Moar on Aga Khan and his offshore company connections
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The Canadian government partnered up with this organization in 2004, sponsoring 16 global developmental initiatives worth more than $300 million.
Aga Khan is owner of an offshore company in the Isle of Man, Bravo Romeo, which was incorporated on Mar 27, 2000 and found in the Appleby Papers. Appleby is a law firm, with one of its specialties being offshore services. It is one of the law firms at the center of the Paradise Papers leak. According to the Offshore Leaks Database, he is linked to activities in France, Switzerland, and the UK. This offshore company is supposedly used for "yacht vessel ownership", according to Appleby's records. It is noted that Appleby also works for the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development S.A., a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN).
The address of Aga Khan as per Appleby data is Aiglemont, Gouvieux, 60270, France. This is the same address of contact address of Aga Khan Academies. Alan Abela is also linked to this address, who is the signatory for offshore company One Thirty Nine Limited and The William Frith Trust in Bermuda. One Thirty Nine Limited is the owner of the helicopter that flew Trudeau and his family from Nassau to Bell Island in 2016. This helicopter was model AB139 with serial number 31012 and was subsequently re-registered in Bermuda in 2010 as N-139AK in the name of the Wells Fargo Bank aircraft trust. It is reported that plane spotters note that it is the only helicopter they regularly see around the airport in Nassau. If there are any PF experts here that can do some digging, that would be awesome.
Under a FOI request by CBC, Privy Council technician Brad Cotten also visited the island with Trudeau. A handwritten notation on the accommodation expenses for the technician was remitted to Lexthree Ltd., incorporated in the Bahamas. Its three directors - James Galbraith, Alan Abela and Jane Piacentini-Moore - also have ties to Aga Khan. Abela is the same individual that is the signatory for One Thirty Nine Limited. Abela and Piacentini-Moore are listed as directors of the Luxembourg-registered company Marine Promotion Services S.A.', which also included the Aga Khan as a director in documents filed in 2011. The registered address of Marine Promotion Services leads to a law services firm. In a 2016 photo, Piacentini-Moore was listed as the head of international financial affairs for the Ismaili Imamat, the Aga Khan's religious office.
Today, Abela and Piacentini are on the Board of the Aga Khan Foundation in UK, Canada, and US; all its other members are Aga Khan family decedents.
Aga Khan IV (current Aga Khan) breeds 800 thoroughbred horses in stud farms of Ireland and France, has controlling stakes in Pakistan's Habib Bank, possess plantations in Kenya, a chain of luxury hotels, private jets, walled estate in Chantilly, France. Forbes estimates his wealth to be $800M but there are multiple accounts of his wealth to be more than $15 billion.
The Aga Khan's father also owned a great amount of real estate. He owned an Apartment overlooking the East River in New York, a manor house outside Dublin, Ireland, a mansion in Bois de Boulogne in Paris, Chateau d'horizon on the French Riviera, a villa on the Normandy coast and another villa on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. He often hosted grand parties in these houses.