Frequently asked questions about the Cyprus Confidential investigation - ICIJ

Cyprus Confidential is based on more than 3.6 million leaked documents from six Cyprus -based financial service providers and a Latvian firm that sells Cypriot corporate registry documents through a website called i-Cyprus

. Cyprus Conf confidential records included confidential background checks, organizational charts, financial statements, bank account applications, email exchanges and much more.

Cyprus has an outsized financial sector and some of the EU ’s most lax financial disclosure laws, making it ideal destination for stashing wealth.

The Cyprus Confidential files were a cache of leaked documents from MeritServus .

ICIJ assembled and coordinated an international coalition of 69 media partners in 54 countries and one territory.

The financial system is deeply intertwined with a Cypriot political class that erected some of Europe ’s most stringent corporate secrecy rules and turned the Central Bank of Cyprus into a protector of the system.

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