During the Panama Papers episode, it was found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, tax evasion, and dodging international sanctions. The incident also highlighted the use of shell companies in facilitating high level financial crime. The scale of the episode was a shock as was the detail and meticulous planning it took to set this off using shell companies. A shell company is an inactive establishment used as a vehicle for probable financial crimes or kept dormant for future use in some other capacity. This company only exists only on paper and has no brick and mortar presence or employees. Identifying a shell company has been a constant struggle for the financial institutions and the approach has been evolving over the past years. In addition to using a shell firm, there is also widespread use of mirror trades in financial crime. A combination of shell companies and mirror trades originating...
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