sentences:  Although it was reported that Bono's stake was valued at approximately US$ 1 billion in February 2012, a 2015 article in "Forbes" stated that this estimate was based on an incorrect attribution of shares.Bono was among those cited in the Paradise Papers after he was named as a passive minority investor in Nude Estates, which bought a shopping mall in Lithuania in 2007 and transferred ownership to Nude Estates 1 in Guernsey in an apparent attempt to avoid tax.Bono welcomed the subsequent investigation by the Lithuanian tax authority, stating that he welcomed transparency and had personally campaigned for it.