The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Tory tax-dodgers are no friends of ours
A view over Panama City, home of tax-dodging money
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BIG-MONEY Tory donor Douglas Barrowman has just moved his tax avoidance business from the Isle of Man to Panama.
Multimillionaire Barrowman is the founder and chairman of the Knox Group, which offers “financial, investment and property management services” to the very well-off.
The Scottish Daily Herald reported this month that one of the Knox Group firms, called Watchdale Ltd, has been moved from the Isle of Man to Panama — that is to say, from offshore to very offshore.
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