The trail of cash payment from mysterious entities in a tax haven for the purchase of properties in various cities around the world is hardly a singular phenomenon. If anything, it is a growing trend. An investigation in November 2012 by The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists showed that ‘anonymous buyers are taking over more and more blocks of luxury housing, particularly in the capital [London]’. They were all using tax havens to route money. ‘In 2011 alone, more than £7 billion of offshore money flooded into potentially tax-exempt purchases of UK houses,
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