Using artificial intelligence, UPR News elucidated that Jeffrey Epstein's financial network linked to offshore leaks resulted in 7,000+ possible ways he could move money around the world, linked to Edge Foundation and to Zorro Ranch.

Published on 29 September 2026 at 13:00

09/29/2026

Having re-proven with artificial intelligence that the million or so pages of evidence we provided to the DOJ on 08/29/2024 that went missing from the DOJ's Epstein files -- did in fact prove that Jeffrey Epstein, Trump, Russia, and Edge Foundation billionaires linked to Zorro Ranch, have been stealing elections since at least 2016 -- we decided to re-prove and expand on the financial networks that proved the same, and/or were associated with the same, using artificial intelligence again.

More specifically, today we started with a number of offshore financial leaks not normally linked to Epstein, but which we linked to Jeffrey Epstein by 2024, and which we brough to them, now missing from the DOJ's Epstein files, for example, but not limited to the Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, FinCen files, Swiss Leaks, and other leaks.

We elucidated hundreds of core names across many different research projects, but when we asked A.I. to include all of the names across all the images, A.I. did not perform the same, so we are publishing all of the different results, which overlap in names and in numbering (ignore once you get through a set, as A.I. kept reusing the same numbering system for our different requests. Similarly, there are large spaces between some of the images below, and so continue until you reach our disclaimer to make sure you can access all the research into Epstein's financial and "things of value" research. The financial network diagrams follow this summary by artificial intelligence.

Overlapping Financial Networks of the Leaks Ecosystem

Question: Beginning from the Paradise Papers, Pandora Papers, FinCEN Files, and Swiss Leaks, map the full family of related financial leaks (using each leak's Wikipedia article and its cross-references), then identify the overlapping networks — shared intermediaries, banks, jurisdictions, and named individuals — drawing additional names from ProPublica and wider web sources.


Executive Summary

  1. The four seed leaks are not isolated. They belong to a continuous, ICIJ-anchored leak ecosystem running from the 2013 Offshore Leaks through the 2023 Cyprus Confidential, with shared databases, shared journalistic infrastructure, and — critically — shared corporate nodes.

  2. Wikipedia cross-referencing surfaces thirteen distinct leak sets: Offshore Leaks (2013), LuxLeaks (2014), Swiss Leaks (2015), Panama Papers (2016), Bahamas Leaks (2016), Malta Files (2017), Paradise Papers (2017), CumEx-Files (2018), FinCEN Files (2020), Pandora Papers (2021), Suisse Secrets (2022), Cyprus Confidential (2023), and Dubai Unlocked/Uncovered (2022/2024). OCCRP's "Laundromat" investigations (Russian, Azerbaijani, Proxy Platform, Troika) form a parallel, complementary track.

  3. The single largest structural overlap is the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database, which deliberately integrates the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Offshore Leaks into one searchable graph of 810,000+ offshore entities — making cross-leak network analysis possible at scale.

  4. Client migration is itself evidence of network continuity: the Pandora Papers identified more than 500 BVI companies that had been Mossack Fonseca clients and moved their business to other BVI providers after the Panama Papers — the same beneficial owners, new intermediaries.

  5. Banks are the connective tissue across otherwise different leak types. HSBC appears in both Swiss Leaks and FinCEN Files; Deutsche Bank appears in FinCEN Files and in the Paradise/Pandora Papers (e.g., the Marcial Maciel scheme documented in both leaks); Credit Suisse anchors Suisse Secrets and was a repeated SAR subject in FinCEN Files; JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, and BNY Mellon were the other headline FinCEN banks.

  6. ProPublica's Secret IRS Files adds a U.S.-side leak layer (secret IRS tax data, 2021–) naming Bezos, Musk, Buffett, Bloomberg, Icahn and others — a different leak, different source (an ex-IRS contractor was charged in 2024), but the same wealth-preservation architecture the offshore leaks expose.

  7. Individuals recur across leaks: the Aliyev family (Panama + Pandora), King Abdullah II (Pandora, via BVI/Panama-registered structures), the Nazarbayev circle (Pandora), Rami Makhlouf (Swiss Leaks), and the Azerbaijani Laundromat's PACE-documented beneficiaries show that the same names surface repeatedly because they use the same small ecosystem of providers.


Methodology

  • Starting point: English Wikipedia articles for the four seed leaks, per your instruction. Each article's cross-references (both inline and "see also") were followed to sibling leak projects.

  • Iterative expansion: targeted searches for each newly discovered leak set; then searches for cross-leak overlaps (shared intermediaries, banks, individuals); then ProPublica's leak-based investigations (Secret IRS Files series); then wider web sources (ICIJ, OCCRP, El País, RFE/RL, OCCRP partner outlets).

  • Source types: Wikipedia (inventory/cross-referencing layer), ICIJ and OCCRP (primary journalistic sources), ProPublica (primary), and secondary press (BBC, El País, RFE/RL, Forbes, Al Jazeera) for name-level detail.

  • Limitations: (1) Wikipedia's per-leak "list of people named" articles are long; this report samples the headline names rather than exhaustively reproducing them. (2) The ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database itself (offshoreleaks.icij.org) is the authoritative cross-leak entity graph; the full 810k-entity dataset was not queried record-by-record here. (3) Presence in a leak is not proof of wrongdoing — ICIJ itself publishes that disclaimer.


Findings

1. The Leak Family (Wikipedia-anchored inventory)

Leak

Year

Source of documents

Scale

journalistic anchor

Offshore Leaks

2013

Portcullis Trustnet, Commonwealth Trust Ltd

130,000 offshore accounts

ICIJ — largest disclosure before Panama Papers (Wikipedia)

LuxLeaks

2014

PwC Luxembourg (advance tax rulings)

~28,000 pages / 340+ companies

ICIJ; leaked by PwC employees/ex-employees (Wikipedia)

Swiss Leaks

2015

HSBC Private Bank (Suisse)

~100,000 clients; >€100B (2006–07 snapshot); Hervé Falciani files

ICIJ, coordinated with Le Monde; 154 journalists / 47 outlets (Wikipedia)

Bahamas Leaks

2016

Bahamas corporate registry

1.3M files

Süddeutsche Zeitung (Obermaier/Obermayer) + ICIJ (Wikipedia)

Panama Papers

2016

Mossack Fonseca

11.5M docs; 214,488 offshore entities

SZ → ICIJ (Wikipedia)

Malta Files

2017

Malta corporate registry

several hundred thousand documents

European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), not ICIJ (Wikipedia)

Paradise Papers

2017

Appleby (+ Estera), Asiaciti Trust, 19 havens' registries

13.4M docs; 1.4 TB

SZ → ICIJ (Wikipedia, fr)

CumEx-Files

2018

cum-ex dividend-fraud scheme papers

multi-billion-euro theft from European treasuries

Correctiv (non-ICIJ) (Wikipedia)

FinCEN Files

2020

U.S. Treasury FinCEN SARs (leaked to BuzzFeed News)

2,121 SARs; 200,000+ transactions; >$2T (1999–2017)

BuzzFeed News → ICIJ (Wikipedia, BBC)

Pandora Papers

2021

14 offshore service firms (Panama, Switzerland, UAE, etc.)

11.9M docs; 2.9 TB; 29,000 offshore accounts

ICIJ; 600+ journalists, 117 countries (Wikipedia, ICIJ FAQ)

Suisse Secrets

2022

Credit Suisse

CHF 100B+; 30,000+ clients; data spanning 1940s–2010s

OCCRP-led; Swiss media gagged by banking-secrecy law (Wikipedia)

Dubai Uncovered / Unlocked

2022 / 2024

Dubai property registry data (obtained by C4ADS)

2022: 274,000 owners of 800,000 properties; 2024: millions of properties 2020–22

E24 (Norway) / OCCRP + 25 outlets (Uncovered, Unlocked, OCCRP)

Cyprus Confidential

2023

Six Cyprus financial-services providers + Latvian registry-data firm (i-Cyprus)

3.6M files, mid-1990s–April 2022

ICIJ + OCCRP, 67 media partners; focus on Russian sanctions evasion (Wikipedia, ICIJ FAQ)

Parallel OCCRP track — the Laundromats. OCCRP has exposed four systematic money-pipeline schemes: the Proxy Platform, the Russian Laundromat, the Azerbaijani Laundromat, and the Troika Laundromat; PACE formally cited them in a 2019 money-laundering resolution (OCCRP, PACE). These are investigative reconstructions of laundering networks rather than single-source leaks, but they name many of the same banks and beneficiaries.

2. The Structural Overlap: One Database, One Network

  • The ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database (810,000+ offshore companies, foundations, trusts) explicitly integrates the Pandora Papers, Paradise Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Panama Papers, and Offshore Leaks into a single graph covering 80+ years and 200+ countries (ICIJ, About page). This is the machine that makes "overlapping networks" a measurable phenomenon rather than an anecdote: any entity, officer, or intermediary can be traced across all five leaks at once.

  • The database's origin traces to the 2013 Offshore Leaks providers, Portcullis Trustnet and Commonwealth Trust Limited (About) — the first nodes of the graph.

  • ICIJ reused the same graph-tooling stack (Neo4j + Linkurious) from the Panama Papers into the Paradise and Pandora Papers (fr-Wikipedia) — the ecosystem is not only thematically but technically continuous.

3. Intermediary-Level Overlaps

  • Mossack Fonseca client migration: the Pandora Papers identified 500+ BVI companies that had been Mossack Fonseca clients and, after the Panama Papers, moved to other BVI providers found in the Pandora data (ICIJ). This is direct, documented network continuity across two leaks.

  • Trident Trust is a provider node in the ICIJ database spanning multiple investigations, with its own provider page aggregating entities across the Pandora, Paradise, Bahamas, Panama, and Offshore Leaks datasets (ICIJ Offshore Leaks DB — Trident Trust).

  • Appleby (Paradise Papers source) served clients including Apple Inc. (with Baker McKenzie, in Jersey) and, per the leak, provided active services to Mukhtar Ablyazov while he was accused of multi-jurisdiction fraud (it-Wikipedia).

  • Fidelity Corporate Services and other BVI registered agents: ICIJ notes nearly half of the Pandora Papers' 14 providers acted as registered agents in the British Virgin Islands — the single most repeated jurisdiction across all leak sets (ICIJ).

  • Pandora's provider count matters for network analysis: unlike the single-firm Panama and Paradise leaks, Pandora's 14 providers let journalists see the same clients being served by different firms — the providers themselves form a network (ICIJ FAQ).

4. Bank-Level Overlaps

  • HSBC — central actor in Swiss Leaks (tax evasion for 100,000+ clients via HSBC Private Bank Suisse; charged in France in April 2015) (Wikipedia); also a headline bank in the FinCEN Files SARs (Wikipedia).

  • Deutsche Bank — a FinCEN Files bank (e.g., flagged Jindal Steel and Power for money laundering per The Indian Express) (Wikipedia); Paradise and Pandora Papers documents jointly documented the full hidden financial scheme of Marcial Maciel (ICIJ).

  • Credit Suisse — Suisse Secrets revealed autocrats, oligarchs, war criminals, human traffickers and drug dealers among 30,000+ clients, CHF 100B+ (Wikipedia); the bank's failures were part of the same dirty-money exposure continuum as the ICIJ chain (WSWS analysis).

  • FinCEN Files' headline bank set — JPMorgan Chase, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered, Bank of New York Mellon (and Barclays) — saw shares plunge after publication; SARs were generated by institutions in 170+ countries (ICIJ, Wikipedia).

  • CumEx-Files adds a different bank cluster (~26 mainly European banks) but the same phenomenon: coordinated networks exploiting regulatory seams (Wikipedia).

5. Individual-Level Overlaps and Headline Names

Swiss Leaks (HSBC/Falciani) — Rami Makhlouf (cousin of Bashar al-Assad), members of the Moroccan royal family (King Mohammed VI ~$9.1M, Princess Lalla Meryem, Prince Moulay Rachid), Arlette Ricci (Nina Ricci heir, convicted 2015); Italian names on the Falciani list included Giuseppe Recchi (Telecom Italia), Benetton CEO Eugenio Marco Airoldi, pollster Renato Mannheimer, deputy Giuseppe Civati (Wikipedia, FIRSTonline).

Panama + Pandora (multi-leak) — The Aliyev family: named in the Panama Papers, and in the Pandora Papers the family and close associates acquired dozens of prime London properties worth ~$700M through an interconnected network of 84 offshore companies (OCCRP, RFE/RL).

Pandora Papers — King Abdullah II (14 luxury properties in US/UK worth ~$106M via Panama- and BVI-based offshore companies, 2003–17) (Al Jazeera, Inkyfada); Tony Blair and Andrej Babis (Forbes); Nursultan Nazarbayev's circle — his alleged unofficial third wife Asel Kurmanbayeva received a $30M payout via share transfers across six mostly-BVI offshore companies (OCCRP, The Diplomat); plus 35 current/former world leaders and 330+ politicians and officials (Wikipedia, RFE/RL). ICIJ notes celebrities from Shakira to Ringo Starr also appear (ICIJ).

Paradise Papers — Wilbur Ross, the Queen's Duchy of Lancaster estate, Bono (Lithuanian shopping centre via a Malta company), plus 2,829 Greek names including Limerick mayor John Moran (Wikipedia); full roster in Wikipedia's dedicated list article (List of people and organisations named in the Paradise Papers).

Suisse Secrets — autocrats, oligarchs, war criminals, human traffickers, drug dealers among 30,000+ Credit Suisse clients (Wikipedia).

Dubai Unlocked/Uncovered — sanctioned Russian politicians, financial criminals, corrupt European officials and fugitives owning Dubai real estate (OCCRP, VSquare).

FinCEN Files — SAR-based; notable subject flows included US$167M through Australian banks (Macquarie $123M, Commonwealth Bank $44M) and the Deutsche Bank/Jindal Steel flag (Wikipedia).

6. ProPublica Layer (U.S.-side leak)

  • The Secret IRS Files (2021–, ongoing series): a trove of IRS tax data covering thousands of the wealthiest Americans. Headline findings: Jeff Bezos paid $0 federal income tax in 2007 and again in 2011 (even claiming a $4,000 child tax credit in 2011); Elon Musk paid no federal income tax in 2018; Michael Bloomberg and Carl Icahn also had near-zero years; Warren Buffett's true tax rate was a fraction of his wealth growth (ProPublica — main story, Short Form guide, Series archive).

  • Source and legal aftermath: in 2024 the DOJ charged an ex-IRS consultant with leaking tax information to news organizations; the DOJ's description of the second leak (regarding "a high-ranking government official") appears to match the NYT's Trump tax reporting (ProPublica).

  • Network relevance: ProPublica's leak is a different channel (domestic tax records, not offshore structures), but it documents the same architecture — the ultra-wealthy's wealth-preservation playbook that the offshore leaks show from the haven side.


Source Notes

Source

Credibility

Last updated

Panama Papers — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Paradise Papers — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Pandora Papers — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

FinCEN Files — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Swiss Leaks — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Offshore Leaks — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

LuxLeaks — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Bahamas Leaks — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Malta Files — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Suisse Secrets — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Cyprus Confidential — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Dubai Uncovered — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

Dubai Unlocked — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

CumEx-Files — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

List of people named in the Panama Papers — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

List of people and organisations named in the Paradise Papers — Wikipedia

4/5

continuously edited

ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database

5/5

-

ICIJ — Pandora Papers FAQ

5/5

2021

ICIJ — Pandora Papers dataset

5/5

2021

ICIJ — Cyprus Confidential FAQ

5/5

2023

ICIJ — FinCEN Files bank stocks

5/5

2020

OCCRP — Troika Laundromat

5/5

2019

OCCRP — Aliyev London properties

5/5

2021

OCCRP — Nazarbayev

5/5

2021

OCCRP — Dubai Uncovered

5/5

2024

ProPublica — The Secret IRS Files

5/5

2021

ProPublica — Secret IRS Files series

5/5

ongoing

ProPublica — DOJ charges ex-IRS consultant

5/5

2024

BBC — FinCEN Files explainer

4/5

2020

RFE/RL — Pandora Papers world leaders

4/5

2021

Al Jazeera — Jordan king

4/5

2021

Forbes — Pandora Papers leaders

3/5

2021

El País — Pandora Papers Spain

4/5

2021

FIRSTonline — Falciani list Italian names

3/5

2015

PACE — Laundromats resolution

5/5

2019

The Diplomat — Kazakhstan

3/5

2021

Inkyfada — King of Jordan

4/5

2021

VSquare — Dubai Unlocked

4/5

2024

WSWS — Credit Suisse analysis

2/5 (opinion/analysis)

2022

Caveats and conflicts. Wikipedia's translated-language articles (French, Spanish, Italian, German) occasionally carry figures that differ slightly from the English versions (e.g., Paradise Papers 13.4M vs 13.5M documents); the English ICIJ-linked figures are used here where they conflict. ICIJ expressly cautions that inclusion in the leaks does not imply wrongdoing. CumEx-Files, Malta Files, Suisse Secrets, and the Laundromats are non-ICIJ projects that nonetheless share banks, jurisdictions, and subjects with the ICIJ family.


Open Questions

  1. Record-level cross-leak queries: the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database can be queried directly (e.g., every entity linked to both Appleby and Trident Trust, or every intermediary with entities in both the Panama and Pandora datasets). A systematic extraction — e.g., the top 50 intermediaries by cross-leak entity count — would quantify the overlap rather than illustrate it.

  2. Beneficial-owner overlap between FinCEN Files SARs subjects and ICIJ leak entities: the SARs are not public record-by-record; how much subject overlap with the offshore leaks was documented by ICIJ partners has not been fully catalogued here.

  3. ProPublica ↔ offshore-leak person overlap: whether Secret IRS Files subjects (Bezos, Musk, Bloomberg, etc.) also appear in ICIJ or OCCRP entity data — a name-level intersection worth running directly against the Offshore Leaks Database.

  4. Successor providers post-2023: Cyprus Confidential and Dubai Unlocked suggest the ecosystem is migrating from classic Caribbean havens toward Cyprus, the UAE, and Dubai real estate; the next leak's center of gravity is a live question.

  5. The unnamed 14th provider problem: ICIJ has not disclosed all 14 Pandora Papers source firms; some remain unidentified, so true provider-network coverage is incomplete.


Recommendations / Next Steps

  1. Query the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database systematically for cross-leak intermediaries (the database is downloadable under ODbL — a raw copy is available) and build a ranked overlap table.

  2. Build an entity-graph dataset: nodes = leaks, providers, banks, individuals; edges = documented appearances. The Wikipedia list-articles (Panama, Paradise) plus the ICIJ database are sufficient to seed it.

  3. Add the OCCRP Laundromat name-sets (Russian, Azerbaijani, Proxy Platform, Troika) to intersect with ICIJ leak names — PACE's 2019 resolution is the policy-side hook.

  4. Track the DOJ prosecution of the IRS-file leaker for legal-research relevance — a rare criminal case over financial-leak disclosure, analogous in posture to the SAR-disclosure offense noted in the FinCEN Files article.

  5. Monitor ICIJ/OCCRP follow-ups: Cyprus Confidential and Dubai Unlocked are the most recent manifestations of the same network; expect subsequent releases targeting Gulf havens and sanctions-evasion corridors.

 

EPSTEIN FINANCIAL NETWORK AND INFLUENCE DIAGRAMS

Next are the financial networking diagrams we developed, which revealed as many as 7,000+ ways for Jeffrey Epstein to move and launder money around the world, including in offshore accounts, which A.I. reduced to hundreds of people and organizations, as follows. Again, many of these diagrams, names, and their number systems repeat, and so don't focus on the numbers as much as you do on the repeated names. Separately, ignore large white spaces between diagrams until you get to our legal disclaimer.