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Not sure. Singapore has a reputation as a tax haven, but also a reputation for being squeaky clean.

(But that's perhaps a different kind of tax haven than the British Virgin Islands are?)

It's the opposite. Unimpeachable officials enforcing favorable tax law protects depositors.

Just because one thinks "hiding money" and "corruption" are both bad doesn't mean that both are and that both go together.

Public affairs are separated from business. This was about whatever money had to be spent on X and were directed to Y via corruption