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https://www.icij.org/blog/2018/08/loopholes-in-uk-company-register-show-crime-can-still-flourish-study-finds/
Corrupt politicians, fraudsters and money launderers could be using loopholes in the United Kingdom’s company register to avoid detection, an analysis by nonprofit Global Witness has found. Groundbreaking 2016 laws that oblige those owning 25 percent of any U.K. company to identify themselves made the study possible.
Companies with no publicly-listed owners, or owners concealed behind layers of offshore structures, are routinely used in criminal activity. ICIJ’s Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations revealed how politicians had made and received bribes and hidden millions of dollars from the public – in part through secretive companies – including those in the U.K. Global Witness found that more than 335,000 companies had not filed owner information. And while those companies may not be hiding illegal activity, other indicators used in the data analysis suggest that companies registered in the U.K. could be used for illegal activity.
The analysis found 208,572 companies listed post box addresses with no connection to the company’s owner, 140,409 companies with owners or others who provided addresses in tax havens, and 416 companies that changed names more than five times, possibly to obscure corporate activity.Other countries, including the United States, do not currently collect or publish corporate ownership information in a centralized database. One senior British police officer called anonymous companies “the single biggest obstacle to investigating corruption cases,” Global Witness reported.
https://www.icij.org/blog/2018/08/loopholes-in-uk-company-register-show-crime-can-still-flourish-study-finds/
Corrupt politicians, fraudsters and money launderers could be using loopholes in the United Kingdom’s company register to avoid detection, an analysis by nonprofit Global Witness has found. Groundbreaking 2016 laws that oblige those owning 25 percent of any U.K. company to identify themselves made the study possible.
Companies with no publicly-listed owners, or owners concealed behind layers of offshore structures, are routinely used in criminal activity. ICIJ’s Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations revealed how politicians had made and received bribes and hidden millions of dollars from the public – in part through secretive companies – including those in the U.K. Global Witness found that more than 335,000 companies had not filed owner information. And while those companies may not be hiding illegal activity, other indicators used in the data analysis suggest that companies registered in the U.K. could be used for illegal activity.
The analysis found 208,572 companies listed post box addresses with no connection to the company’s owner, 140,409 companies with owners or others who provided addresses in tax havens, and 416 companies that changed names more than five times, possibly to obscure corporate activity.Other countries, including the United States, do not currently collect or publish corporate ownership information in a centralized database. One senior British police officer called anonymous companies “the single biggest obstacle to investigating corruption cases,” Global Witness reported.
