British Virgin Islands News

Photograph: Mike Egerton/Empics Sport Birmingham City will be asked by the Premier League to provide documentation to establish who now controls Grandtop International Holdings, the company used by Carson Yeung to buy the club only last month.

The English Premier League is ready to request documentation that details the specifics on who controls the company that Carson Yeung used to purchase Birmingam City Football Club last month, The Guardian reports.

Golden Green Enterprises Limited , a leading China-based specialty precision cold-rolled steel producer, today announced that the Company will report its third quarter 2009 financial results before the market opens on Friday, November 20, 2009.

The identity of the person or persons who bought 24 luxury units at 39 Conduit Road remains shrouded in mystery.

Electropop artist Owl City - a.k.a. singer-songwriter Adam Young - has begun a second stint at the top of the US singles chart.

's 39 Conduit Road, including a HK$438.94 million record-setting duplex last month, were bought by companies registered in the British Virgin Islands - all using the same law firm.

FORMER president of the European Parliament Pat Cox is a director of an offshore company registered in Ireland.

The number is published in one of the hacienda reports which has discovered accounts in Switzerland, Andorra and the British Virgin Islands, and makes up part of the case summary.

The Treasury has hit back at claims that London is one of the most secretive and underhand financial centres in the world, defending its "transparent" tax system.

Prosecutors in the British Virgin Islands say a Rhode Island man convicted of killing his wife while scuba diving should serve at least 25 years in prison before getting parole.

You're a billionaire but you don't want anyone, least of all the taxman, to know.

The UKa s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have been told to improve standards of regulation, and find new methods of raising tax.

LONDON: Offshore financial centres in the British Caribbean should consider introducing more taxes to shore up their increasingly shaky finances, according to a UK Government-commissioned report.

Britain's crown dependencies and overseas territories are being advised in a new report to ensure they meet international standards on taxation and financial regulation and to take a fresh look at their tax structures.

A German man who founded the hedge fund group K1 was arrested by police amid an investigation into possible fraud that may total some euro200 million , prosecutors said Thursday.

Michael Foot's review of British offshore financial centres has been published. MICHAEL FOOTa S Review of British offshore financial centres was published this morning.

K1 Group , a German hedge fund firm, is being investigated for possibly foisting about $400 million in losses on several major banks, Bloomberg reports.

A former client of UBS AG who cooperated in a probe of the Swiss bank's ties with wealthy Americans hiding money overseas was sentenced to one year house arrest and a fine on Wednesday for a multimillion-dollar tax evasion scheme involving a British Virgin Islands corporation.

A jury in the British Virgin Islands has found a Rhode Island man guilty of murder after his wife drowned during a 1999 scuba-diving trip.

David Swain, center, arrives in handcuffs escorted by prison guards to the High Court building in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, on the first day of his trial in the drowning of his wife Shelley Tyre in March 1999 while the couple was diving on the last day of a Caribbean getaway.