The thing is that: using offshore tax havens via an expensive law firm as a private person is not illegal <i>per se</i>, but in 99.9% of cases is used to hide illegal activities - most odiously straight-out looting of a country&#x27;s public finances by officials (like in Russia), but also pedestrian crimes against the public like tax evasion or receiving bribes, or the fraudulent hiding of assets from civil affairs like bankruptcy or divorce proceedings.