Seychelles Offshore On It's Death Bed As Lack Of Credible Policing Is Exposed

Steve Fanny kicked the bucket at the Ministry of Finance last month. Mr Fanny is famous for his involvement in the Seychelles Offshore sector as a CEO of Seychelles International Business Authority (SIBA). For years we watched Mr Fanny tell us where the offshore sector was, where it is going, with exuberance, only to now see that the Seychelles offshore is dying, because all these years Mr Fanny was at SIBA, not a single person or company has been brought to trial for criminally using offshore companies to commit illicit acts such as money laundering, drug trafficking, arms dealing, etc. Only one company Lotus offshore had its licence suspended and Zen Offshore. Lawyers involved in these offshore company registration businesses, still practice law.

Steve Fanny

4th Pillar Of Economy Dead
The single idea of establishing Seychelles as an offshore sector belongs to one man: Mr Paul B. Chow. Credit to you Mr Chow on this good idea, left in SPPF hands, has now gone to rot. On the outset of 1992-1993, Mr Chow worked diligently to convenience the SPPF that the offshore sector is a viable economic base for Seychelles to develop. He was right of course. In Bermuda, the offshore sector, run scrupulously, has afforded its people a per capita income of $77,000 per year. Impressive, indeed.

Hamilton, Bermuda

In Seychelles the offshore sector has been marred with money laundering allegations, mis-management, lack of transparency and lack of due diligence in the administration and monitoring of offshore companies by SIBA, mostly, under the reign of Mr Fanny. Sometimes, you need to think carefully, when you let a fast talker on SBC to brainwash the Nation.

SFP Exposes Over $17 Billion In Allegedly Laundered Money From Seychelles
While many went to sleep in the opposition parties of SNOUP, because there own players are involved in the offshore business, and they collect the crumbs from money laundering escapades, the SFP has exposed all that it can expose, to expose the Seychelles offshore sector for not abiding by international norms.

$2.5 Billion Laundered
It was Christopher Gill that exposed the missing $2.5 Billion that left Seychelles accounts, held by Seychellois citizens, and made there way into Swiss accounts. SFP is still diligently tracking these funds and is seeking the assistance of the Swiss  Central Bank to reveal all these transactions.

James Michel offshore account active since 2007

2000 Shell Bank Companies
It was SFP that exposed the 2000 shell companies responsible for laundering Russian Mafia money as much as $400 Million

SINALOA Drug Cartel-Seychelles Connection
It was SFP that exposed the laundering of SINALOA Mexican drug cartel company money with use of Seychelles companies possibly amounting to £1 billion or more.

Arms Trafficking and Seychelles Connection
Seychelles companies were exposed for attempted trafficking in arms from North Korea to Iran. Iran is the arch rival of the United Arab Emirates, home of Shiekh Kalifa. The irony of this shipment, is that it had surface to air missiles loaded on a C130 plane, that may or may not be used to kill Shiekh Kalifa in the UAE or in Seychelles, if the Middle East was brought to war. This is a concern of the UAE, which they never thought, that James Michel Administration, would allow Seychelles companies offshore to go unfettered in their actions, with the final outcome targerting UAE.

Obama Sends Alert On Seychelles
Even President Obama, USA has gotten into the act of exposing and attempting to bring some order to this offshore mess created by SPPF. He noticed that Stella Port- Louis, a Seychelles national turns up as nominee for over 200 shell companies. This Madam, is also involved in many of the above mentioned companies as a nominee. It is strange every political element in Seychelles has remained silent on this matter.

The culprit, Stella Port-Louis

Enter OECD Demands
If the lack of administration and over sight has destroyed the Seychelles offshore name, it is the call for oversight monitoring by the OECD that will restore credibility to Seychelles although it will now perhaps a lifetime. Thank you SPPF-PL. Mr Fanny can be hardly blamed in the long and short of it. You promoted him to Ministry of Finance and told us he did an excellent job at SIBA. So the buck stops on James Michel's table the greatest human being to grace Africa, according to People paper.

James Michel

OECD wants Seychelles to now implement Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS). Under the system, international business centres must submit a quarterly report to the OECD of offshore activities. If the country does not do so, it can affect the countries ability to borrow money overseas.

The Whole Suffers When Corruption Reigns
With pressure bearing down from OECD the implementation of SDDS will kill overnight the Seychelles offshore sector. This will affect arrivals for business in the country, it will affect hotels, taxi drivers, lawyers income will slump since they diverted from their traditional practice into offshore, corporate service companies will shut down and staff will be laid off. In a world, the entire country will now overnight, suffer from years and years, of unmonitored offshore companies that now been exposed to be part of money laundering, arms trafficking, drug cartel money washing, and so on.

Who To Blame?
Who to blame? PL is now blaming OECD for its measures, yet, it has signed its memorandum to comply. The SNOUP is jumping on this bandwagon to protect its lawyers, who are also guilty of encouraging money laundering practice in Seychelles offshore.
Blame can only rest on the leadership of the country, because the rot is so prolific. It will take serious leadership to navigate out of this quagmire, but for the next ten years, it is already too late.
We must all tip our hats to Mr Paul B. Chow, the real founder of the Seychelles Offshore sector. Without his effort back in 1992-1993, we would have never come this far, inspite of SPPF-PL royally screwing it all up.

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