But what if a low-tax OFC is shoddily regulated or its rules are opaque?By definition there are no reliable figures on money-laundering worldwide, because its perpetrators try to make the proceeds of financial crime indistinguishable from legitimate money.
The next day started off clearly, but by lunchtime the world was opaque; by late afternoon I could barely see my hand in front of my face.
By day, framed in blackened steel, with those arrays of stained and leaded glass, the buildings can appear darkly and solemnly opaque; by night, they glow like lanterns.
I had imagined that contemporary art was the Internet's opposite: hermetically sealed, rendered opaque by dense theories and twisted power structures.
Beneath a sky made opaque by billowing dust, a mechanised shovel driver steered his vehicle toward the vast wall of an open coal mine.
Supermarket Lidl responded to claims that its structure is opaque by revealing it paid more than £25 million to the UK taxman last year.
