The company declined to comment about its use of offshore entities yesterday.

Nonetheless, questions still linger about how Russian central bank funds were managed through an offshore entity known as Fimaco.

A.I.G. agreed to disclose any similar offshore entity in the future.

Some offshore entities are merely tax-reducing way stations.

But he acknowledged in an interview that about $2 million had moved into the Fishkin-Reid accounts from offshore entities.

Britain will simply become nothing more than an offshore corporate entity and Britain as a nation will cease to exist.

In the 1970s and 1980s corporate groups were known to form offshore entities for the purposes of "reinvoicing".

One could argue that US external aid statutorily cannot even take place without the formation of offshore entities.

"Received by a trust, domestic representatives of an offshore entity that remains, even to them, completely opaque."

"But equally, many banks were imprudent in their lending to offshore entities of Chinese organizations."