When
Tuesday, January 21st 2025, from 6pm - 7:30pm GMTWhere
Online via Zoom.Format
There'll be a great line-up of speakers plus ample scope for discussion and debate.About the book...
Late one evening, investigative journalist Bastian Obermayer receives an anonymous message offering him access to secret data. Through encrypted channels, he then receives documents showing a mysterious bank transfer for $500 million in gold. This is just the beginning.
Obermayer and fellow SĂźddeutsche Zeitung journalist Frederik Obermaier find themselves immersed in the secret world where complex networks of shell companies help to hide people who don’t want to be found. Faced with the largest data leak in history, they activate an international network of journalists to follow every possible line of enquiry. Operating for over a year in the strictest secrecy, they uncover a global elite living by a different set of rules: prime ministers, dictators, oligarchs, princelings, sports officials, big banks, arms smugglers, mafiosi, diamond miners, art dealers and celebrities. The real-life thriller behind the story of the century, The Panama Papersis an intense, unputdownable account that blows their secret world wide open.
About the author...
FREDERICK OBERMAIER
Frederik Obermaier, Germany, is a book author and Pulitzer-Prize-winning investigative reporter. Together with his colleague Bastian Obermayer he founded the Munich-based investigative newsroom paper trail media (exclusively publishing in DER SPIEGEL, ZDF, DER STANDARD and TAMEDIA). Together with this colleague Bastian Obermayer, he initiated the Panama Papers, Bahamas Leaks, Paradise Papers-investigations. He has received numerous honors for his work, including the CNN-Award, the Otto Brenner Preis, the renowned Wächterpreis, the Henri-Nannen-Prize, the Reporterpreis and the Helmut-Schmidt-Journalistenpreis. He also also shared in joint awards with his ICIJ colleagues including, the Scripps Howard Awards, the George Polk Award for Business Reporting, the Barlett&Steele-Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors-Award (IRE-Award) and the Pulitzer Prize 2017 for Explanatory Reporting. In 2017, he was further awarded the Murrey Marder-Fellowship in Watchdog Journalism at the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.
Obermaier is co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Data Collective and author of several books, including best selling accounts of the so called Ibiza Affair, which lead to snap elections in Austria, as well as the Panama Papers: âThe Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Moneyâ.Â
