Over 2,000 shell companies have directors aged 123 years or older, Moody's found. The oldest known human lived to 122
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Moody's found 21 million "red flags" in its an analysis of shell companies. One listed director — at 942 years old — would have been born in the 11th century.

Moody’s Analytics has found 21 million “red flags” associated with shell companies that could be used to enable financial crimes, from ancient directors to dubious addresses.

For instance, more than 2,200 companies have directors aged 123 years and above, despite the fact that the oldest known human lived to 122, said Richard Graham, a director at Moody’s Analytics, in research published Monday. One listed director — at 942 years old — would have been born in the 11th century.

  • @NucleusAdumbensEnglish
    14•10 months ago

    Though that wouldn’t explain the other odd things mentioned like the thousands of companies listing their address as the Egyptian pyramids, 1 guy holding thousands of roles at thousands of companies, companies listing only 1 employee that have billions in revenue, etc

    • @ohwhatfollyismanEnglish
      0•10 months ago

      it wouldnt, sure. and im not referring to those inconsistencies at all.

      when it comes the dates specifically observed in the article though, as anyone who’s worked with Excel will attest, date calculation errors cannot be ruled out until they are explicitly, well, ruled out.

      it very much is in the realm of possibility that all other data is accurate and date errors still manifest themselves.