Nicholas Shaxson | The Cancerous Plumbing Of Financial Secrecy
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Shell Companies in the British Virgin Islands
The Swiss banking secrecy dates back centuries to, you know, even before Switzerland is a country. But there's the sort of era of globalization from the 1970s on when you've had a real flowering of new kinds of secrecy that are widely used. So Shell companies is another standard mechanism and one place that offers secretive Shell companies is the British Virgin Islands. The next thing is a different, the trust that you mentioned.
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