Panama Papers Officers and Countries

[John Young]

 Panama Papers Officers 9 May 2016
 Selected Examples from 345,595

 CountryNumber
 _

 Not Identified 39,440

 China  33,283
 Hong Kong  25,953
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 CN/HK Total59,246

 United Kingdom 10,671
 Guernsey3,501
 Isle of Man 2,027
 Jersey  7,094
 Gibraltar 946
 United States   7,319
 Australia   1,689
 Canada  1,350
 New Zealand   485
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 Five Eyes Total34,232

 Russia  6,280

 Japan 895
 North Korea   175
 South Korea   174

 Greece  6,398
 Cyprus  3,677
 Italy   1,192
 France  1,003
 Germany   502
 Czech 271
 Ireland   260
 Denmark64

 Brazil  2,055
 Argentina   1,293
 Ecuador   927

 Israel  1,096
 Iran  147
 Palestine  11

 Bahamas 1,592
 Panama  5,355
 Cuba   18

 Egypt 315
 Djibouti3

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Re: "Offshore Leaks" clickthrough

[John Young]

ICIJ's also states that much of the gargantuan leak is near-useless
debris, a relatively small portion useful for investtigation, and even
that requires sophisticated judgment to avoid miscontrual into
scandalous outrage like that the early stories hyped and shamelessly
flaunted with duplicitous charts, spidery diagrams, packs of keyboard
peckers.

No admission yet what percentage, or number of terabytes of data
and 11.5 million files grandiosely announced, are worthy of
consideration except for reams of fishwrap.

It would be brave of ICIJ to backtrack its perfervid claims, restart
its campaign on a more judicious footing and state what it has: what
percentage or number of files are valid, accessible data, what is
licit, illicit, legal and illegal among those files and data according
to the laws of the countries involved, or if not that what study is
needed to sort the legal from the criminal, and who or what
organizations are qualified to make that assessment.

This could if nothing else provide a corrective to over-zealous
promotion of leaks, neglect of "shoe-leather" investigation,
over-reliance upon laptop potato-couchism, at the expense
of deeper public understanding and broader participation
beyond commodified outrage and inflammation -- and
weariness of too much bellowing for attention with dumps
of spurious voluminous data and shoot from the lip polemics,
trite headlines and shallow op-eds, calculated handwringing and
botoxed indignation -- the industrialization of WikiLeakification,
Snowdenization, Panama Paper Banana Republication.

On the other hand it satisfying to graze among the 1.7M
items released by ICIJ yesterday, to ogle the 100,000s
of offshore officers entities around the world, led by China
and the Five Eyes, Russia a distant third, Europe hardly
in the running. Then see North Korea and South Korea
in a near tie of stashing Dollars and Renminbi.
Broader involvement of knowledgeable parties in assessing
leaked material, beyond the capabilities and interests of
commercial journalism, would be saluatory.


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