ICIJ

“I can tell you, when you publish simultaneously in 76 countries on the same day at the same time, it's like an explosion, you know, because then all of their rivals have to catch up, and so they're all jumping in, and you get this Great momentum on a story tha…”

“When we're looking through these documents, we're not interested in people's bank accounts, their passport details. I don't believe in making that public, and I think that's the difference between ICIJ and, say, an organization like WikiLeaks. That just publis…”

“We were a little non-profit with about 800,000 dollars to spend, so we had about three staff and maybe Room for every now and again a freelance reporter.”

“Mossack Fonseca itself, which was a sprawling empire of companies around the world, has now closed. The principals ended up in jail.”

“At the moment we've got about a 150 inquiries in something like 80 countries around the world. Governments have recovered about half a billion dollars in taxes”

“Yeah, arguably the biggest story that came out of the Panama Papers was that we found about twenty billion dollars that was being funneled through offshore companies, That was linked to a guy in Russia who was the godfather of Vladimir Putin's child. And here …”

“It was actually more documents than the Panama Papers. We had about 13.4 million documents on the end of the Paradise Papers.”

“In the end, we had about 400 reporters working on the stories, In 76 different countries, and we worked in silence and total secrecy for about a year.”

“And the third question, which is a little bit controversial again for journalists, is can we get a result from publishing the story? So if we publish the story about the potholes, Will the councils or whoever's responsible come along and fix it? Can we actuall…”

“I know our Russian reporters, before we published that story in Putin, had left the country. So when we published, they weren't there. They did go back afterwards. Journalists are putting their lives in danger in some cases.”