And, if it were possible to abolish shell companies, what difference would that make? Could he imagine what his job would be like if he could easily find out who owned all the property he ended up investigating? “It would probably cut the investigative time by half, which is huge,” he said. “We would be able to concentrate our efforts on putting the pieces together, rather than trying to find the pieces. Right now, we spend most of our time trying to find the pieces. By the time we’re ready to put the pieces together, all sorts of things happen. Sometimes, by the time we get the information,
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