Kaufman also said KPMG may have no legal obligation to tell the Isle of Man companies about the Justice Department request to preserve documents. He was also, for more than a decade, a director of an additional 23 shell companies linked to the KPMG tax dodge. Records show that most of the KPMG-linked shell companies involved in the offshore scheme began dissolving one by one after the CRA launched its probe in 2012. A lawyer for Tom Chan and his brother Caleb, pictured, said the Isle of Man shell companies were used for international philanthropy only. A federal inquiry into the KPMG Isle of Man tax dodge was abruptly halted in June 2016.

Source: CBC News May 31, 2017 09:00 UTC