Pandora Papers

2021 financial document leak and scandal
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Summary

Pandora Papers is an information leak[1]. It draws 5,544 Wikipedia views per month (information leak category, ranking #3 of 18).[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists[3]
  • Instance of: scandal[4], data journalism[5], data set[6], investigative journalism[7]
  • Publisher: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists[8]
  • Named after: Pandora's box[9]
  • Inception: October 3, 2021[10]
  • Publication date: October 3, 2021[11]
  • Point in time: October 2, 2021[12]
  • Participant: Andrej Babiš[13], Tony Blair[14], Sebastián Piñera[15], Uhuru Kenyatta[16], Milo Đukanović[17], Volodymyr Zelenskyy[18], Tamim bin Hamad Al[19], Ali Bongo Ondimba[20], Guillermo Lasso[21], Abdullah II of Jordan[22], Ilham Aliyev[23], Shakira[24], Claudia Schiffer[25], Sachin Tendulkar[26]
  • Official website: https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/[27]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Pandora Papers[28]
  • Main subject: tax noncompliance[29], shell corporation[30], tax evasion[31]
  • Described at URL: https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/[32], https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers[33]
  • Number of participants: 600[34]
  • Different from: Paradise Papers[35], Panama Papers[36], Suisse secrets[37]
  • Has list: list of people named in the Pandora Papers[38]
  • Hashtag: PandoraPapers[39]
  • Significant person: Douglas Latchford[40]
  • API endpoint URL: https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/api/v1/reconcile/pandora-papers[41]

Why It Matters

Pandora Papers has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . infobae.com. infobae.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . washingtonpost.com. washingtonpost.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . icij.org. Retrieved . icij.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . lanacion.com.ar. Retrieved . lanacion.com.ar. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . yle.fi. yle.fi. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . occrp.org. occrp.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . occrp.org. occrp.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . occrp.org. occrp.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Офшор 95. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . occrp.org. occrp.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . elcomercio.pe. elcomercio.pe. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . bbc.co.uk. bbc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . theguardian.com. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . Offshore loot: how notorious dealer used trusts to hoard Khmer treasures. theguardian.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [43] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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