Money · The paper trail
The shell companies that vanished overnight
Twelve firms shared one mailbox and one accountant. Within a week of our questions, all twelve were dissolved.
By R. Mehta · Valletta · · 9 min
Twelve companies were registered to the same third-floor mailbox over eighteen months. They filed no accounts, employed no one, and moved money between each other in steady, rounded sums.
all twelve were dissolved within seven days of knowless contacting their registered agent.
A company that exists only to receive and forward money is doing exactly one job.
Dissolution erases a company, but not the records it leaves behind. The filings remain public, and they are reproduced here in full.
Methodology
knowless obtained incorporation and dissolution records from the national registry and mapped the transfers using filings the companies themselves submitted.
Corporate registries · Malta · Money