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Monthly Archives: June 2016
Greenock & Cone Marshall: General Partners?
Since the previous post the foreign trust industry, that was being reviewed for its disclosure regime, as been put on notice. The review by John Shewan, previously the chairman of PWC in New Zealand, has been accepted as putting the … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged Geoffrey Cone, Greenock General Partner, Greenock Trust Company (NZ), Hector Carlos Mcewan, John Greenwood, Karen Marshall, Klaus Meyer Gathmann, Mariana Mercedes Devoto, Palladium Trust Company (NZ), Palladium Trust Services, Stephen Abletshauser
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Great Danes?:Equinor, Fid-Elite & Nordeq Trusts
This is the rather convoluted story of the disintegration of Equinor Trust Ltd, the vehicle for one Lachlan Williams, and examines the new owners of some of its companies. Williams also owned the Kiwi Deposit Building Society, but in 2013 … Continue reading
Posted in tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged Allanzia Holdings NZ, Daniel Reese, Denton Morrell, Eduard Patkevych, Equinor International, Equinor Trust, Fid-Elite Estate, Fid-Elite Estate NZ, Howard Lamplough, Lachlan Williams, Matthew Butterfield, Matthew Hitchman, Neil Smith, Nordeq Holdings NZ, Nordeq International, Suricata Holdings, Westport International Ltd
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V is for Vistra: but where is it based in New Zealand?
The Vistra Group is one of the major international trust and fiduciary firms, and appears many times in the Panama Papers. So not surprisingly it has a presence in New Zealand. The question is where, or perhaps, who represents Vistra’s … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged Colm Hanley, David Rudge, Diego Colombo, Fabrizio Patane, Garth Melville, Gordon Stewart, Holdentia AG, Luca Moretti & Max Spiess, Paul Joseph Watson, Rouisillions Investments (Chatham Trust), SMC Office SA, SMC Partners AG, SQR Trustees (NZ), Vistra (New Zealand) Trustees, Vistra Group, Vistra Trust Company (NZ), Walter Stresemann
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Bad Company: New Zealand links Irish directors with dodgy Swiss firm
This post follows on from the previous one about the use of Seychellois directors by an Irish trust firm, as initiated by the Melvilles in New Zealand. But this time it is the Pearse Trust that have assumed control of … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged Benjamin Prea, Bridgefield Nominees, Colm Hanley, David Bowles, Elm Park Management NZ, Frances Ann Gordon, Giuliana Castano, Global Trustees NZ, Ineeze Anette Anacoura, Javier Martin Vanella, Marcelo Nestor Ramos, Michael Gordon, Michael Joseph Dunne, P T Trustees NZ, Pearse Trust, Stephanie Gee, Swisser AG Trust NZ
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From Ireland to the Seychelles via Kakahi, New Zealand
Having mentioned the Seychelles briefly in the previous post, I will explore the links in more depth this time. The intention has been to begin to examine the many companies that have been created, and usually removed or passed on, … Continue reading
Angerona and some dodgy South Americans
This will be about the links between some of the other individual players in the New Zealand trust industry, and some Uruguayan lawyers. The focus will be mainly on the Angerona Group Trust (New Zealand) Ltd and one of its … Continue reading
Geoffrey Cone and the Costa Ricans
Geoffrey Cone no doubt considers himself the doyen of the trust industry in New Zealand, and its major international player. He has worked at the Russell McVeagh practice in Auckland, where tax-dodging schemes became an art form in the 1980s. … Continue reading
Francois Gillain, Finance Suisse, and Panama
Finance Suisse is a financial management company based in Switzerland, and it was set up by Roland K. Staub. Its website indicates that it has a New Zealand office, led by Francois Gillain, and a Panama office (with no officers … Continue reading
Intrust: London, Cyprus, Dubai & New Zealand
For a change I will look at a trust firm based in London, Intrust, with global reach in the offshore world, but not so much presence in the Panama Papers database. OK, so the Isle of Man branch does come … Continue reading
Strange brew: the world of Cone Marshall
The law firm of Geoffrey Cone and Karen Marshall is central to the foreign trust industry in Auckland, New Zealand. They are the lynchpin in the NZ Trustee Companies Association, the group of four trust firms that successfully lobbied to … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged Abacus Fiduciary, Alexandr & Nikolay Tchoukreev, Anchor Trustees, Cone Marshall Claire Cooke, Geoffrey Cone Karen Marshall, International Beverage Company, Julius Baer Trust, Kazakhstan, Nancy del Consuelo Bastidas Parra, Richbourne Foundation, Rothschild Trust, Standguard Nominees, Trident Trust
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