The Attorney General, Judge Frederick Werema.
Three
individuals out of the seven named in a leaked offshore data, who used
Tanzanian addresses to register companies, were agents acting and
facilitating some local leaders and businesspeople in illicit financial
deals.
The three, who had set up a web of firms, were
undercover offshore service providers being used as conduits of money
laundering, The Citizen can reveal today.
Mr Andre Schmid, Kenji Ibeto and Stuart MacDonald,
who used Dar es Salaam addresses – if judged by their names – are
either foreigners or Tanzanians by naturalisation.
According to details gathered by The Citizen, the
three individuals were planners and executers of offshore finances
acting on behalf of locals needing to transact illicit financial
outflows or money laundering without being detected.
Kenji Ibeto is a Japanese name, while Andre Schmid and Stuart Macdonald are European or American.
But, the facts that the individuals with these
names appear in the leaked offshore documents showing that they have
companies registered in Tanzania or have Tanzanian addresses show that
they were agents of offshore transactions.
To provide their services—the three individuals
registered companies in Tanzania, which they then used as a link that
connected their clients to the secret world of offshore banking.
For instance, Mr Ibeto registered a company called
Tanzania Tobing Tanzil, used as a link between various local
transactions and the offshore financial industry.
Mr Andre Schmid who uses the Plot 310A, Mikocheni
Off Garden Road as his address is listed as the director of A.I.E Ltd,
established in February 2006.
Mr Schmid through the A.I.E Ltd has a web of
another twelve offshore trusts and companies, which uses Portcullis
TrustNet Chambers of P.O. Box 3444 Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin
Islands, as permanent address.
The Citizen investigations further reveals that Mr
Stuart Hugh Macdonald, whose postal address is BOX 1192 Dar es Salaam
is listed as the shareholder of Lodge Solutions Ltd, a company
established in April 2005.
In another development, The Citizen reliably
established that a company called Tanzania Minerals Ltd, incorporated in
2006, with the postal address Box 1192 Dar es Salaam, also operated
different offshore entitie
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