Bring back Coster (so he can be fired into the sea)!

Wait also the second one is not a slide it's just a straight up archer tower??

It's the three extra chainsaw-head tusks that really does it

Dropping the eggs from orbit

I think the technical term for that is peonage

"oh you're suing me sorry I don't own the house I live in lol", etc etc.

What I'm getting at is that the secrecy part is harder to achieve, and only relevant to... a very specific kind of cunt, and it's THOSE cunts who care about not having a register.

Marginally more nuance: often people put themselves as trustees, or are named directors of the companies owned by their trust (ie. Not hiding at all).

Sometimes the distance is used for "not letting my son's dirty golddigger wife get her hands on my money" kind of shit, sometimes for...

In practice, the ways in which this is problematic is pretty clear, and the proposal has been rattling around for a long time, and it's always not getting done for.. reasons.

www.interest.co.nz/business/129...

Conceptually, trusts aren't really the same as businesses. Companies have to be publicly registered so they can act as entities. But trusts are really a settlor giving assets to a trustee to hold in trust - a direct contract, not (conceptually) involving the state.

Buuut...

Which is to say, with things like the Bates story and similar examples, There are Ways.

Which is to say, There are Ways I Specifically Spent the Last Decade Building That Was Specifically Used in This Case.

No, but there are often trustee companies and lawyers who act as trustees owners of land/companies, and you can find those, and through the transaction records you can often see the real owners (assuming they're not in full-on stealth mode, which is actually uncommon)