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Nicholas Shaxson | The Cancerous Plumbing Of Financial Secrecy

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The Tools of the Financial Secrecy

Some of these trusts like this Australian journalist, Jacob Sharman, who just set up a bunch of financial trusts around the world with barely a passport that he needed to show. I think it's important to note that if you're just an unknown person who emails one of these trust companies and says, I want to set up this dodgy structure, it will tend to raise red flags among them. And the really sort of rich billionaire people will be able,. You know, Jason Sharman may have found it difficult to set up stuff in the Cayman Islands, for example, because they would have said, oh, we don't do that kind of thing. But if you're a billionaire

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