The Panama Papers in R

This provides the datasets from the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database from the Panama Papers. This dataset was constructed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and available here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. Besides that data, this package is available under GPL-3.

Future versions of this package may soon include other data from the Panama Papers besides the offshore leaks dataset.

Installation

Install using devtools:

devtools::install_github("dgrtwo/rpanama")

Offshore Leaks

There are five main datasets that this package provides. First is information on the Entities, Intermediaries, Officers, and Addresses from the offshore leaks dataset (see here for the definitions of each):

library(rpanama)
library(dplyr)

Entities
#> Source: local data frame [319,150 x 21]
#> 
#>                                           name
#>                                          (chr)
#> 1     TIANSHENG INDUSTRY AND TRADING CO., LTD.
#> 2  NINGBO SUNRISE ENTERPRISES UNITED CO., LTD.
#> 3                           HOTFOCUS CO., LTD.
#> 4              SKY-BLUE GIFTS & TOYS CO., LTD.
#> 5         FORTUNEMAKER INVESTMENTS CORPORATION
#> 6                         8808 HOLDING LIMITED
#> 7                     KENT DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
#> 8                          BONUS TRADE LIMITED
#> 9                               AMARANDAN LTD.
#> 10                            NEW IDEA LIMITED
#> ..                                         ...
#> Variables not shown: original_name (chr), former_name (chr), jurisdiction
#>   (chr), jurisdiction_description (chr), company_type (chr), address
#>   (chr), internal_id (int), incorporation_date (chr), inactivation_date
#>   (chr), struck_off_date (chr), dorm_date (chr), status (chr),
#>   service_provider (chr), ibcRUC (chr), country_codes (chr), countries
#>   (chr), note (chr), valid_until (chr), node_id (int), sourceID (chr)
Intermediaries
#> Source: local data frame [23,636 x 9]
#> 
#>                          name internal_id
#>                         (chr)       (int)
#> 1     MICHAEL PAPAGEORGE, MR.       10001
#> 2          CORFIDUCIA ANSTALT       10004
#> 3               DAVID, RONALD       10014
#> 4  DE  BOUTSELIS, JEAN-PIERRE       10015
#> 5    THE LEVANT LAWYERS (TLL)       10029
#> 6           ABARTH, ANNELIESE        1004
#> 7         FIGEST CONSEIL S.A.       10064
#> 8           MED ENERGY S.A.L.       10106
#> 9      TRUSTCO LABUAN SDN BHD       10116
#> 10      SYL LOGIC SERVICES SA       10121
#> ..                        ...         ...
#> Variables not shown: address (chr), valid_until (chr), country_codes
#>   (chr), countries (chr), status (chr), node_id (int), sourceID (chr)
Officers
#> Source: local data frame [345,594 x 7]
#> 
#>                                 name                          icij_id
#>                                (chr)                            (chr)
#> 1                         KIM SOO IN E72326DEA50F1A9C2876E112AAEB42BC
#> 2                          Tian Yuan 58287E0FD37852000D9D5AB8B27A2581
#> 3               GREGORY JOHN SOLOMON F476011509FD5C2EF98E9B1D74913CCE
#> 4                     MATSUDA MASUMI 974F420B2324A23EAF46F20E178AF52C
#> 5                        HO THUY NGA 06A0FC92656D09F63D966FE7BD076A45
#> 6                     RACHMAT ARIFIN 14BCB3A8F783A319511E6C5EF5F4BB30
#> 7                        TAN SUN-HUA C3912EA62746F395A64FB216BE464F61
#> 8      Ou Yang Yet-Sing and Chang Ko DB896EE47F60BB1B2E9EA9C10ACBFCD7
#> 9  Wu Chi-Ping and Wu Chou Tsan-Ting 1B92FDDD451DA8DCA9CD36B0AF797411
#> 10                     ZHONG LI MING 0AE47CB442426F2ACF73E42BFA6657FA
#> ..                               ...                              ...
#> Variables not shown: valid_until (chr), country_codes (chr), countries
#>   (chr), node_id (int), sourceID (chr)
Addresses
#> Source: local data frame [151,054 x 7]
#> 
#>                                                                        address
#>                                                                          (chr)
#> 1                                 -\t27 ROSEWOOD DRIVE #16-19 SINGAPORE 737920
#> 2                                      "Almaly Village" v.5, Almaty Kazakhstan
#> 3                      "Cantonia" South Road St Georges Hill Weybridge, Surrey
#> 4                     "CAY-OS" NEW ROAD; ST.SAMPSON; GUERNSEY; CHANNEL ISLANDS
#> 5            "Chirag" Plot No 652; Mwamba Road; Kizingo; Mombasa; 80100; Kenya
#> 6                             "La Diana"; 16 rue Del Respiro; MC 98000 Monaco.
#> 7  "Les hauts de St Jean"; 17 avenue Perdtemts; Canton de Vaud; CH-1260 Nyon (
#> 8                                    "Les Tattes"; Bursinel; Vaud; Switzerland
#> 9                           "Quai Kennedy" 1 boulevard Louis II Monaco MC98000
#> 10          "Sofia House" 48 Church Street; 1st Floor; Hamilton HM 12; Bermuda
#> ..                                                                         ...
#> Variables not shown: icij_id (chr), valid_until (chr), country_codes
#>   (chr), countries (chr), node_id (int), sourceID (chr)

These each make up nodes in a network. The all_edges dataset contains connections between these, including which entities have which offshore accounts.

all_edges
#> Source: local data frame [1,269,796 x 3]
#> 
#>      node_1        rel_type   node_2
#>       (int)           (chr)    (int)
#> 1  11000001 intermediary of 10208879
#> 2  11000001 intermediary of 10198662
#> 3  11000001 intermediary of 10159927
#> 4  11000001 intermediary of 10165779
#> 5  11000001 intermediary of 10152967
#> 6  11000002 intermediary of 10005174
#> 7  11000002 intermediary of 10008130
#> 8  11000002 intermediary of 10011418
#> 9  11000002 intermediary of 10010781
#> 10 11000002 intermediary of 10188436
#> ..      ...             ...      ...

all_edges %>%
  count(rel_type, sort = TRUE)
#> Source: local data frame [84 x 2]
#> 
#>                       rel_type      n
#>                          (chr)  (int)
#> 1              intermediary of 319121
#> 2           registered address 316472
#> 3               shareholder of 277380
#> 4                  Director of 118589
#> 5               Shareholder of 105408
#> 6  similar name and address as  46761
#> 7       Records & Registers of  36318
#> 8               beneficiary of  15151
#> 9                 Secretary of  14351
#> 10              Beneficiary of   4031
#> ..                         ...    ...

Each of the five above datasets comes directly from the CSVs released by the ICIJ here.

Example

We could find which countries have the most offshore entities (note that there are multiple countries split by ;):

library(tidyr)
library(stringr)

most_common_countries <- Entities %>%
  select(node_id, countries) %>%
  unnest(country = str_split(countries, ";")) %>%
  count(country, sort = TRUE)

most_common_countries
#> Source: local data frame [166 x 2]
#> 
#>                    country     n
#>                      (chr) (int)
#> 1  Virgin Islands, British 69092
#> 2                Hong Kong 51295
#> 3              Switzerland 38077
#> 4           Not identified 25700
#> 5                   Panama 18122
#> 6           United Kingdom 17973
#> 7                   Jersey 14562
#> 8       Russian Federation 11516
#> 9               Luxembourg 10877
#> 10                   Samoa  9729
#> ..                     ...   ...

We may also find inter-country intermediary relationships were most common. We could do this by joining the Intermediaries data with the all_edges data and then the Entities data:

entity_countries <- Entities %>%
  unnest(entity_country = str_split(countries, ";"),
         entity_code = str_split(country_codes, ";")) %>%
  select(node_id, entity_country, entity_code)

connections <- Intermediaries %>%
  unnest(intermediary_country = str_split(countries, ";"),
         intermediary_code = str_split(country_codes, ";")) %>%
  inner_join(all_edges, by = c(node_id = "node_1")) %>%
  inner_join(entity_countries, by = c(node_2 = "node_id")) %>%
  filter(rel_type == "intermediary of",
         intermediary_country != entity_country) %>%
  count(intermediary_country, entity_country, intermediary_code, entity_code) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  arrange(desc(n))

connections
#> Source: local data frame [869 x 5]
#> 
#>         intermediary_country          entity_country intermediary_code
#>                        (chr)                   (chr)             (chr)
#> 1                  Hong Kong Virgin Islands, British               HKG
#> 2             United Kingdom                  Jersey               GBR
#> 3                  Hong Kong          Not identified               HKG
#> 4                  Singapore Virgin Islands, British               SGP
#> 5             United Kingdom                Guernsey               GBR
#> 6             United Kingdom Virgin Islands, British               GBR
#> 7                     Cyprus    United Arab Emirates               CYP
#> 8                     Cyprus Virgin Islands, British               CYP
#> 9                 Luxembourg                  Panama               LUX
#> 10 Taiwan, Province of China                   Samoa               TWN
#> ..                       ...                     ...               ...
#> Variables not shown: entity_code (chr), n (int)

We could even put this on a map:

library(rworldmap)
library(geosphere)

country_centers <- getMap()@data %>%
  tbl_df() %>%
  select(code = ISO_A3, longitude = LON, latitude = LAT)

great_circles <- connections %>%
  filter(n > 100) %>%
  mutate(connection = row_number()) %>%
  select(intermediary_code, entity_code, n, connection) %>%
  gather(type, code, contains("code")) %>%
  inner_join(country_centers, by = "code") %>%
  group_by(connection, n) %>%
  arrange(desc(type)) %>%
  filter(n() == 2) %>%
  do(as.data.frame(gcIntermediate(c(.$longitude[1], .$latitude[1]),
                                  c(.$longitude[2], .$latitude[2]))))

library(ggplot2)
library(ggthemes)
library(ggalt)

world_map <- filter(map_data("world"), region != "Antarctica")

ggplot() +
  geom_map(data = world_map, map = world_map,
           aes(x = long, y = lat, map_id = region),
           color = "#b2b2b2", size = 0.15, fill = NA) +
  geom_path(data=great_circles, color = "#a50026", 
            aes(lon, lat, group = connection, alpha = n),
            arrow = arrow(length = unit(0.1, "inches"))) +
  scale_color_gradient2(low = "white", high = "#a50026", trans = "log") +
  coord_proj() +
  labs(title = "Most common offshore entity relationships") +
  theme_map(base_family="Arial") +
  #scale_size_continuous(trans = "log", range = c(.1, 1)) +
  theme(legend.position = "none", 
        plot.title=element_text(hjust = 0.5, size = 14))

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May 13th, 2016

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