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On an early morning in November, a couple boards a private plane bound for Geneva, flying into a storm. Soon after, it simply drops off the radar, and its wreckage is later uncovered in the Alps. Among the disappeared is Matthew Werner, a banking insider at Swiss United, a powerful offshore bank. His young widow, Annabel, is left grappling with the secrets he left behind, including an encrypted laptop and a shady client list. As she begins a desperate...
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"How do the rich keep getting richer, while dodging the long arm of the law? From playboy billionaires avoiding taxes on private islands to Russian oligarchs sailing away from sanctions on their superyachts, the ultra-rich seem to live in a different world from the rest of us. That world is called offshore. Hidden from view, the world's ultra-rich can use offshore finance to escape tax obligations, labor and environmental safety regulations, campaign...
6) American kleptocracy: how the U.S. created the world's greatest money laundering scheme in history
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2021.
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"A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, Casey Michel's American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known. "An indefatigable young American journalist who has virtually cornered the international kleptocracy beat on the US end of the black aquifer." -The Los Angeles Review of Books...
7) Quicksand
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Artisan Home Entertainment
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[2004]
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English
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The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013
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English
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This book provides a comprehensive and detailed understanding and analysis of banking businesses and their worldwide operations. Banks have become 'too big to fail', and too complex-to-manage in their inbound and outbound operations. This book gives the relevant details, approaches, and answers to these complex financial issues.
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Economic and policy analysis working paper volume 2004-1
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Comptroller of the Currency
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[2004]
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English
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