Paradise Papers - "Catch Me If You Can"

Two days prior to observance of 'Anti-Black Money Day' by the Government of India to mark the first anniversary of demonetisation, comes the largest ever leak of financial data dubbed the 'Paradise Papers'. The Hunk of 13.4 million documents relating to offshore investment, leaked to the public on 5 November, 2017. It is suggested that the documents originate from the offshore law firm Appleby, the corporate services providers Estera and Asiaciti Trust, and business registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, often referred to as 'tax paradises'.

On 17 November, 2017, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published additional data in the Offshore Leaks Database on close to 25,000 entities connected to the Paradise Papers investigation. More than 70 percent of the new records belong to entities incorporated in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. Other jurisdictions that also include hundreds of new records are the Isle of Man, Jersey and Mauritius. Most