Trevor Clarke, tax haven architect and current-day user
This article, published by Matariki FM in the Cook Islands, is about tax haven activities of that nation’s richest man….
Category: Major investigations
Who Uses the Offshore World
Secret records obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reveal tens of thousands of people in more than 170 countries and territories linked to offshore companies and trusts. Here are some examples from around the world. By Marina Walker Guevara, Nicky Hager, Mar Cabra, Gerard Ryle and Emily Menkes
How do you make sense of more than a million leaked documents?
The story behind the massive leak of documents revealing the extent to which the world’s wealthy go to avoid and evade tax and New Zealand’s part in the investigations
Money trail leads home to New Zealand, Sunday Star-Times
Leaked documents reveal one of New Zealand’s richest families was for a time at the heart of a major international tax haven company that hit the news in the United States last week.
Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy
By Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker Guevara, Michael Hudson, Nicky Hager, Duncan Campbell and Stefan Candea
Disclosure of secret offshore documents may force top Mongolian lawmaker to resign
Deputy speaker of Mongolia’s Parliament admits he had $1 million Swiss account….
The Manipulators, chapter 10 of The Hollow Men
The Australian strategists Crosby/Textor have returned to the news working for the British Conservative Party. We are reproducing a chapter about their operations in a New Zealand campaign, including leaked reports that show clearly how they think and operate…
(See also http://www.nickyhager.info/crosby-v-hager-defamation-proceedings-as-political-weapon)
“Principled small nation or stalwart ally? New Zealand’s independent foreign policy”, 2019 chapter by Nicky Hager
Spies target animal rights campaigners
An Auckland private investigation firm has been caught out after it attached a sophisticated tracking device to a political campaigner’s car – but left the device visible from outside the vehicle. It is the third time in three years the Sunday Star-Times has caught Thompson & Clark Investigations doing covert surveillance on political groups for corporate clients.
FBI role in Big Brother’s sharper eyes, ears
GO TO the heart of one of Telecom or Vodafone’s mobile phone exchanges and you’ll find the whole system – covering a quarter of the country – is run by a single computer, no bigger than a small freezer.
Cables lead off to all the company’s cellphone towers and other parts of the network. A main cable, connecting all those phone users to the world, comes out the top of the computer and passes directly into a unit in the rack above. One cable goes into the unit but two come out: one continuing out to the world, the other coiling off to secret equipment marked “LI” on the system diagrams. “LI” stands for “lawful interception”.