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Category Archives: Panama Papers
All above board?: Cone Marshall and the Rothschild Trusts
This post follows on from the previous one, looking at the Swiss connections to New Zealand companies. But this time the focus will be on the Cone Marshall firm in Auckland, the leaders of the trust industry in New Zealand, … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, Uncategorized
Tagged Casuarina Ltd (Caymans), Cone Marshall, Geoffrey Cone, KFS Nominees (BVI), Peter Chadney, Redlion/Redshield Holdings, Rothschild Trust (Geneva), Rothschild Trust (Schweiz) AG, Serge Meili, Simone van Graffenried Simperl, Stefan Liniger, ZRH Nominees (BVI)
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Bachmann Trust Overdrive: Guernsey home, Swiss directors, and New Zealand companies
I’m going back to the Swiss links with New Zealand, but this one is rather complicated by name changes at the European end, and administrators being shuffled in Auckland. This involves the Bachmann Trust Company, originally located in Guernsey, with … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, Portcullis Trustnet, Uncategorized
Tagged Ardel Trust Company (Suisse), Asiaciti/Graeme Briggs, Bachmann Trust Co, Beau HLB, BTC Nominees SA, Fidenter Trustees Ltd, Geoffrey Clifford Williams, Jonathan Kirby, Martin John Pugh, Ronald Alfred Beau, Thalassa Trust Services (NZ), Veritatis Trustees Ltd
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The Spanish connection to the South Pacific
This is a quick look at how some prominent Spanish citizens, and their families, have been using Mossack Fonseca for trusts and shell companies in the South Pacific. There is a now familiar New Zealand link, via the Orion Trust … Continue reading
Equity Trust, the TMF Group, and the search for Global Unity’s pension funds
In this post I will be looking at the TMF Group, and who is behind it, but not so much what it does in New Zealand. It certainly has a branch office in Auckland, New Zealand. This will continue the … Continue reading
Posted in Commonwealth Trust Ltd, Panama Papers, tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged Brumby House, Equity Trust/CTL, Equity Trustees NZ, Federick van Tuyll, Global Pensions Trustees NZ, Global Unity Pensions Ltd, Insinger Brumby Trust Labuan, Insinger de Beaufort Trust NZ, John Hart, Ken Whitney & Ian Ross, Labuan, TMF Group, TMF Trustees NZ, Tropicana Ltd/Paroli, Wai Bun Wong
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Anchor and some Swiss Virtues: Fiduciaries or Frauds?
In this post I will be looking once again at Anchor Trustees, and some of their longstanding commercial relations with Swiss trust or fiduciary firms. We will see that they have connections with Panama, and also an Asian presence in … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, Portcullis Trustnet, Uncategorized
Tagged Anchor Trustees, Firecrest Trust Corporation, Gabrielle Patane, Invico AG, Juerg Roland Greter, Kendris AG, Matthias Seiler, Michael Reynolds, Mohammed el Husseiny, Nicholas Shepherd, Portcullis Trustnet (Singapore), Roger Hermann Frick, Rolf Schlegel, Stephane Masson, Ventura Frontier Investments, Virtue Trustees (NZ) Ltd, Walter Wehrli
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Truvest, Anchor Trustees, and a dodgy Brazilian or two
Anchor Trustees is at the heart of the trust industry in New Zealand, and have been around since 1996. Their website states that they were pivotal in introducing STEP into New Zealand, which is an international organisation that apparently has … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexey Predtechensky, Anchor Trustees, Balam Asset Ltd, David Frank Willis, Fabrizio Neves, Konfido/Corpura Trustees NZ, Mercedes Serruya Monteiro, Michael John Reynolds, Postalis Brazil, Rhiannon Investments Ltd, Truvest Trustees NZ, Truvest Trustees/Mahogany Trust
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Franco Croce: Geneva to Singapore to Auckland, via Panama
In this post I will be looking into an example of a Swiss firm that has a global outreach, and an Asian presence. I intend to be looking at a few of the trust companies that Asiaciti have on their … Continue reading
Posted in Panama Papers, tax havens, Uncategorized
Tagged A2S Pte ltd, Aprea Finance SA, Asiaciti NZ, Auckland Sourcing Trust Ltd, C & M Comprehensive Consulting SA, Claudio Maria Luigi Maimone, Croce & Associes, Croce & Associes Trust Ltd (NZ), Elide Foglia Frangi-Bricchi, EOF Services (Asia) Pte Ltd, Franco Croce, Gianluca Foglia, Leonardo Bordon, Lextray (Asia) Pte Ltd, Mario Frangi, Monaco Enterprises Ltd SA, NZ Sourcing Ltd, Portcullis Trustnet (Samoa) Ltd
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Linking John Hart with Virtus and looking over the Ramparts
I had a look at some of John Hart’s activities in Auckland in the previous post, when he was the local contact for London-based family financial planners, Nean Wealth Advisers. Their Forte Trust Company linked up with a number of … Continue reading
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