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The Paradise Conspiracy

by Ian Wishart

A true-crime account of the winebox investigation

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A true-crime account of the winebox investigation

Ian Wishart’s account traces the network of allegations surrounding the winebox investigation, linking missing records and secret files to offshore finance, a New Zealand government bank, and international business dealings. The book frames its subject as more than a tax controversy: its reported terrain includes alleged fraud, corruption, extortion, arms dealing, espionage, and efforts to suppress an investigative television team’s findings. Spanning New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and offshore tax havens, it presents a wide-ranging narrative of political power, financial secrecy, and contested public disclosure.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in New Zealand political and financial investigations
  • True-crime readers drawn to espionage and alleged corruption
  • Those seeking an account of offshore finance and the winebox investigation

Themes

Financial secrecyPolitical corruption allegationsInvestigative journalismOffshore tax havensEspionage

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Book overview

A death, missing computer disks, a winebox full of secret files, a tax haven, alleged extortion, arms dealing, corruption, coverups and criminal fraud, billion dollar deals, kidnap attempts, espionage, secret military operations, death threats, break-ins, a maverick politician...and an investigative television team's battle to expose the truth Follow The Paradise Conspiracy on a journey to a country you never knew existed, that politicians would still have you believe doesn't exist, a place one diplomat called 'a dirty little country'. Using a New Zealand Government bank as their flagship, they sailed the seas of global high finance under a tax haven's Jolly Roger, their victims the taxpayers of an unsuspecting world. This is the story they spent two years and a million dollars trying to muzzle, but the biggest secrets are about to be told. The Paradise Conspiracy - the explosive true narrative behind the winebox investigation that embroiled New Zealand, Australia, the US, Japan, the UK and tax havens across the planet - from the award-winning journalist who cracked the winebox code - it doesn't read like a tax story, it reads like a crime story. --- The Paradise Conspiracy by Ian Wishart was a #1 bestseller in its home market and quickly spread around the world, notching up 40,000 copy sales and inspiring a movie, 'Spooked' WHAT THE CRITICS SAY: "It is the closest thing to a John Grisham novel, but it is the real thing" - Waikato Times "A Watergate-type tale" - NZ Listener magazine "Sensational stuff and hard to fault. Wishart is a professional" - The Republican
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