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Entrepreneurs are starting companies every day.

A bank in Paris held accounts of companies controlled by him, one of which was used to buy the art, and American banks, well, they funneled 73 million dollars into the States, some of which was used to buy that California mansion.

He used shell companies.

This engine, well, it's driven by our international banking system, by the problem of anonymous shell companies, and by the secrecy that we have afforded big oil, gas and mining operations, and, most of all, by the failure of our politicians to back up their rhetoric and do something really meaningful and systemic to tackle this stuff.

And HSBC, well, we know that HSBC bankrolled the region's largest logging companies that were responsible for some of that destruction in Sarawak and elsewhere.

And then there's the problem of anonymous shell companies.

Well, we've all heard about what they are, I think, and we all know they're used quite a bit by people and companies who are trying to avoid paying their proper dues to society, also known as taxes.

But what doesn't usually come to light is how shell companies are used to steal huge sums of money, transformational sums of money, from poor countries.

In virtually every case of corruption that we've investigated, shell companies have appeared, and sometimes it's been impossible to find out who is really involved in the deal.

It found that over 70 percent of those cases had used anonymous shell companies, totaling almost 56 billion dollars.

Now many of these companies were in America or the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and Crown dependencies, and so it's not just an offshore problem, it's an on-shore one too.

You see, shell companies, they're central to the secret deals which may benefit wealthy elites rather than ordinary citizens.

One striking recent case that we've investigated is how the government in the Democratic Republic of Congo sold off a series of valuable, state-owned mining assets to shell companies in the British Virgin Islands.

And we were alarmed to find that these shell companies had quickly flipped many of the assets on for huge profits to major international mining companies listed in London.

And how about the oil, gas and mining companies?

Now let's go back to the oil and mining companies, and let's go back to Dan Etete and that $1 billion deal.

In 1999, when Global Witness called for oil companies to make payments on deals transparent, well, some people laughed at the extreme naiveté of that small idea.

Two thirds of the value of the world's oil and mining companies are now covered by transparency laws.

Think of all the years reformers of various stripes have tried to get rid of corruption in Russia, for instance, or how hard it is to re-regulate the banks even after the most profound financial crisis since the Great Depression, or even how difficult it is to get the big multinational companies, including those whose motto might be "don't do evil," to pay taxes at a rate even approaching that paid by the middle class.

These are among the world's most admired, most beloved, most innovative companies.

That means that our countries are getting richer, our companies are getting more efficient, but we're not creating more jobs and we're not paying people, as a whole, more.

And when Nuna was founded, they used data to serve the health needs of lots of workers at large companies.

So, we're going to put up some slides of some of your companies here.

RB: No, I mean, I think I learned early on that if you can run one company, you can really run any companies.

I mean, companies are all about finding the right people, inspiring those people, you know, drawing out the best in people.

CA: Your companies have had incredible PR value out of these heroics.

This is MobSoft, one of the companies that this cybercriminal gang owned, and an interesting thing about MobSoft is the 50-percent owner of this posted a job advert, and this job advert matched one of the telephone numbers from the code earlier.

Apollo employed around 400,000 people and demanded the collaboration of 20,000 companies, universities and government agencies.

So there is a parochial explanation in Silicon Valley, which admits that it has been funding less ambitious companies than it did in the years when it financed Intel, Microsoft, Apple and Genentech.

So now, for lobbyists and others who are very keen to attend these hearings but don't like to wait, there are companies, line-standing companies, and you can go to them.

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