Category: Tax havens
Jersey Offshore: multi-country collaboration
Auckland lawyer had been banned in overseas tax haven
An Auckland lawyer, central to an RNZ investigation into alleged money-laundering, had been prohibited from operating in any function as a fiduciary in the tax haven of Guernsey for five years shortly before starting work as a trust and company lawyer here.
Headline: Daphne Project: New Zealand still a haven for some?
An Auckland company may be caught up in an international money laundering controversy after it was identified helping to manage a network of New Zealand-registered companies and trusts for its secret clients.
Panama Papers: How to sidestep NZ disclosure rules
EXCLUSIVE – Panama Papers NZ – Mossack Fonseca’s main New Zealand agent, Roger Thompson, drafted legal documents for his foreign clients instructing them to avoid countries that have information-sharing agreements with New Zealand, the Panama Papers show.
Panama Papers: Law firms’ links to Mossack Fonseca
Panama Papers NZ – New Zealand law firms that lobbied the government in 2014 against shutting down the foreign trust industry in this country had extensive links to Mossack Fonseca.
Panama Papers: Nicky Hager on the selling of secrecy
Panama Papers NZ – My first experience of the tax haven world was in 2012-2013 when I worked with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) on an earlier and smaller tax haven leak. It was a sobering introduction to how much a network of secretive tax havens can cause harm for the rest of the world.
Panama Papers: NZ at heart of Panama money-go-round
Panama Papers NZ – New Zealand is at the heart of a tangled web of secretive shelf companies and obscure trusts being used by well-heeled South Americans to organise their private wealth, business affairs, and channel their funds around the world.
Panama Papers: The story so far
Panama Papers NZ – To what extent has New Zealand been caught up in the leaks, after the first documents were made public early last month?
Trevor Clarke, tax haven architect and current-day user
This article, published by Matariki FM in the Cook Islands, is about tax haven activities of that nation’s richest man….