A BBC Panorama documentary on the sale of ‘corporate anonymity’ and access to offshore tax havens, scheduled for broadcast last Monday, has been re-scheduled for Monday, 26 November.
‘Undercover reporters discover a world that specialises in secrecy, sells services which bend and breach UK law, is happy to help tax dodgers and even turns a blind eye to crime,’ the BBC website said.
David Leigh, The Guardian’s investigations editor, tweeted on Sunday: ‘Starting Monday, The Guardian will name the names behind Britain’s offshore companies.’
'The existence of an extraordinary global network of sham company directors, most of them British, can be revealed,' The Guardian website reported on Sunday evening.
'The UK government claims such abuses were stamped out long ago, but a worldwide joint investigation by the Guardian, the BBC's Panorama and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has uncovered a booming offshore industry that leaves the way open for both tax avoidance and the concealment of assets,' the report said.
The BBC usually chooses the last possible moment to confirm what is airing on Panorama each week, The Guardian noted as it reported on 13 November that a programme about the Barclay brothers, owners of the Daily Telegraph, was now ‘back on’ after being deferred by the former BBC director general George Entwistle.
A BBC Panorama documentary on the sale of ‘corporate anonymity’ and access to offshore tax havens, scheduled for broadcast last Monday, has been re-scheduled for Monday, 26 November.
‘Undercover reporters discover a world that specialises in secrecy, sells services which bend and breach UK law, is happy to help tax dodgers and even turns a blind eye to crime,’ the BBC website said.
David Leigh, The Guardian’s investigations editor, tweeted on Sunday: ‘Starting Monday, The Guardian will name the names behind Britain’s offshore companies.’
'The existence of an extraordinary global network of sham company directors, most of them British, can be revealed,' The Guardian website reported on Sunday evening.
'The UK government claims such abuses were stamped out long ago, but a worldwide joint investigation by the Guardian, the BBC's Panorama and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has uncovered a booming offshore industry that leaves the way open for both tax avoidance and the concealment of assets,' the report said.
The BBC usually chooses the last possible moment to confirm what is airing on Panorama each week, The Guardian noted as it reported on 13 November that a programme about the Barclay brothers, owners of the Daily Telegraph, was now ‘back on’ after being deferred by the former BBC director general George Entwistle.
