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Who decided that keeping money in ‘paradise’ is a crime? We should all thank havens

11 November 2017

9:00 AM

11 November 2017

9:00 AM

Maybe we should blame John Grisham. In his breakthrough best-seller The Firm, the young lawyer Mitch, played by Tom Cruise in the movie, has to make regular trips to the Cayman Islands where the corrupt law firm he works for creates hundreds of shell companies for the assorted cast of money launderers, tax dodgers and gangsters who are its core client base.

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