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http://www.moneymarketing.co.uk/regulation/three-jailed-in-4m-offshore-investment-scam/1050198.article Two men and a woman have been jailed for their part in a £4m offshore boiler room scam based in Spain and Ireland. Brian OBrien and Lynne D'Albertson controlled the operation from Sussex, through a firm called Secure Trade & Title, which acted as a supposedly secure funnel for share purchases.

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Two men and a woman have been jailed for their part in a £4m offshore boiler room scam based in Spain and Ireland. Brian OBrien and Lynne D'Albertson controlled the operation from Sussex, through a firm called Secure Trade & Title, which acted as a supposedly secure funnel for share purchases.

Some genuinely interesting points you have written.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/259213 A lot has happened to Cyprus over the past 12 to 18 months as the country found itself caught up in the conflagration of the Eurozone debt and banking crisis. As a result, some taxes have been raised on both individuals and companies, but, on the whole, Cyprus remains an attractive jurisdiction for holding companies.Cyprus is no longer an offshore jurisdiction in the strict sense of the word, but its tax regime,coupled with its location at the cross roads of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, an extensive network of double-tax treaties, its membership of the European Union and its sophisticated European business environment and stable economy mean that the island has become an ideal place to locate holding, trading and intermediary companies. Cyprus's taxation regime doesn't stand out particularly among its offshore competitors, butchanges to tax legislation approved in 2002 gave Cyprus the lowest rate of corporate tax in the EU at 10%. Cyprus has also adopted the EU's 'Code of Conduct' on 'harmful tax practices' and is placed on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) 'white list' of tax compliant jurisdictions and therefore has a reputational advantage over some of its offshore competitors. Cyprus was also rated as the most attractive tax regime in Europe (with the net attractiveness score of 90%) by a 2009 KPMG poll, ahead of Ireland, Switzerland and Malta. The Income Tax Act No. 118(I) of 2002 applied the 10% corporate tax rate to both 'offshore' and 'onshore' companies, although after a short transition period, this distinction has now been removed; as from January 1, 2003, an offshore company (IBC) no longer has a separate taxation status, and is taxed according to the same principles as a regular company. Thus, IBCs are now allowed to trade inside Cyprus. A pre-existing IBC which made an irrevocable commitment not to trade inside Cyprus until 2006 was able to claim the existi

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A lot has happened to Cyprus over the past 12 to 18 months as the country found itself caught up in the conflagration of the Eurozone debt and banking crisis. As a result, some taxes have been raised on both individuals and companies, but, on the whole, Cyprus remains an attractive jurisdiction for holding companies.Cyprus is no longer an offshore jurisdiction in the strict sense of the word, but its tax regime,coupled with its location at the cross roads of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, an extensive network of double-tax treaties, its membership of the European Union and its sophisticated European business environment and stable economy mean that the island has become an ideal place to locate holding, trading and intermediary companies. Cyprus's taxation regime doesn't stand out particularly among its offshore competitors, butchanges to tax legislation approved in 2002 gave Cyprus the lowest rate of corporate tax in the EU at 10%. Cyprus has also adopted the EU's 'Code of Conduct' on 'harmful tax practices' and is placed on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) 'white list' of tax compliant jurisdictions and therefore has a reputational advantage over some of its offshore competitors. Cyprus was also rated as the most attractive tax regime in Europe (with the net attractiveness score of 90%) by a 2009 KPMG poll, ahead of Ireland, Switzerland and Malta. The Income Tax Act No. 118(I) of 2002 applied the 10% corporate tax rate to both 'offshore' and 'onshore' companies, although after a short transition period, this distinction has now been removed; as from January 1, 2003, an offshore company (IBC) no longer has a separate taxation status, and is taxed according to the same principles as a regular company. Thus, IBCs are now allowed to trade inside Cyprus. A pre-existing IBC which made an irrevocable commitment not to trade inside Cyprus until 2006 was able to claim the existing low tax rate for the three years 2

A lot of of what you claim happens to be supprisingly accurate and it makes me wonder the reason why I had not looked at this with this light previously.

Cyprus is aiming to get a bailout of about €11.5bn from the other 16 countries that use the euro to recapitalise its troubled banks and pay its bills, officials said today. The sum is significantly less than what potential rescuers estimate it needs. Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly has repeatedly said that Cyprus needs around €4bn to cover expenses until 2016. But he has steadfastly refused to say how much would be needed for its banks - only that government estimates differ greatly from those of the international organisations it is currently negotiating a bailout with - the "troika" of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Two officials told the Association Press today that the finance ministry puts banks' needs at €5bn, while the troika puts them at €9bn and possibly more. Cypriot banks have lost billions on their Greek bond holdings and have large loan portfolios in the debt-ridden country. The key difference between Cyprus's and the troika's estimates is what constitutes a non-performing loan, with the troika laying out stricter terms. The Cyprus Central Bank has declined to disclose how much it would take for banks to shore up their capital base, saying only that their exact needs will be determined through a troika-supervised stress test expected to conclude in December when the government hopes to receive the first batch of bailout money as state coffers start to run dry. The country, the eurozone's third-smallest economy with a gross domestic product of around €18bn, originally approached the eurozone for aid in June. The Finance Ministry is also looking to incorporate into a bailout agreement a €2.5bn loan Cyprus secured from Russia last year when it was locked out of the international bond markets by prohibitively high interest rates. Cyprus has also asked Moscow for another €5bn. Overall, the Cypriot government bailout target represents almost two-thirds of the countr

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