Offshore

How did Google and Apple make billions in tax revenue... vanish? Our trusty pal, The Offshore Accountant, takes us into the Bermuda Triangle, where companies harnessed its spooky powers to make themselves richer.

On this ep: We’re on the high seas of the offshore world. Why are people – that is, rich people – throwing up flags for the wrong countries on their damn boats and how does this help them get richer and avoid rules (like, say, paying people and being held responsible for major ecological disasters)? How are countries capturing luxurious boats secretly owned by Russian oligarchs?

How do the mega-wealthy get away with hoarding billions worth of art in maximum-security, tax-free vaults? Free ports are something out of a movie – like the giant set piece in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet -- but they're all too real.

How did a billionaire sheik secretly divorce his supermodel wife, marry someone else, and then try to get out of paying millions in alimony? He went to the offshore, of course, and he used the most expensive lifeboat there is: diplomatic immunity.