Offshore & Investigations

Offshore finance, asset recovery and the paper trails behind them.

• How £266 million of criminal cash went through the gold trade

  How a Bradford scrap jewellery firm and a Hatton Garden front company laundered £266 million through gold, and what compliance teams should take from it.

• When the paper trail is rewritten: what the Deloitte Cyprus reporting means for recovery work

  Reporting alleges Deloitte Cyprus backdated records for Abramovich companies. Why proving when a document existed matters for recovery work.

• Hong Kong’s $2.9 Trillion Turning Point

  Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the largest cross-border wealth centre, just as Beijing seeks more visibility over mainland money moving offshore.

• China Turns the Light on Offshore Trusts

  China’s July 2026 tax rules put offshore trusts, effective control and economic benefit under sharper scrutiny, as OffshoreAlert turns to capital flight.

• The Maharaja of Faridkot: A forged will and a three-decade battle over a reported US$2.4 billion royal estate

  A disputed 1982 will, later declared forged by the courts, set off three decades of litigation over the Faridkot royal estate in southern Punjab.

• London’s Warning Shot: When a G7 Sovereign Loses the Bond Market’s Confidence

  As UK gilt yields rose to levels last seen in the late 1990s, markets sent Westminster a quiet warning. This was a repricing of credibility, not panic.

• Venezuela and the Dollar: The Real Price of Disobedience

  This piece looks at how the petrodollar works, why Venezuela’s oil sales outside the US dollar mattered, and what happens to countries that defy it.