Apr 09, 2013
Billionaires Among Thousands of Indonesians Found in Secret Offshore Documents
Owners of corporations registered in tax havens include some linked to regime of the late dictator, Suharto.
Owners of corporations registered in tax havens include some linked to regime of the late dictator, Suharto.
Moonis Elahi, a Punjab legislator, was shareholder of a British Virgin Islands firm set up with the help of Swiss bank UBS.
Key members of the Malaysian government, their families, and well-heeled associates are among those owning secretive offshore companies in Singapore and the British Virgin Islands.
Worldwide network of ‘nominee directors’ helps hide real people, and organizations, behind offshore companies.
Secret documents show that, from the late 1990s until the end of the 2000s, French banks BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole oversaw the creation of a large number of totally opaque offshore companies for clients in search of secrecy and lower tax rates.
China slips in a global corruption ranking following revelations that the country's wealthy elite use offshore tax havens.
It’s certainly one of the the biggest single leaks of documents in the history of investigative reporting. And it names names.
British Virgin Islands firm kept doing business with shady characters even as regulators prodded it to obey anti-money-laundering laws.
Close relatives of China’s top leaders, including President Xi Jinping and former Premier Wen Jiabao, are revealed to have held secretive offshore accounts in tax havens.
Secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal tens of thousands of people in more than 170 countries and territories linked to offshore companies and trusts. Here are some examples from around the world.