Sultan Saiful
8 min readOct 30, 2021

It’s All about The Pandora Papers

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I received an email from ICIJ that landed in my inbox. Actually, this is not a surprise because I am one of the members of ICIJ. However, at that time I was quite shocked to read an email two days ago. The Pandora Papers shocked the world, not because of the figures that appeared in the research findings, but because of the moral issues. The greed and obsession that ruled the passions of the characters. The cases became a lesson of sorts that we need to instill in each other’s hearts. The characters did not follow the rules to protect the survival of the people and the name of justice.
The results of this interview are original and of course I dare not change them. Please read carefully and I expect you will explore the manuscript further.

Tell us about the Pandora Papers. Why are they called that, and why do they matter?

The Pandora Papers is the biggest collaboration ever in the history of journalism, with hundreds of journalists working on publishing the best stories you can imagine. This is a very impactful investigation based on almost 12 million documents leaked from 14 offshore providers — firms that offer to create wealth through offshore companies. The project is called the Pandora Papers because this collaboration builds upon the legacy of the Panama and Paradise Papers, and the ancient myth of Pandora’s Box still evokes an outpouring of trouble and woe. Inside this huge amount of data, we found a lot of hidden…