Because Platte International (BVI) hired it.
The men kept their names off public records by using offshore companies registered in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), where it was possible to be an anonymous owner.
The BVI's Its current prosperity depends utterly on the money.
The BVI company to own it was set up through a local law firm.
It, too, offers BVI secrecy: their services include "nominee officers and shareholders when confidentiality is a key issue".
"On financial services we took some early decisions, led by the premier, who runs that part of government, to secure the industry and keep that going, and work out how that can operate from different locations but still have BVI as the hub for it.
However, the BVI government has yet to announce whether it will send representatives.
Instead, it has passed legislation requiring company formation agents like Mossack Fonseca to hold the information and make it easily accessible online by BVI law enforcement agencies.
It is confirmed that the BVI process can produce strong directivity and clusters of focused sound waves in the far field.
