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Secrecy World

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by Jake Bernstein


  early years

  Fidentia fraud

  Franchise

  FRO Inc. case

  Gordon partnership

  growing scrutiny of

  growth of

  HSBC and

  Iceland and

  ICIJ releases database of

  IRS investigations and

  Luxembourg operations

  Microsoft case

  Mossfon Trust and

  Nevada operation

  9/11 attacks and

  Niue companies

  nominee directors

  offices raided after Panama Papers release

  Offshore Leaks and

  Panama Papers and

  PEPs and

  Prometheus and

  Russia and

  Süddeutsche Zeitung story on

  Trump’s ties to

  trusts

  2008 financial crisis and

  U.S. market

  UBS and

  video

  Mossfon Trust

  Mubarak, Alaa

  Mubarak, Hosni

  Munich

  Murphy, Richard

  Nabila

  Nación, La

  Nahmad, David

  Nahmad, Ezra

  Nahmad, Joe

  Namibia

  National Security Agency

  Nauru

  Nautilus Trustees Limited

  Nazarbayev, Nursultan

  Nazism

  Neo4J

  Netherlands Antilles

  Nevada

  Mossfon operation

  Newfoundland

  New Jersey

  New York

  banking

  mafia

  9/11 attacks

  real estate

  New York Times

  Panama Papers and

  New Zealand

  Nigeria

  bribery scheme

  9/11 attacks

  Niue

  tax haven

  Niue International Business Company Act

  Nixon, Richard

  nominee beneficial owners

  nominee directors

  Nordea Bank

  Noriega, Manuel

  Norman Island

  Northrup

  North Star Overseas Enterprises

  Norway

  Nougayrède, Natalie

  Nuix

  Obama, Barack

  approach to secrecy world

  reaction to Panama Papers

  Obermaier, Frederik

  Obermayer, Bastian

  Odebrecht

  OECD

  crusade against tax havens

  Offshore Incorporations

  Offshore Leaks

  beginnings of

  China and

  database

  Mossfon and

  publication of

  offshore shell companies

  art trade and

  banking and

  Bank Rossiya network

  British Virgin Islands

  China

  drug trade and

  HSBC and

  Iceland

  IRS investigations

  Lux Leaks

  Mossfon Trust and

  Nigerian bribery scheme

  Niue

  nominee directors

  Offshore Leaks

  Panama

  Panama Papers and

  Prometheus project

  Russia and

  signed blank documents

  Swiss Leaks

  as tax havens

  Trump and

  trusts

  UBS and

  Wheaton case

  See also tax evasion and havens

  oil

  Olesen, Alexa

  Olszewski, Marianna

  Omicron Collections Limited

  Operation Tradewinds

  Operation Virus

  OVE Financial

  Owens, Ramsés

  Fidentia fraud and

  Mossfon Trust and

  Oxfam

  Ozero

  Ozon

  Paesa Sánchez, Francisco

  País, El

  Pakistan

  Palmer, James

  Panama

  corporation law

  coup of 1931

  demise of Mossfon and

  drug trade

  foreign ships registered in

  former Nazis in

  foundations

  government corruption

  Mossfon offices raided

  1989 invasion

  “offshore” jurisdiction

  oligarchy

  politics

  real estate

  tax havens and offshore system

  trusts

  Panama Canal Zone

  Panama City

  Panama Papers

  database posted online

  Iceland and

  John Doe source

  naming of

  Prometheus and

  publication of

  Pulitzer Prize for

  reaction to

  revelations

  Russia and

  Trump and

  Pan World Investments Inc.

  Papua New Guinea

  Paris

  Charlie Hebdo massacre

  Patriot Act

  Pelosi, Nancy

  Pentagon Papers

  PEPs

  PepsiCo

  Perrin, Edouard

  Peru

  Peskov, Dmitry

  Peters, Richard

  Petrobras

  Petrol Ofisi

  Petrov, Gennady

  Philippines

  Picasso, Pablo

  Pilet, François

  Pinochet, Augusto

  Pla Horrit, José Maria

  Plattner, Titus

  Porcell, Kenia

  Porritt, Gary

  Portcullis TrustNet

  Porteous, Kimberley

  Prensa, La

  Panama Papers and

  Prevezon Holdings

  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  Prohibition

  Prometheus

  Lillehammer conference

  parallel processing

  prostitution

  Pulitzer Prize

  Putin, Vladimir

  background of

  Bank Rossiya network

  Mossfon files and

  Panama Papers and

  Trump and

  2016 U.S. election and

  Qatar

  Quirk, James

  Quirk, Matthew

  Reagan, Ronald

  Red Cross

  Reeves, Dan

  registration fees

  René, France-Albert

  Ren TV

  Republic National Bank of New York

  Reuters

  Reykjavík

  Reykjavik Media

  Rich, Denise

  Rich, Marc

  Riggs Bank

  Ringier

  Road Town

  Rodríguez, Rolando

  Roldugin, Sergei

  Romney, Cyril B.

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rosebud Consultants

  Rosneft

  Ross, SS

  Rossotti, Charles

  Rostec

  Rotenberg, Arkady

  Rotenberg, Boris

  Roth, William

  Rothberg, Michael

  Royal Bank of Scotland

  Russell Properties

  Russia

  banking

  Bank Rossiya network

  collapse of Soviet Union

  corruption

  economy

  mafia

  Magnitsky case

  Mossfon and

  oil

  oligarchy

  Panama Papers and

  politics

  real estate

  sanctions on

  spy network

  tax havens and offshore system

  television

  Trump and

  2016
U.S. election and

  World War II

  Russian Commercial Bank of Cyprus (RCB)

  Rybolovlev, Dmitry

  Ryle, Gerard

  Falciani data and

  growth plan for ICIJ

  Lux Leaks

  Offshore Leaks

  Panama Papers

  Süddeutsche Zeitung Mossfon story and

  Swiss Leaks

  Sachs, Gunter

  Safra, Edmond

  Safra Republic Holdings

  Saint Moritz

  Saint Petersburg

  Saint Thomas

  Saint Ursula

  Samoa

  Sandalwood Continental

  Sangajav, Bayartsogt

  Santa Fé

  Sardarov, Rashid

  Sargasso Trustees Limited

  Sater, Felix

  Saudi Arabia

  Sberbank

  Schilis-Gallego, Cécile

  Schneider, Jerome

  Scott, Vianca

  Seattle

  secrecy world

  art trade

  banking

  British Virgin Islands and

  China and

  decline of

  Iceland and

  Offshore Leaks

  Panama Papers

  Russia and

  Trump’s role in

  trusts

  See also global elite; money laundering; offshore shell companies; specific countries, companies, and investigations; tax evasion and havens

  Segnini, Giannina

  Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

  Sequoia Treuhand Trust

  Seychelles

  tax havens

  Shallop, Emmanuel

  Shamalov, Kirill

  Shamalov, Nikolai

  Sharif, Nawaz

  shelf companies

  Shell Oil

  Shireburn Limited

  Shleynov, Roman

  Shnaider, Alexander

  Shorex conference

  Shvets, Yuri

  Shyfrin, Eduard

  Siemens

  Sierra Leone

  signed blank documents

  Simon, Adrian

  Simsbury International Corp.

  Singapore

  Singer, Paul

  Singh, Subhash

  60 Minutes

  Skuratov, Yury

  slavery

  Snowden, Edward

  soccer

  Sochi Olympic Games

  Société Générale

  Sociétés 6

  Soir, Le

  Solomon, John

  Sonnette Overseas

  Sotheby’s

  Sousa, Carlos

  South Africa

  Fidentia fraud

  Southport Management Services Limited

  Sovereign Society

  Soviet Union, collapse of

  See also Russia

  Spain

  Spiegel, Der

  Spink and Son

  Sputnik

  Standard Oil

  Stanhope Investments

  State Department, U.S.

  Stefánsson, Bardi

  Steinmetz, Benjamin

  Steinmetz family

  Stettiner, Oscar

  St. Peter’s Trust

  Stuber, Laura

  Sudan

  Süddeutsche Zeitung

  Commerzbank story

  Mossfon Luxembourg story

  Munich meeting

  Panama Papers and

  Sunbarn Limited

  Sunday Times (London)

  Supino, Pietro

  SVG Investments

  Sweden

  Swinton International

  Swiss Leaks

  Switzerland

  art trade

  banking

  Swiss Leaks

  UBS scandal

  Symonette, Sir Roland

  Syria

  Tages-Anzeiger

  Taiwan

  Tajideen, Kassim

  Talara Holdings

  Tamedia

  Tanzania

  tax evasion and havens

  art trade and

  Bahamas

  banking and

  Bank Rossiya network

  British Virgin Islands

  China

  CIA and

  Commerzbank raid

  Delaware

  Fidentia fraud

  Germany

  growing opposition to abuses

  HSBC and

  Iceland

  IRS investigations

  Lux Leaks

  Mossfon Trust and

  Nevada case

  Niue

  OECD crusade against

  offshore companies as

  offshore credit cards

  Offshore Leaks investigation

  Panama

  Panama Papers and

  Prometheus project

  Russia

  Swiss Leaks

  tax avoidance vs.

  Trump and

  trusts and

  UBS and

  Wheaton case

  See also offshore shell companies; specific countries, companies, and tax havens

  Tax Justice Network

  Temps, Le

  terrorism

  financing

  9/11 attacks

  Tesler, Jeffrey

  Thailand

  Thyssen-Bornemisza, Carmen “Tita”

  Thyssen-Bornemisza, Hans Heinrich von

  Tikhonova, Katerina

  Timchenko, Gennady

  Toronto, Trump hotel in

  Torrijos, Omar

  Tortola

  tourism

  Treasury Department, U.S.

  Tricornio Holdings

  Trident Trust Company

  Triple Canopy

  Trump, Donald J.

  Azerbaijan and

  brand

  mafia ties

  Mossfon ties

  Panama Papers and

  Putin and

  real estate empire and foreign business partners

  role in secrecy world

  Russia and

  tax evasion and

  Turkey and

  2016 election

  war on journalists

  Trump, Donald, Jr.

  Trump, Ivana

  Trump, Ivanka

  Trump International Hotel & Tower Baku

  Trump International Hotel & Tower Fort Lauderdale

  Trump Ocean Club

  Trump Organization

  Trump SoHo

  Trump Tower

  Trump Towers Istanbul

  Truskov, Andrey

  trusts

  in feudal England

  law

  Mossfon

  secrecy

  Tuppen, Ian

  Turkey

  Trump and

  Twin Declarations of Trust

  Twitter

  2008 financial crisis

  U.S. Virgin Islands

  UBS

  2009 scandal

  Ukraine

  ultimate beneficial owner

  Union Club

  United Arab Emirates

  United Nations

  Conference on Trade and Development

  United States

  anti-taxation movement

  banking regulations

  Bush administration

  DEA

  double tax treaty

  FACTA

  HSBC investigation

  intelligence

  Mossfon market in

  9/11 attacks

  offshore tax evasion investigations

  Panama Papers and

  postwar economy

  sanctions on Russia

  tax havens

  trust laws

  2008 financial crisis

  2016 presidential election

  UBS scandal

  Universo, El

  Uruguay

  USA Corporate Services

  Vanderbilt Management Group Limited

  van
Gogh, Vincent

  Vanora Foundation

  Varela, Juan Carlos

  Vásquez, Rita

  VEB

  Veles, SS

  Venezuela

  Panama Papers and

  Veraguas

  Vesco, Robert

  Video International

  Viner, Katharine

  Visa

  Voridis, Marie “Doda”

  Voyager project

  VTB

  Walker Guevara, Marina

  Wall Street Journal

  Walter-Borjans, Norbert

  Wang, Lijun

  Washington, D.C.

  Washington Post

  Offshore Leaks story

  Weibo

  Wen Jiabao

  West, Joe

  Wheaton, Frank

  Wheaton Industries

  Whitebury Shipping Time-Sharing Limited

  white gloves

  WikiLeaks

  Wilton Trading S.A.

  Winterbotham Trust

  Wintris Inc.

  Wired

  Worcester Equities

  World Bank

  World-Check

  World War I

  World War II

  World Wildlife Fund

  Wyoming

  Xi Jinping

  Xu Ming

  Yalçındağ, Mehmet Ali

  Yeltsin, Boris

  Yewdale Limited

  Yukos

  Zamin Ferrous Limited

  Zapopan

  Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Sheikh

  Zeller, Alexandre

  Zhang, Austin

  Zihlmann, Oliver

  Zollinger, Christoph

  Zolty, André

  Zuckerman, Mortimer

  ALSO BY JAKE BERNSTEIN

  Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency (with Lou Dubose)

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Jake Bernstein was a senior reporter on the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) team that broke the Panama Papers story. In 2017, the project won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting and was a finalist in International Reporting. Bernstein earned his first Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting in 2011 for coverage of the financial crisis. He has written for The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Mother Jones, The Guardian, ProPublica, and Vice, and has appeared on the BBC, NBC, CNN, CNBC, PBS, and This American Life. He is the coauthor of Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency and lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Prologue

    1.  Nazis and Radical Priests

    2.  Tropical Paradises

    3.  Name of the Game

    4.  Rise of the Global Banksters

    5.  How to Beat the Game

    6.  Full Speed

    7.  The North Star

    8.  The Art of Secrecy

    9.  The Vikings Lose Their Ferraris

  10.  Combing the Monster

  11.  Journalistic Firepower

  12.  Profitable Princelings

  13.  Follow the Leaks

  14.  Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind

  15.  Fortune Favors the Bold

 

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