10 Canadians from the tax-haven data leak Disclosure of offshore financial records has opened up a secret world
Mario Aiello Age: 64
Hometown: Vancouver; now lives in Thailand.
Offshore company: Marai Investment Ltd. in Samoa, Maris Investment (BVI) Ltd. in the BVI
Bio: The controversial B.C. stock promoter has been involved in several companies that have come under scrutiny. He was named in an RCMP warrant in 2004 as part of an investigation into an alleged pump-and-dump scheme involving Silver Star Energy Inc., but no charges were ever laid. And the Vancouver Sun reported in 2011 that he was involved in a company called Supatcha Resources, whose stock rocketed up from a penny to 93 cents two months later before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a temporary trading halt. The leaked tax-haven documents show Aiello transferring $50,000 from an offshore stock-trading account in the Caribbean to Thailand in 2007, where the files link him to a beachfront development called the Villa Toscana.
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