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Nearly 600 Thais have owned offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and other havens.

Politicians and billionaire business magnates are among the prominent Thais listed in secret documents as owners of offshore holdings in tropical tax havens.

The list includes the former wife of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a sitting senator, a former high-ranking defense ministry official, Forbes-listed tycoons, and a former government minister whose assets in the United States are frozen because of her alleged links to Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. 

Documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and examined by Bangkok-based news portal Isra show nearly 600 Thais owning offshore companies in overseas havens such as the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the Cook Islands.

Some of the entities owned by politicians have been previously self-declared under tough local anti-graft laws, but at least one may have escaped scrutiny from authorities.

Thai anti-corruption laws require all elected politicians and those holding political posts to reveal their wealth. Officials and their spouses are prohibited from holding more than 5 percent of shares in privately or publicly listed companies, and politicians must list their work positions, such as directorships of companies, going back five years from the time they take office.

The ICIJ unearthed details of the offshore holdings through an analysis of about 2.5 million files largely associated with two offshore services providers, Singapore-based Portcullis TrustNet and British Virgin Islands-based Commonwealth Trust Limited.

Among those who appear as clients in the data is Nalinee Taveesin, a former government minister who is currently Thailand’s international trade representative.

In 2008, she was designated as one of four “Mugabe regime cronies” by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

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