http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/magazine/how-to-hide-400-million.html

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This darkness shields the tax-averse businessman and the criminal alike. Dictators use the offshore system to loot their own countries. Drug lords use it to launder money. As Gabriel Zucman, a University of California economist and an offshore expert, puts it: “They use the same banks, they use the same incorporation agents to create shell companies, they send money in the same ways.”

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If a disgruntled wife with one good lawyer is able to unravel this guy's web of shell corporations and trusts, then why not apply the same approach to go after all the billions embezzled by Chavez & co.?

Venezuela: the wealth of Chavez family exposed (2013)

$84 Mn Embezzlement Case Underscores Venezuela Corruption (2014)

Socialism: The Most Corrupt Path to Great Wealth (2015)

Venezuela ex-ministers seek probe into $300 billion in lost oil revenue (2016)

Venezuelan papers barred from mentioning corruption allegations against Hugo Chávez's brother (2016)

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