{"id":62655,"date":"2017-11-09T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T21:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=62655"},"modified":"2017-11-09T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:18:05","slug":"paradise-papers-detail-retired-general-wesley-clarks-time-with-amaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/paradise-papers-detail-retired-general-wesley-clarks-time-with-amaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise Papers Reveal Details of Retired General Wesley Clark\u2019s Time with Amaya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Democratic<\/a> presidential candidate General Wesley Clark is one of the many influential individuals named in the recent Paradise Papers leak, with information about his time as a director for Amaya (now known as the Stars Group)<\/a> showing up in the database of information examined by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).<\/p>\n

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General Wesley Clark, seen here at an undated Pentagon briefing, is one of the high-profile names that appears in the recently leaked Paradise Papers expos\u00e9. Clark was a board member for Amaya (now Stars) Group from 2010 to 2017. (Image: R.D. Ward\/ climateandsecurity.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The information revealed in the data does not contain any earth-shattering revelations against Clark, who once served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO and also oversaw Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War. However, it does shed some more light on his time with what was then Amaya, including some concerns that were brought up about his involvement with the online poker giant.<\/p>\n

Clark Seen as \u2018Politically Exposed Person\u2019<\/h2>\n

The Paradise Papers reveal that Amaya\u2019s board of directors retained the services of offshore law firm Appleby on the Isle of Man in 2014. The company wanted to incorporate a new subsidiary known as Amaya Intellectual Holdings Ltd., which would hold the intellectual property of the Amaya Group.<\/p>\n

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In May 2015, Appleby\u2019s New Business Committee noted that Clark was a director of Amaya, a position he had held since 2010. While Clark did not hold a controlling interest in the firm, the committee still recommended that Amaya supply additional documentation on him, as he was seen as a \u201cpolitically exposed person\u201d (PEP).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Amaya\u2019s internal counsel complied with the request, and there is no indication that anything troublesome was found as a result of this process. In May 2017, Clark announced that he would be resigning from the board of directors after having served for seven years.<\/p>\n

Past Board Memberships Questioned<\/h2>\n

But while this new information didn\u2019t reveal any skeletons in Clark\u2019s closet, that doesn\u2019t mean his time with Amaya wasn\u2019t without any controversy. A 2015 report from Bloomberg<\/em> noted Clark\u2019s history of joining boards of many public companies, including a large number of so-called \u201cpenny-stock\u201d firms, most of which lost value while he was on them. That was enough for one financial expert to say his appearance on any board of directors was \u201ca huge red flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it wouldn\u2019t be Clark who caused controversy at Amaya, however. In 2016, former Amaya CEO David Baazov and other executives were charged with insider trading by Quebec securities regulators. Baazov is expected to face trial this month, in what has become Canada\u2019s largest-ever investigation into insider trading. Clark has not been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to the case.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Paradise Papers include approximately 13.4 million documents from two major offshore service providers, Appleby and Asiaciti Trust, as well as from the company registers of 19 tax havens. The documents were obtained by German newspaper S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/em>, the same publication that acquired the Panama Papers in 2016.<\/p>\n

The newspaper then contacted the ICIJ, which has been investigating the documents since their release. A dive into the massive data dump has found references to offshore financial dealings by some of the world\u2019s most influential people and corporations, including Queen Elizabeth II, individuals close to President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and companies such as Facebook, Apple, Nike, and Walmart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Democratic presidential candidate General Wesley Clark is one of the many influential individuals named in the recent Paradise Papers leak, with information about his time as a director for Amaya (now known as the Stars Group) showing up in the database of information examined by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). 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