Worldclear Limited, a banking clearing house based in Hamilton which is no longer operating, was able to set up and trade without breaking any rules, and denies it knew anything about what its more colourful clients were up to.
The big story of a tiny New Zealand company that's made front page news on a website exposing international organised crime and corruption.
An international collaboration and months of forensic investigation and fact-checking has helped a small Kiwi financial journalism website break a story involving a New Zealand company that moved massive amounts of money for multiple clients who were later convicted of financial crimes.
Worldclear Limited - a banking clearing house based in Hamilton which is no longer operating - was able to set up and trade without breaking any rules, and it denies it knew anything about what its more colourful clients were up to.
Those clients included a politically connected Belarusian oligarch, a UK citizen convicted as part of a large-scale European tax swindle, a Canadian-American guilty of wire fraud, and a Swedish national for whom there is still an international Red Notice out.
