A cache of 1.3 million files concerning more than 175,000 companies registered in the Bahamas has been released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - the same group which revealed the Panama Papers.
The documents name offshore companies, trusts and foundations registered in the Caribbean nation between 1990 and early this year, list their date of creation, physical and mailing addresses and, in some cases, company directors and owners.
Documents were first leaked to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and subsequently shared with the ICIJ, much like the Panama Papers cache released earlier this year. The Times of Malta is a media partner of the ICIJ.
The 38 GB leak has enabled the ICIJ to create the first free, publicly searchable database of offshore companies set up in the Bahamas, with it saying that the country’s existing online registry is “often incomplete” and subject to a fee of at least $10 per search.
Data is not as detailed as that made available in the Panama Papers leak, the ICIJ said in a statement announcing the new document cache.
“The new data does not make it clear, for example, whether directors named in connection with a Bahamian...
