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ICIJ Offshore Leaks
Leak datasets through 2020. Not a live register.
Published by International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
In short
The ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database at offshoreleaks.icij.org says it covers more than 810,000 offshore companies, foundations, and trusts from the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Offshore Leaks. The same page says the records run more than 80 years up to 2020. The page licenses the database under the Open Database License. A search URL on 18 Oct 2026 stopped at a human-verification page, so this listing did not open a result. The page says inclusion is not an allegation.
Product pricing strategy
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Free
The database homepage did not print a price on 18 Oct 2026. It offers a search, a download, and a support link. The license lines are the Open Database License for the database and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike for the contents. Those are terms, not a fee. Do not treat a donation ask as a subscription. A verification wall is not a paid tier. If a mirror site sells access, that price is the mirror's. Cite ICIJ and the license when you use a file you downloaded from the page that loaded.
Utility and features
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The database homepage is the public description of five ICIJ investigations' structured data. It names Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Offshore Leaks, and it prints more than 810,000 offshore entities. It says the records cover more than 80 years up to 2020. That end date matters: this is not a feed of companies formed this year. The page tells you to cite the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists when you use the data, and it offers a raw download.
- Five investigations, one database. Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Offshore Leaks, as named on the homepage.
- Through 2020. More than 810,000 entities, more than 80 years up to 2020, more than 200 countries and territories.
- The search did not open. A search URL returned a human-verification page on 18 Oct 2026. No result row is quoted.
The disclaimer on that page says there are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts, that inclusion is not intended to suggest illegal or improper conduct, and that many people and entities share names. It tells you to confirm identity from addresses or other information, and that some information may have changed. A search for a firm name from this network did not reach a result list. It reached a verification page. This listing does not describe a node, an officer, or an address from a result it did not see. Use the download, or a search you can actually open, and keep the 2020 cutoff in the sentence.
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Cite ICIJ and keep the dataset name and the 2020 cutoff in the sentence.
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Download the file if the search wall blocks you, and read the schema before you join tables.
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Confirm a similar name before you write it into a memo.
Caveats
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The page's own disclaimer is the rule. A name in the database is not a finding of a crime. Similar names collide. The data ends in 2020 and comes from the leak files ICIJ received, each with its own time span. A company can have changed since the file.
This listing did not pass the human check on the search URL, so it has no result row to quote. Do not fill that gap with a famous name from memory. The homepage counts, 810,000 entities, 80 years, 200 countries, are the page's. They are not a recount. Person-level records in these leaks are sensitive. Do not paste a person's address into a public note. Confirm identity the way the disclaimer says, in the source you are allowed to use.
Potential use cases
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- A reader treats the database as a live company register. The homepage says the records run more than 80 years up to 2020 and names Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Offshore Leaks. More than 810,000 entities is the page's count. A company formed after that cutoff is not in this file. Say so.
- The search URL stops on a human check. That happened on 18 Oct 2026, so this listing has no node, officer, or address to quote. Use the download the homepage offers, read the schema, and cite the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. The database license is the Open Database License. The contents license is Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.
- Two people share a name in the leak file. The homepage says similar names collide, that there are legitimate uses for offshore companies, and that inclusion is not an allegation. Confirm identity from the source you are allowed to use. Do not paste a person's address into a public note. The data can have changed since the file.
Hard cases
The case where the first result is easy to over-read.
A famous name is filled in from memory
The verification page is not a result. Do not supply an officer, an address, or a firm from an older story to cover the gap. If you download the file, quote the dataset and the 2020 cutoff. Inclusion still is not a finding of a crime. The page says that, and this listing did not open a search row.
Questions
Is the Offshore Leaks database free?
The homepage did not print a price. It offers the search and a download under the Open Database License and a Creative Commons contents license. A verification page is not a fee.
Does inclusion mean wrongdoing?
The page says no. It says there are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts, and that inclusion is not an allegation of illegal or improper conduct.
Citations
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Titled sources. These public pages are what the quotes on this listing come from.
Product
ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database
https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/Documentation
ICIJ Offshore investigations
https://www.icij.org/investigations/offshore/