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The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has released a searchable database<\/a> of nearly 214,000 offshore entities created in 21 jurisdictions.<\/p>\n \u201cThe data, part of the Panama Papers investigation<\/a>, is the largest ever release of information about offshore companies and the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures,\u201d wrote ICIJ.<\/p>\n The database contains information about more than 100,000 additional offshore entities ICIJ had already disclosed in its 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n ICIJ said that it is not publishing the totality of the leak, and it is not disclosing raw documents or personal information en masse. \u201cThe database contains a great deal of information about company owners, proxies and intermediaries in secrecy jurisdictions, but it doesn\u2019t disclose bank accounts, email exchanges and financial transactions contained in the documents,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n The data was originally obtained by reporters at the German newspaper S\u00fceddeustche Zeitung. They shared it with ICIJ, which organized a global investigative project, bringing in more than 370 reporters from nearly 80 countries.<\/p>\n