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kilor said:the neobank must see a connection between the owner of UK LTD and the person who creates the account, here there will be a mismatch ?
Hard to say without the full details and order of operations.
In general, money laundering today is nearly impossible for a person to get away with nowadays. But an organized group of people with a large supply of identities can probably set up a network of companies which, on their own, are small enough to draw attention. The key would be keeping those companies clean and separated.
This might be something that works for small businesses/clients but would fall apart once the amounts are high enough that in-depth SOF/SOW checks are performed.
kilor said:the "nominee owner", not sure if it is called this or it is intermediary will be held responsible for all activity in the company or not?
It depends on whether it's a regulated nominee or a criminal nominee setup. Regulated nominees are likely not legally liable as long as they can prove they have taken all reasonable steps to vet the UBO and any agreements signed.
Criminal nominees would be liable, since there would be no legal arrangements in place to the contrary.
kilor said:UK is not part of the EU any longer, he claim, it is the perfect place for none residence with debt to the tax auth. in any EU country to hide??
HMRC prosecutes anyone with a tax debt and wins by default in UK courts, but if we're talking about small debts it's unlikely they will have much success collecting from someone outside UK. But I wouldn't want to live in EU with a large tax debt in the UK and rely on lack of successful collection of debt.

