Are the Cook Islands or the British Virgin Islands the legitimate heirs to that legacy?
The executive will then register a Limited (Ltd.) company on another offshore tax haven like the Cayman Islands or the British Virgin Islands, and declare that it is owned by his trust in Liechtenstein.
The conference audience was the right one from which potential whistleblowers could be drawn: It included representatives from offshore entities, high-net worth individuals and others who have information about offshore strategies, including attorneys, judges, trustees and businesses from the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas and other offshore financial centers.
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Otherwise those relying on it in the US Virgin Islands are going to have a hard time working out what those islands on the horizon are (the British Virgin Islands are not on the list) and New Zealand will be a bit surprised to note the non-existence of the Cook Islands.
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The boss of the Virgin business empire owns two of the smaller British Virgin Islands (BVI), and planned to have lemurs living in the forest on one of them, Moskito (also Mosquito) Island.
Sino-Forest runs its business through 58 holding companies incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
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Founded in 2007, OKPAY, Inc. is a subject of British Virgin Islands (BVI) regulations.
The company is incorporated on the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands.
Thailand implemented its law prohibiting tobacco product displays in the same year followed by British Virgin Islands in 2007.
Krys hoped to make up for this mistake by trying to get a British Virgin Islands court to negate the trade with Baupost.
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Thaksin had transferred shares in Shin Corp to his children via a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, thus circumventing capital-gains tax in Thailand.
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In 2007, along a familiar stretch of the British Virgin Islands from Anguilla to Anegada, Discovery's keel whacked a reef in the middle of the night.
China counts the tiny Caribbean bolthole of the British Virgin Islands as its biggest source of foreign investment (not including the Chinese territory of Hong Kong).
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In the past, officials have said that illegal funds were often sent to tax havens such as Mauritius, Switzerland, Lichtenstein and the British Virgin Islands among others.
Did he or she go to the British Virgin Islands for a conference in which there was one hour of consulting and otherwise a good deal of snorkeling?
Others assets had been shifted to the British Virgin Islands.
Six companies in the British Virgin Islands are being probed.
In November 2010 the fund was placed in formal liquidation and PriceWaterhouseCoopers consultants in the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands were appointed as liquidators of the fund.
Several of these firms are based in the British Virgin Islands or other offshore tax havens and plan to invest primarily in places like China or the Russian Federation.
Instead in March he had his companies that had relationships with Credit Suisse file for bankruptcy protection in Newark, New Jersey and a similar proceeding in the British Virgin Islands.
Because of China's laws and rulings on offshore listings, it first set up a vehicle in the British Virgin Islands called Solar Touch, which then turned the original company into a subsidiary.
After the first solo pilot tests the sub, Mr. Branson himself will pilot it to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench, near his private island of Necker in the British Virgin Islands.
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According to Blum, the real problem is not in the Caymans but rather in places like the British Virgin Islands, where it's easy to set up "sham" trusts that can confound tax investigators.
Ellison has bought about 98% of Lana'I, the sixth-largest island in Hawaii -- and one that's more than 1, 000 times larger than the private island that Branson owns in the British Virgin Islands.
The island at 1, 800 acres, the largest private island among the 60 or so that make up the British Virgin Islands has a rich lore, both as a speck of land and as a resort.
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As part of the wider legal battle the British Virgin Islands-registered Lyndhurst Development Trading was prohibited from enforcing any loan agreement under the terms of an emergency injunction granted in Belfast last December.
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