countries – including Tempo from Indonesia – joint in Panama Papers investigation project will continue the investigation of the leaked document. “We hope public will help the investigation since some of the access has now to be opened [publicly],” said Tempo Managing Editor of Investigation, Philipus Parera.
To date, Tempo has found at least 899 Indonesians in the Panama Papers. This number will possibly increase since its huge data of 2,6 terrabyte has yet being explored entirely.
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