Paradise Papers: Secrets of the Global Elite
An ICIJ Investigation
A major global collaboration reveals secrets from one of the world’s most prestigious offshore law firms, a specialized trust company and 19 company registries in secrecy jurisdictions.
The Panama Papers: Exposing the Rogue Offshore Finance Industry
An ICIJ Investigation
A giant leak of more than 11.5 million financial and legal records exposes a system that enables crime, corruption and wrongdoing, hidden by secretive offshore companies.
US Department of Justice
Bank Agrees to Enhanced Compliance Obligations, Oversight by Monitorin Connection with Five-year Agreement …
Politico – Jack Blum – July 31, 2012
After reading the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee report, I am convinced that HSBC should be criminally prosecuted. So should its responsible officers and board members.
The report and follow-up hearings have shown that the bank has knowingly violated many criminal laws …
Behind UBS Case, a Dogged IRS
Wall Street Journal – By Carrick Mollenkamp – July 14, 2009
The U.S. government’s bid to halt Swiss bank USB AG from aiding U.S. citizens to allegedly evade taxes has stretched from exclusive enclaves in Miami and Geneva to the highest diplomatic levels …
A Whistleblower’s War Against Off-Shore Banking
150sec.com – By Tamara Davison – April 11, 2019
Swiss Banker Blows Whistle on Tax Evasion
The New York Times – Lynnley Browing, Jan. 18, 2010
From his home in the quiet village of Rorbas, outside Zurich, Rudolf M. Elmer is chipping away at the centuries-old traditions of Swiss banking secrecy. …
Banking Scandal Unfolds Like a Thriller
The New York Times – Lynnley Browing – Aug. 14, 2008
In 2004, Heinrich Kieber told a Viennese criminal psychologist that he no longer held the keys to the kingdom of Liechtenstein, one of the world’s leading purveyors of a shadowy private banking services to the wealthy …
Peroni-swilling Oliver Bullough has written the latest blockbuster on our subject. Praised by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times and countless others, Oliver’s book describes offshore as a network that is everywhere. “This is the story of wealth and power in the twenty-first century. It isn’t too late to change it.” We agree. It must be de-created.
Bank of Credit and Commerce International
New York Times – Steve Lohr – Aug. 12, 1991
World-Class Fraud: How B.C.C.I. Pulled It Off — A special report.; At the End of a Twisted Trail, Piggy Bank for a Favored Few
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Investigative Journalist and economist James S. Henry on new numbers for the amount of money stashed in offshore tax havens.
The Panama Papers are absolutely historic. Never before has the offshore system/infrastructure been laid bare to this extent in such dramatic fashion, with story after story of the bad things that are possible using offshore structures. Anonymous corporate structures are a huge part of this story, as the Panamanian law firm at the center of the story was specialized in setting up these anonymous structures. All about concealment.
