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HSBC leak reveals blns from C'bbean, including VI, stashed in Switzerland
WASHINGTON, USA - The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released a report this week revealing billions of dollars held in nearly 60,000 internal Swiss bank documents from 2006 to 2007 leaked by whistleblower Hervé Falciani, a former employee of HSBC in Switzerland, said a report from Caribbean News Now.
ICIJ article brands VI as 'forbidden city'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) says the Virgin Islands (VI) stands near the top of the list of the world’s most secretive tax havens and that the Territory may have harboured some 40 percent of the world’s total offshore registered companies.
IFC pleads with local media for support amid “leaks”
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- “Be objective in your reporting and not be with the journalists who have an agenda against offshore [industries], was the plea made by Executive Director of the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre, Elise Donovan at a meeting with journalists and talk show hosts earlier today April 12, 2013.
ICIJ report suspicious; attack on local economy – Cromwell Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Talk show host, Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka has come out swinging in defence of the integrity of the Virgin Islands Financial Services sector, describing the recent heat on the Territory as a suspicious attack on the economy.
Caribbean Go-Between Provided Shelter For Far-Away Frauds, Documents Show
By ICIJ
British Virgin Islands firm kept doing business with shady characters even as regulators prodded it to obey anti-money-laundering laws

