The Paradise Papers: Inside the Secret 9 Month Investigation
ICIJ turned investigative journalism into a global team sport. Find out how the “ICIJ collaborated with more than 380 journalists working on six continents in 30 languages” secretly combing through 13.5 million leaked documents. In some cases, creating a social graph of the corporate and political ties of the worlds Mega Rich.
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This segment originally aired on November 6, 2017, on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
After nine months of secret collaboration, a global team of over 380 investigative journalists released the findings of one of the largest troves of leaked documents in history last week: the Paradise Papers.
The investigation, shepherded by the same team that released the Panama Papers, offers unprecedented insight into the clients and business activities related to a Bermuda-based offshore services law firm called Appleby.
VICE News Tonight on HBO went behind the scenes from Day One of the Paradise Papers, with exclusive access to the investigative reporters working in secret across continents to expose an unseen world of offshore accounts, hidden money, and financial maneuvering at the highest levels of politics, business, and finance.
ICIJ collaborated with more than 380 journalists working on six continents in 30 languages.
Many team members spent a year using online platforms to communicate and to share documents.
Journalists tracked down court records
obtained financial disclosures of politicians in Africa, Europe, and Latin and North America
filed freedom of information requests
conducted hundreds of interviews with tax experts, policymakers and industry insiders.
— About the Paradise Papers Investigation - ICIJ
The leaked documents show how deeply the offshore financial system is entangled with the overlapping worlds of political players, private wealth and corporate giants, including Apple, Nike, Uber and other global companies that avoid taxes through increasingly imaginative bookkeeping maneuvers.
— Irish Times, Inside Politics
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