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Friday, July 11, 2014

A who's who of Britain's legal offshore tax avoidance

Some of the UK's most prominent business people appear in Jersey's offshore history of legal avoidance

The founder of the successful Luton-based budget airline, who no longer runs it. He is listed as a Jersey bank client. Inherited wealth from Greek-Cypriot shipowner father. He has described himself as "British by birth". His spokesman says, however: "Sir Stelios is not and never has been resident in the UK for tax purposes. He has been a Monaco resident since the mid-1980s (ie when he was a teenager) when his family relocated there from Athens."

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