Le Monde and fifteen other international media pierce Luxembourg's secrets through the investigation of ghost companies. OpenLux sheds light on some tax cover-ups that will be exposed today and in the coming days.

  Thousands of public data were used in the OpenLux survey conducted by 16 international media. OpenLux sheds light on some tax cover-ups carried out in Luxembourg.
The OpenLux survey is the work of journalists from Le Monde, Le Soir and various international newspapers. The data used was put online by the government itself as evidence of its desire for transparency on the activities of the financial center.
All the information was indeed free to access, but not necessarily in open data that was easy to compare with each other. "We saved a few years of work by using a computer script that simulated the behavior of thousands of Internet users who would have browsed anonymously for a year on all the pages of the LBR (Luxembourg Business Register)", indicate the "Decoders », the group of investigators.
These are more than four years of investigations that shed light on the gray areas of financial activity in Luxembourg. The declarations made by around 124,000 companies held a priori by owners from some 150 different countries have been verified.