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No idea what UK company registration processes look like.

Possibly. You're not gonna get far moving your mountain of coin without the help of lawyers, accountants, investment bankers, banks, prime brokers etc.

...none of whom will touch you if you can't prove this stuff reasonably well.

As for people submitting straight up fraudulent info - rules don't stop people like that in the same way sternly telling a mugger that it's illegal won't stop them from taking your wallet. Checks & balances sure but beyond a certain level of illegality more rules achieve nothing.



Analysis by Global Witness shows 87,000 properties – 40% of them in London – are anonymously owned by firms registered in tax havens

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/201...


Would be curious what you (and the guardian) reckon "anonymous" means in this context?

Shareholder data for private companies aren't generally publicly searchable regardless of country...(hence the "private" part)




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