Spanske Mar Cabra hadde en sentral rolle i teamet som i fjor offentliggjorde databasen «The ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database». Databasen inneholdt enorme mengder data om personer og firma som hadde hemmelige kontoer i skatteparadiser rundt omkring i verden. Det er laget flere hundre historier verden rundt med utgangspunkt i de 2,5 millioner filene. På Data-SKUP forteller Mar Cabra, som jobber for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, om fremgangsmåten.

1. How to mine a big
leak -
collaboratively
Mar Cabra (@cabralens)
Data Journalism Manager
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
www.icij.org - @ICIJorg

3. #offshoreleaks
April 2013

4. China Leaks
January 2014
 China Leaks January 2014

8. Where do the data come
from?

9. At the end of 2011…
• 260 Gb hard drive
• 4 databases
• 2,5 millon files (emails, PDFs,
photos…) – non-structured data!
Methodology

17. Samarbeide

18. 112 journalists
58 countries
Working together
Diving into a secret world

19. FudForum

22. 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

23. 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)

27. Will you do the
Norway story?
(please! There are
at least 30
names!)

28. The stories so far

29. Impact (I)
We want the data!

30. 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

31. Gunter Sachs

32. 1 graphic, 6 languages,
10 publications

35. http://offshoreleaks.icij.org

40. Any questions?

41. Let’s use the data:
http://offshoreleaks.icij.org

42. Download
 Fuzzy Lookup Add-In for Excel
 OFAC list:
http://bit.ly/OFAC_ICIJ
 ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database:
http://offshoreleaks.icij.org/about/download

43. 1- Look at the names
from your country

44. The offshore way

45. Carmen Thyssen-
Bornemisza

47. contact@icij.org

48. Read everything

50. “Watermill at Gennep” by Vincent Van Gogh

51. Do the “regular” reporting!

52. Search public
documents

53. Court case Bermuda

56. 2- Massive matches
(use Fuzzy Lookup or other)

57. I EXCEL

59. 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/

60. Thanks!
mar.cabra.valero@gmail.com