I am somewhat suspicious that it's been sitting with a group for ~ a year before being published. I have to wonder if certain information, groups or people's names have been redacted in that time -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#Leak
Leak
More than a year before the first publication of the Panama leaks in April 2016, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung received 2.6 terabytes of documents related to Mossack Fonseca from an anonymous source.[4]The total size of the leaked documents dwarfs that of the Wikileaks Cablegate 2010[4] (1.7 GB),[23] Offshore Leaks 2013 (260 GB), Lux Leaks 2014 (4 GB), and Swiss Leaks 2015 (3.3 GB). The data primarily comprises e-mails, PDF files, photos, and excerpts of an internal Mossack Fonseca database. It covers a period spanning from the 1970s to the spring of 2016.[4] The Panama Papers leak provide data on some 214,000 companies. There is a folder for each shell firm that contains e-mails, contracts, transcripts, and scanned documents.[4] The leak comprises 4,804,618 emails, 3,047,306 database format files, 2,154,264 PDFs, 1,117,026 images, 320,166 text files, and 2,242 files in other formats.[4]
The data had to be systematically indexed. This was done with a proprietary software called Nuix, which is also used by international investigators. The documents were fed to high-performance computers for optical character recognition processing, making the data machine-readable and searchable. Compiled lists of important persons were then cross matched against the processed documents.[4] The next step in the analysis is to connect persons, roles, flow of money and legality of structures.[4]
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