Scottish Independence Vote: Results, Ramifications and Neglected Corners
Results, Ramifications and Neglected Corners of the Scottish Independence Vote
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The Scottish Independence Vote: Views From a Distant Half-Scot
No-one’s quite sure what Scotland is, nor what independence is, but they’re all for it anyway, or against it.
Read more...Kim Dotcom, Glenn Greenwald, and New Zealand’s Intelligence Service, GCSB
Does New Zealand’s Intelligence Service spy indiscriminately on New Zealanders? High-profile, high-stakes claims and counterclaims, just ahead of the NZ elections.
Read more...New Zealand: How Crooks’ Buddies at WhaleOil Bounced Out the Chief of the Serious Fraud Office, and More
New Zealand: a tangled writhing heap of politicians on the make, spin merchants on commission, journalists looking for copy, chattering policemen, and bloggers on a sort of nihilistic spree. Like everywhere else.
Read more...New Zealand Companies Office’s $612Mn Money-Laundering Snooze
The Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project recently (21st August) published one of their periodic investigations, concerning a rather large moneylaundering scheme: Call it the Laundromat. It’s a complex system for laundering more than $20 billion in Russian money stolen from the government by corrupt politicians or earned through organized crime activity. It was designed to not only […]
Read more...New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, the Whale Oil Blog, and International Organized Crime
A new book is causing a stir in New Zealand. It’s called “Dirty Politics“. From the blurb:
Early in 2014 Nicky Hager was leaked a large number of email and online conversations from Cameron Slater’s Whale Oil blog. Many of these were between Slater and his personal allies on the hard right, revealing an ugly and destructive style of politics. But there were also many communications with the prime minister’s office and other Cabinet ministers in the National Government. They show us a side of Prime Minister John Key and his government of which most New Zealanders are completely unaware.
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New Zealand: The Shell Company Incorporation Franchises: Round-Up
In a series of recent posts on shell company incorporation scams, we reanalysed the New Zealand entities incorporated by GT Group (Ian Taylor), New Zealand Company Incorporators (Michael Taylor) and The Company Net (Glenn Smith). Curiously, some modest and uncontroversial reforms have yet to be enacted.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (V) (and Panama and Switzerland)
Yet more live connections between New Zealand companies and international organized crime, plus some Panama and Switzerland, too
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (IV) (and Latvia)
New Zealand: more dubious companies in the New Zealand register, and another elusive company incorporator
Read more...R. Hunter Biden Should Declare Who Really Owns His New Ukrainian Employer, Burisma Holdings
Trying to pierce the murk around the new Ukrainian venture of Vice President Biden’s son R. Hunter Biden
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (III)
We remind the New Zealand government that a shell company network linked to $10-100Bn of alleged moneylaundering is still active in New Zealand.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (II) (and Ukraine)
The nuts-and bolts view of these looting mechanisms shows how corruption actually works.
Read more...New Zealand: the Shell Company Incorporation Franchises (I)
How New Zealand shell company incorporations help tax evaders and scammers.
Read more...While New Zealand’s Company Law Reform Stalls, GT Group Helps a Thieving Ukrainian Despot
Since the Great New Zealand Shell Company Deregistration Frenzy of 2009-2011, which we rounded up here and here, the New Zealand Government, and the New Zealand Companies Office, have managed to catch a bit of sleep, bless them.
Read more...Robert Cowley, 2nd Baron Ardwhallan: A Scammer’s Comeuppance
Robert Cowley, CEO of fake bank Investment Suisse, goes to jail for fraud
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