The Law Firm That Works with Oligarchs, Money Launderers, and Dictators | VICE | United States
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Tiens c’est marrant, Ken Silverstein dans Vice News parlait déjà de Mossack Fonseca et de Bachar al Assad le 3 décembre 2014. Jérôme Fenoglio ce matin citait sur France Inter, très fier de lui - et en « exclusivité » s’il vous plait - le nom de Bachar dans les #panamaleaks :) Qu’on ne vienne pas me dire après que les journalistes du Monde font leur boulot correctement. #misère (du journalisme français).
One purpose of a so-called shell company is that the money put in it can’t be traced to its owner. Say, for example, you’re a dictator who wants to finance terrorism, take a bribe, or pilfer your nation’s treasury. A shell company is a bogus entity that allows you to hold and move cash under a corporate name without international law enforcement or tax authorities knowing it’s yours. Once the money is disguised as the assets of this enterprise—which would typically be set up by a trusted lawyer or crony in an offshore secrecy haven to further obscure ownership—you can spend it or use it for new nefarious purposes. This is the very definition of money laundering—taking dirty money and making it clean—and shell companies make it possible. They’re “getaway vehicles,” says former US Customs investigator Keith Prager, “for bank robbers.”