Monks dressed as Tibetan Buddhist characters attend a religious ceremony, known as "Da Gui" (Beating Ghost), to celebrate the upcoming Tibetan New Year which starts on March 1 at Yonghegong Lama Temple, in Beijing February 28, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Lee The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists just published a huge database, dubbed the Panama Papers, that shows how some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful people legally hide their cash.

Nestled within the database of 200,000 companies, trusts, foundations, and funds incorporated in 21 countries is information about where many of the world's largest banks legally shelter cash for rich people.

The findings of the Panama Papers investigation were first unveiled at the beginning of April.

Over 11 million documents held by the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca were leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which shared the information with the ICIJ, an organisation made up of 107 media companies in 78 countries.

The global news outlets examined 28,000 pages of documents, also revealing the full scale of the tax breaks won by 340 companies. The ICIJ published this statement on its website along with the documents: "There are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts. We do not intend to suggest or imply that any persons, companies or other entities included in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database have broken the law or otherwise acted improperly."

The details of the investigation have already claimed the scalp of Spanish acting industry minister Jose Manuel Soria and Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson — each of whom stepped down because of activities exposed by the Panama Papers documents.

Business Insider took a quick look at which offshore entities banks and their subsidiaries are using to shelter cash. We have taken a spider map for one of the selected bank's units as an example. Each green dot represents an offshore entity with associations to the bank or bank subsidiary: