Oregon senator probes Nevada businesses tied to Panama Papers
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Oregon senator probes Nevada businesses tied to Panama Papers
By Megan Messerly (contact)
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | 5:45 p.m.
Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske has been asked by the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee to detail her office’s oversight of more than 1,000 Nevada companies tied to the Panama Papers leak.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in a Tuesday letter, asked Cegavske to specify whether her office had ever audited any of the Nevada companies named in the papers and to generally describe the state’s oversight of registered agents. M.F. Corporate Services, a Nevada registered agent, has been linked to Mossack Fonseca, the Panamanian firm at the heart of the data leak.
“I have become increasingly concerned about the use of anonymous shell companies as vehicles for terrorist financing, tax evasion, and fraud targeting major government programs within the committee’s jurisdiction, such as Medicare,” Wyden wrote in the letter.
Wyden also asked that Cegavske provide any documents pertaining to the more than 1,000 entities, including any audits her office had conducted.
Read more: http://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/may/10/oregon-senator-probes-nevada-businesses-tied-to-pa/
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