Sentence examples for empty shell company from inspiring English sources

They held off wiring the second half of the fee, and brought in a private investigator, who discovered that S&N, far from being worth billions, was an empty shell company.

Europe's top regulator said that Amazon's regional headquarters in the tax haven had attributed around 75% of profits made in the EU to an "empty shell" company, via an arrangement it made with Luxembourg in 2003.

"Zhao and Zhu duped investors with promises that their money would be invested in a Chinese coal company when in fact the company was an empty shell that had been looted by the defendants," said Robert Khuzami, director of the S.E.C.'s division of enforcement.

The company is an empty shell.

She was indeed right: without citizens' input, society is an empty shell.

A quarter century later, that same high-rise was converted into offices to serve the needs of a burgeoning title insurance company, only to be abandoned later and left a graffitied, empty shell.

The latter was described by the commission as "an empty shell" that had no employees or offices, but was used to bring down the company's tax bill.

Once the shell company sells the apartments and depletes its funds, the pot may be empty.

Hafedh might inherit his father's party, but he already knows he inherited an empty shell.

"She is not an empty shell.

But it's largely an empty shell.