A Look Behind the Shell Corporations
October 28th, 2013
In the third season of Showtime’s drama Homeland, the CIA is working to track the finances of a terrorist group through a maze of shell corporations and offshore accounts from Iran to Venezuela.
This isn’t just a Hollywood plotline. It is, unfortunately, all too real.
Terrorists, drug traffickers, corrupt politicians, and criminals easily move money around the globe every single day. They use shell corporations, which have no assets or operations and exist simply to conduct business transactions.
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