Sentence examples for an offshore shell from inspiring English sources

The other allegation was that the firm used an offshore shell company named CAPCO to mask problems in AIG's car-insurance business.Events have not all gone Mr Greenberg's way.

If the prime minister of Iceland and his wife were holding millions of dollars in an offshore shell company while he was responding to Iceland's financial crisis, we have to wonder in whose interest he was making those decisions.

According to leaked US diplomatic dispatches released by WikiLeaks, the cash was moved through a Barclays bank account set up in London on behalf of an offshore shell company registered in the Isle of Man, where true ownerships are easier to conceal.

In the second (1990) Ruskin pocketed handsome pay and dodged repaying the $6 million balance of an IOU he'd written out to the company through an offshore shell he owned (he denies owing the money).

The scheme works like this: an offshore shell company buys a piece of real estate.

If they put that money in an offshore shell company, they can access it without being taxed for it.

The team set up a kind of offshore shell company, called a Special Purpose Vehicle, to fulfill the role supplied by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the first credit-default swap.

In addition, criminal prosecutors are investigating a group of offshore shell companies that helped members of Mr. Yanukovych's inner circle finance their lavish lifestyles, including a palatial presidential residence with a private zoo, golf course and tennis court.

An enormous trove of confidential documents from the notorious Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was made public on Sunday, exposing a vast web of offshore shell companies used by members of the global elite to evade taxes, hoard money, and skirt economic sanctions.

You got a lawyer, filled in a form and set up a Swiss bank account or offshore "shell company".

Sheltered inside a maze of subsidiaries, partnerships, and offshore shell vehicles, Ma and his colleagues in the controlling Alibaba Partnership can nominate anybody they like to the public company's board.