Post by propagandist on Apr 24, 2013 18:51:40 GMT -7
Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
Key Findings
Government officials and their families and associates in Azerbaijan, Russia, Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia and other countries have embraced the use of covert companies and bank accounts.
The mega-rich use complex offshore structures to own mansions, yachts, art masterpieces and other assets, gaining tax advantages and anonymity not available to average people.
Many of the world’s top’s banks – including UBS, Clariden and Deutsche Bank – have aggressively worked to provide their customers with secrecy-cloaked companies in the British Virgin Islands and other offshore hideaways.
A well-paid industry of accountants, middlemen and other operatives has helped offshore patrons shroud their identities and business interests, providing shelter in many cases to money laundering or other misconduct.
Ponzi schemers and other large-scale fraudsters routinely use offshore havens to pull off their shell games and move their ill-gotten gains. ...
Middlemen & Enablers
Faux Corporate Directors Stand in for Fraudsters, Despots and Spies
U.S.
Offshore Tax Havens Became Traps for Investors
Notable names
Who Uses the Offshore World
more ...
Government officials and their families and associates in Azerbaijan, Russia, Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia and other countries have embraced the use of covert companies and bank accounts.
The mega-rich use complex offshore structures to own mansions, yachts, art masterpieces and other assets, gaining tax advantages and anonymity not available to average people.
Many of the world’s top’s banks – including UBS, Clariden and Deutsche Bank – have aggressively worked to provide their customers with secrecy-cloaked companies in the British Virgin Islands and other offshore hideaways.
A well-paid industry of accountants, middlemen and other operatives has helped offshore patrons shroud their identities and business interests, providing shelter in many cases to money laundering or other misconduct.
Ponzi schemers and other large-scale fraudsters routinely use offshore havens to pull off their shell games and move their ill-gotten gains. ...
Middlemen & Enablers
Faux Corporate Directors Stand in for Fraudsters, Despots and Spies
U.S.
Offshore Tax Havens Became Traps for Investors
Notable names
Who Uses the Offshore World
more ...
Don't the right wingers who are usually so strong for law and order always say, "If you've got nothing to hide, you shouldn't be afraid of cops rummaging through your private stuff."
Except, of course, when it comes to those rich plutocrats they fawn over who expect to not ever be contaminated with coming into close contact with the like of you.
And, if the question of their lawlessness ever comes up, they insist that it be discussed in quiet rooms.
Romney's Quiet Rooms: Where All the Money's Hidden?
www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/mitt-romney-offshore-accounts_b_1647386.html
One such "quiet room" discussion when it wasn't expected that the common trash would be listening:
The ’47% tape’ and the man who revealed the real Mitt Romney
“Has there been any time where you feared for your life?”
“I was up against the most powerful, the richest people in the country and the stakes were pretty high and you never know what could happen,” said the man who shot the 47% video. “There’s nuts out there. You just don’t know. I’ve certainly had threats.”
tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/12/exclusive-the-man-who-showed-the-world-the-real-mitt-romney/
“Has there been any time where you feared for your life?”
“I was up against the most powerful, the richest people in the country and the stakes were pretty high and you never know what could happen,” said the man who shot the 47% video. “There’s nuts out there. You just don’t know. I’ve certainly had threats.”
tv.msnbc.com/2013/03/12/exclusive-the-man-who-showed-the-world-the-real-mitt-romney/
So, the rich aren't averse to committing murder to protect their secrets, their methods, and their stolen riches.