UK DATA LEAK EXPOSES UBOS OF 400,000 SHELL COMPANIES
January 1st, 2020
Millions of documents leaked from UK-based corporate services firm, Formations House, have revealed the ultimate beneficial owners of some 400,000 secret offshore companies as well as the alleged criminal activities of some. The firm operates from a front office located at 29 Harley Street, in central London, with back office support reportedly coming from Pakistan. The “#29Leaks” files were leaked to transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) then passed on to journalists, mainly linked to the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting ...
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