Portcullis TrustNet
Portcullis TrustNet is a group of companies that provides offshore finance services. It is the largest trust company in Asia and one of the largest in the world. The company became known to a broad public in 2013 in the wake of the " offshore leaks ".
Surname
Portcullis is the (originally the French porte coulissante declining) English term for a portcullis .
history
The forerunner of the group of companies was the Portcullis Group , which was founded around 1990 by Mike Mitchell, a lawyer from New Zealand. In a very short time Portcullis grew and founded branches around the world. In 2004 the company took over the TrustNet Group and was renamed Portcullis TrustNet. The Portcullis Group has a total of 16 branches, including in Samoa , Mauritius and the Seychelles . According to the company, the business focus is on Asia, with the main company headquarters in Singapore.
On the Portcullis website, David Chong presents himself as a trust manager, tax advisor, lawyer, asset manager and bank advisor. Portcullis TrustNet provides tailor-made solutions for moving wealth into tax havens. The branch of Deutsche Bank in Singapore brokered 308 offshore companies through the Portcullis TrustNet Group . In addition to Deutsche Bank, the major Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS are business partners of Portcullis as well as the management consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers , Deloitte and KPMG .
In 2004 the company took over the TrustNet Group and was renamed Portcullis TrustNet .
The company became known to the public in 2013 through the unauthorized publication of millions of tax-related documents.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Portcullis TrustNet ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the company website. (Accessed April 2013)
- ↑ Stefan Schultz: Offshore Leaks: Data leak shakes tax havens worldwide . In: Der Spiegel from April 4, 2013.
