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ISIS – Islamic State – suspected link to NZ Companies Office Listings

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A website suspected of being created by the Middle Eastern terror group Islamic State has been registered to an office in Parnell, Auckland, close to the home of the Prime Minister John Key.

Website Khilafah.is was closed down by Iceland overnight as controller of the country’s suffix address name.

Documentation for the web listing shows it was registered to Suite 4551, 17B Farnham St, Parnell, Auckland.
Its owner is described as Azym Abdullah.

Managing Director of Private Box Ltd, Gareth Foster, of Porirua, told TV One News they do provide a mail drop service for Suite 4551 on 17b Farnham St, but said the website’s domain was registered to a Azym Abdullah, who is not a customer of Private Box.

“We will be working with authorities to identify what relationship this account has with the person or website in question (if any),” Mr Foster told TV One News.

On the New Zealand Companies Office listings, the Parnell suite is the registered office for at least 63 companies, including a number that have been struck off.

Under New Zealand’s company system, registration can be done on line with virtual offices providing a legal entity for mail drops.

It is not the first time New Zealand virtual offices and shell companies have been caught up in international security.

Full Story: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10613951/Islamic-State-site-linked-to-New-Zealand-office

Also see: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwi-postal-service-horrified-possible-link-isis-6105879

Money laundering, shell companies, criminal connections and porn

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The charges recently laid by the Companies Office against Lu Zhang for her alleged offences against s. 373 of the Companies Office Act 1993 – signals a new era of reform: a war against the abuse of the Companies Office register by unscrupulous company directors. By providing false residential and/or registered office addresses they seek to avoid full accountability to enforcement agencies, evade authorities and hide financial matters. Full credit to reporter Michael Field of Fairfax Media who broke the story about multiple shell companies operating out of an Auckland Queen Street building and their alleged links to illegal arms trafficking involving North Korea.

Criminal activities linked to prostitution and human trafficking, the international porn trade, drug and weapons trafficking, have all been linked to money laundering of the proceeds of crime.

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Money laundering, shell companies, criminal connections and porn

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The Society has learnt from a source today that the National Police Headquarters is hosting a conference this week in Wellington that is looking at the issues of money laundering and criminal connections within New Zealand, as well as overseas criminal links. A Police media spokesperson contacted has confirmed that the conference is not open to the public and that one of the areas that may be looked at in depth is the relationship between money laundering and crime, and shell companies. [Read more…]