
“It all went smoothly, until modern information technology made it possible to store large amounts of data on small storage devices that could easily be taken out of the country. That changed everything. In the spring of 2000, the public prosecutor’s office in the western German city of Bochum received a CD containing information about a friend of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl whose clients included Princess Soraya, the second wife of the late shah of Iran, and former German show jumper Paul Schockemöhle. A new business model had been created: the trade in tax data CDs.”
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