However, the organization cautions that there are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts among the entries in the database.
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Meanwhile, the names of four individuals who were shareholders of Avant Garde Company are included in the list.
Apart from the request for cooperation from Panama, prosecutors Panagiotis Athanasiou and Galinos Bris have also ordered authorities to search the homes and workplaces of Greeks named in the leaked documents.
Data was obtained from Panamanian legal firm Mossack Foneca, which said it was hacked.
“ICIJ is not publishing the totality of the leak, and it is not disclosing raw documents or personal information en masse”.
Only a few of the details are made available to the general public rather than providing the complete details present in the Panama Papers Database.
The database does not contain all of the 11.5 million internal documents belonging to Mossack Fonseca because the ICIJ decided not to release files containing phone numbers, bank account information, financial transactions or passports for privacy reasons. “Their investigations uncovered the secret offshore holdings of 12 world leaders, more than 128 other politicians and scores of fraudsters, drug traffickers and other criminals whose companies had been blacklisted in the US and elsewhere”.
The ICIJ prefaced the data dump by noting that the appearance of particular persons and companies on the list doesn’t imply wrongdoing.
The ICIJ said one “longtime customer” of the firm was a U.S. financier later sentence to 17 years in prison for fraud.
WhileIcelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson stepped down after the papers showed his wife had links to collapsed banks in the country.
Mossack Fonseca is the fourth-largest law firm for offshore services, providing the means for wealthy corporations and individuals to create shell companies in tax havens.
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The papers were first leaked by “John Doe” who requested anonymity last week in a statement sent to the ICIJ and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, in return of aiding prosecutors.
