Tag Archive for: Panama Papers

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How to Improve Your Privacy by Staying Off Databases

A reader of my new book, The Art of Fact Investigation, suggested that for the next edition there should be a chapter about legal ways to “hide from snoopers, private and public sector. I am probably not the only one who was thinking as I…
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Offshore Asset Search? Start with Onshore

Clients always want to know what’s involved in searching offshore for hidden assets. Our usual answer is, “time and a lot more money than it’s probably worth, unless you’re looking for millions of dollars.” Suddeutsche Zeitung, one…
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Lessons from the Panama Papers

When is a big financial story an unsurprising financial story? When it turns out that people from corrupt and repressive countries are sneaking their money offshore to keep it hidden. The world today is tearing into a huge leak of Panamanian…