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<p>Новая страница: «The Offshore Leaks Database spans five dif­fer­ent leaks, and now includes infor­ma­tion on off­shore com­pa­nies, foun­da­tions and trusts from sev­en…»</p> <p><b>Новая страница</b></p><div>The Offshore Leaks Database spans five dif­fer­ent leaks, and now includes infor­ma­tion on off­shore com­pa­nies, foun­da­tions and trusts from sev­en off­shore ser­vice providers from ICIJ’s lat­est inves­ti­ga­tion on the use of tax havens.<br /> <br /> The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists is adding a large vol­ume of new infor­ma­tion to its Offshore Leaks Database — incor­po­rat­ing addi­tion­al data from the Pandora Papers inves­ti­ga­tion about ben­e­fi­cial own­ers, share­hold­ers, direc­tors and oth­er types of offi­cers from more than 9,000 off­shore com­pa­nies, foun­da­tions and trusts.<br /> <br /> The new data comes from sev­en off­shore providers head­quar­tered in Hong Kong, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Switzerland and Dubai.<br /> <br /> They are Asiaciti Trust Asia Limited, CILTrust International, Commence Overseas Limited, IlShin, Overseas Management Company Inc, SFM Corporate Services and Trident Trust Company Limited. Sixteen cur­rent and for­mer coun­try lead­ers were con­nect­ed to off­shore enti­ties that received ser­vices from these providers.<br /> <br /> ICIJ believes that pro­vid­ing this data to all for free helps shine light on the off­shore econ­o­my and, in many cas­es, the dam­age it caus­es. ICIJ is pub­lish­ing this infor­ma­tion in the pub­lic inter­est. There are legit­i­mate uses for off­shore com­pa­nies, trusts and foun­da­tions; the pres­ence of a person’s or a company’s name is not intend­ed to sug­gest or imply that they have engaged in ille­gal or improp­er conduct.<br /> <br /> As with pre­vi­ous sets of leaked data, ICIJ is not pub­lish­ing raw doc­u­ments or per­son­al infor­ma­tion en masse. The Offshore Leaks data­base con­tains a great deal of struc­tured infor­ma­tion about com­pa­ny own­ers, prox­ies and inter­me­di­aries in secre­cy juris­dic­tions, but it doesn’t dis­close pri­vate com­mu­ni­ca­tions, bank accounts infor­ma­tion, pass­ports and oth­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion documents.<br /> <br /> With the addi­tion of this data, the Offshore Leaks data­base now has infor­ma­tion on more than 750,000 names of peo­ple and com­pa­nies behind secret off­shore struc­tures with links to more than 200 coun­tries and ter­ri­to­ries. In all, the Offshore Leaks data­base has data on more than 810,000 off­shore enti­ties from five dif­fer­ent leaks: Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks.<br /> <br /> In October 2021, ICIJ revealed as part of its Pandora Papers inves­ti­ga­tion that it had iden­ti­fied the secret deals and hid­den assets of more than 330 politi­cians and high-lev­el pub­lic offi­cials in more than 90 coun­tries and ter­ri­to­ries, includ­ing 35 cur­rent or for­mer coun­try lead­ers. An ICIJ analy­sis also found more than 45 Russian oli­garchs using off­shore enti­ties. Some of the data explored for these ana­lyzes is now avail­able in the Offshore Leaks Database.<br /> <br /> The Pandora Papers inves­ti­ga­tion, the largest-ever jour­nal­is­tic col­lab­o­ra­tion in his­to­ry, was based on a trove of more than 11.9 mil­lion records from 14 off­shore ser­vice providers that offer ser­vices to wealthy indi­vid­u­als, celebri­ties, crim­i­nals and multi­na­tion­als world­wide. By using shell com­pa­nies, trusts, foun­da­tions and oth­er enti­ties in low- or no-tax juris­dic­tions, pro­vid­ing lit­tle to no trans­paren­cy, the ser­vice providers’ clients often con­cealed their iden­ti­ties from the pub­lic and some­times from regulators.<br /> <br /> The pub­li­ca­tion of the Pandora Papers trig­gered reac­tions around the world: gov­ern­ments promised tougher laws, con­vened pub­lic hear­ings and launched inves­ti­ga­tions. Other pub­lic offi­cials were forced to answer ques­tions about their own finan­cial deal­ings, or the off­shore maneu­vers of peo­ple close to them. Watchdog groups clam­ored for more efforts to end the shad­ow finan­cial sys­tem that cov­ers up tax dodg­ing and mon­ey laundering.<br /> <br /> Russia, the United Kingdom, Argentina, China, Brazil, Ukraine and Venezuela are among the coun­tries with the largest num­ber of ben­e­fi­cial own­ers hid­den behind off­shore enti­ties in the Pandora Papers.<br /> <br /> The com­pa­nies, foun­da­tions and trusts that are part of this new pub­li­ca­tion were reg­is­tered between the 1970s and 2019 in secre­cy juris­dic­tions such as the British Virgin Islands, Panama, Singapore, Seychelles, and Hong Kong, among oth­ers. More than 4,500 enti­ties pub­lished with this new release are reg­is­tered in the British Virgin Islands.<br /> <br /> A sig­nif­i­cant part of the ben­e­fi­cial own­er­ship infor­ma­tion in the Pandora Papers, includ­ing the data being pub­lished today, comes from doc­u­ments that some [https://www.opendemocracy.net/ opendemocracy] of the off­shore ser­vices providers  need­ed to com­pile for the British Virgin Islands’ ben­e­fi­cial own­er­ship reg­is­ter (also known as “BOSS”), which BVI author­i­ties estab­lished in the wake of ICIJ’s pub­li­ca­tion of the Panama Papers in 2016. This ben­e­fi­cial own­er­ship infor­ma­tion which ICIJ has now inte­grat­ed into its Offshore Leaks data­base is espe­cial­ly impor­tant as it is not made avail­able else­where to the pub­lic. Nearly half of all the providers in the Pandora Papers have pro­vid­ed ser­vices as reg­is­tered agents in the British Virgin Islands — estab­lish­ing com­pa­nies for thou­sands of clients look­ing for anonymity.<br /> <br /> The biggest por­tion of the Pandora Papers trove, more than 3.3 mil­lion records, came from a sole off­shore ser­vice provider: Trident Trust. Trident Trust, with offices in the British Virgin Islands and oper­a­tions in more than 20 juris­dic­tions, is one of the world’s largest off­shore ser­vice providers. Questions about who owns Trident Trust went unan­swered last year when ICIJ con­tact­ed the company.<br /> <br /> According to an ICIJ analy­sis, near­ly a third of all politi­cians and pub­lic offi­cials iden­ti­fied in the Pandora Papers data were clients of Trident Trust, the provider with the sec­ond largest num­ber of this type of clients in the data. Among these 97 politi­cians and offi­cials are sev­en cur­rent and for­mer coun­try lead­ers, includ­ing Gabon’s pres­i­dent Ali Bongo, Qatar’s cur­rent ruler Tamim Al Thani and Haiti’s for­mer Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe.<br /> <br /> The Offshore Leaks Database now con­tains records on more than 1,500 off­shore enti­ties reg­is­tered in the British Virgin Islands that got ser­vices from Trident Trust.<br /> <br /> Trident Trust also pro­vid­ed ser­vices to U.S. trusts cre­at­ed from 2000 to 2019 that ICIJ iden­ti­fied dur­ing the Pandora Papers inves­ti­ga­tion. Out of 206 trusts, 43 were reg­is­tered with Trident Trust’s local office in South Dakota. ICIJ’s data analy­sis shows that in total, the U.S. trusts in the Pandora Papers held assets worth more than $1 bil­lion, includ­ing real estate in Florida, New York and Germany, and accounts with banks in Panama, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and elsewhere.<br /> <br /> Along with the off­shore enti­ties asso­ci­at­ed with Trident Trust, anoth­er more than 7,000 enti­ties linked to the oth­er six providers in this data release are also now includ­ed in the Offshore Leaks data­base. Data asso­ci­at­ed with those six providers includes at least 71 politi­cians and high lev­el pub­lic offi­cials who used those enti­ties. Among them are 10 cur­rent and for­mer coun­try lead­ers from Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Gabon, Honduras, Jordan, Paraguay, Peru and Qatar. One of them also got ser­vices from Trident Trust.<br /> <br /> While the new­ly released data con­tains rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion that was pre­vi­ous­ly unavail­able to the pub­lic, not every offi­cer or sig­nif­i­cant indi­vid­ual fea­tured in Pandora Papers report­ing appears in the Offshore Leaks data­base. This is because infor­ma­tion about own­er­ship is often buried in emails, pow­er-of-attor­ney let­ters and inter­nal notes and can­not eas­i­ly be extract­ed in a sys­tem­at­ic manner.<br /> <br /> ICIJ’s data and tech teams ded­i­cat­ed months to the struc­tur­ing of the infor­ma­tion that was iden­ti­fied as being impor­tant by the teams’ data jour­nal­ists and devel­op­ers as well as by reporters and media part­ners across the world. To extract infor­ma­tion from the mil­lions of records, ICIJ com­bined a series of meth­ods that var­ied for each of the 14 off­shore ser­vices providers. The team com­bined and stan­dard­ized infor­ma­tion com­ing from spread­sheets; used pro­gram­ming lan­guages to auto­mate data extrac­tion and struc­ture the infor­ma­tion; and employed machine learn­ing and oth­er tools. The team also man­u­al­ly extract­ed details from hand­writ­ten or hard-to-read forms. After struc­tur­ing the infor­ma­tion, ICIJ staffers put the data through a rig­or­ous fact-check­ing process that incor­po­rat­ed ICIJ’s bespoke data clean­ing and val­i­da­tion tool, Prophecies.<br /> <br /> Since December 2021, ICIJ has added more than 25,000 off­shore enti­ties records from the Pandora Papers to the Offshore Leaks data­base. They are explorable through the search engine and can be fil­tered by data sources, linked coun­tries and reg­is­tered juris­dic­tions fil­ters, among oth­er options. The data in the Offshore Leaks Database is also avail­able for down­load for non-com­mer­cial purposes.<br /> <br /> Original source of arti­cle: www.icij.org</div>

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