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VIENNA: Raiffeisen Bank International Chief Executive Herbert Stepic resigned yesterday in what he called an effort to spare his bank from negative publicity over personal property deals that triggered scrutiny by the lender and regulators.

Very few Australians will have heard of Burdekin Investments, one of the thousands of low-profile post-box companies that makes its home at Ugland House, a resort-style office building in George Town, the capital of Caribbean tax haven the Cayman Islands.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts -- St Kitts and Nevis Minister of Foreign Affairs Patrice Nisbett has signed Phase II of the Caribbean Challenge Initiative and committed the Federation to protect 20 percent of its marine and coastal environment by the year 2020.

The British Virgin Islands is a well respected and sophisticated jurisdiction for the establishment of trusts.

President of the Caribbean Congress of Labour , David Messiah, is urging trade unions to help establish a labour market information system within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States .

He cracked a billion-dollar fraud case for the Brazilian government and he is just back from Cairo where the World Bank sent him to help the Egyptian government track the millions the deposed Mubarak regime may have stolen and hidden offshore.

The government of the British Virgin Islands now has in place a total of 24 tax information exchange agreements , having signed its most recent agreement with the government of Canada on Tuesday.

Entertainment Wise reported on May 23 that Taylor Swift and Harry Styles will be going head to head at this year's Teen Choice Awards.

Austria's central bank is to investigate personal property deals by Raiffeisen Bank International's chief executive after media reports he had made use of front companies.

A Ukrainian lawyer and an economist are set to challenge a ruling that they were in contempt of court by defying a prohibition on the disposal of eastern European property linked to bankrupt ex-billionaire Sean Quinn.

Prosecutors are expanding their investigation into food and entertainment giant CJ Group to include additional suspicions of massive income tax evasion and illegal wealth transfer to chairman's children.

A trust is a legal relationship created when a person places assets under the control of another person for the benefit of beneficiaries or a specific purpose.

Prominent businessmen and their families are suspected of setting up paper companies overseas to dodge taxes at home.

International agency Oxfam says the world's wealthy have managed to hide away at least US$18 trillion in offshore havens where they pay no tax The Caymans and other British crown dependencies have been told to get their houses in order over their tax status.

In a bid to safeguard biodiversity and the Caribbean's tourism-based economy, regional political leaders and corporate executives will gather Friday on billionaire Participants are expected to announce various commitments to advance the "Caribbean Challenge," an initiative that is touted as the first comprehensive conservation endeavor in the ... (more)

A pensioner whose dream cruise was ruined when she fell ill following an outbreak of norovirus is taking legal action against the liner's owners.

Patsy Sue Ridenour Taylor, also known as "Casino Sue," passed away April 11, 2013, from a tragic highway accident.

The report provides data on key industry trends, market drivers and challenges for the British Virgin Islands insurance industry.

Russians pulled $9.7 billion in investments from Cyprus in the last 2 years, and moved their wealth to 'safer' offshore banking in Luxembourg, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the British Virgin Islands.