Baroness Jacqueline Van Zuylen who boasts of never to have worked stands accused of tax evasion and failing to declare income disguised as loans to support her lavish lifestyle while UK taxpayers carry her burden.
Financial Fraudster News Investigations can now reveal that in legal filings the tax dodging Baroness has in a sophisticated and premeditated act sought to avoid paying tax by taking loans in excess of £1million pounds from a trust of which her daughter is a beneficiary by disguising income received from the trust in the form of loans funnelled through sophisticated trust vehicles operated by managers who she has instructed to enable her to continue to evade her United Kingdom tax liabilities.
Financial Fraudster News Investigations has seen evidence that casts doubt on the assertions made by Baroness Jacqueline Van Zuylen that she was an 'unsophisticated investor' when she played a significant role in directing Rodney Whiston-Dew in demaning a series of loans to settle debts and to continue a lifestyle that was simply unsustainable.
Financial Fraudster News Investigations has seen evidence that the Baroness is the current lover of Baron Paul Myners who had previously provided financial support toward legal costs the former government official is attempting to distance himself from the allegations that the Baroness is a UK tax evader who will have great difficulty in explaining the complex and premeditated way in which she has failed to declare income to the exchequer, a criminal offence.
Once source said "It's widly regarded amongst many that she is using the case to shift the blame on to a man currently jailed hoping that he [Whiston-Dew] would be a walk over and be unable to mount a credible defence", it appears that this case may be the Baronesses 'waterloo' and if the tax dodging allegations are investigated and proven she could be behind bars too!
The Spendthrift Baroness who it is reported as to be spending trust funds at a rate of £200,000 per year is suing convicted criminal Rodney Whiston-Dew a solicitor and barrister for alleged fraud stating she knew nothing whilst taking out loan after loan to fund a lifestyle that is simply unsustainable and at all times in the knowledge that she was deliberately avoiding tax payments due.
In his defence to the action on behalf of himself and the company, Mr Whiston-Dew denies the Baroness' version of events and says he and the company were never involved in scamming her.
She had lost money on poor investments and was overspending on credit cards and overdrafts when they met, he claims. The trust, on the Caribbean island of Nevis, had been arranged to preserve what was left of her money.
At the same time, he was attempting to get her to 'rein in her extraordinary spending habits, which at the time exceeded £200,000 per annum,' he claims.
'At that rate of erosion of the Trust Fund, the capital would not last another decade,' he says.
Mr Whiston-Dew goes on to say he was 'called upon daily to deal with expenditures incurred by the Baroness including to landlords, travel agents, clothing suppliers, food suppliers, beverage suppliers, horse product suppliers, vehicle repairers, furniture suppliers (and)...horse acquisitions...
'The Baroness was very frequently travelling abroad, including involvement in horseriding expeditions and an interior design project in very remote parts of India, in east Africa, Italy, Holland and in the USA, leaving me to deal with ever-increasing calls from her bank. These became daily occurrences.
'The affairs of the Baroness and management of them was extremely time consuming,' he claims, adding that he 'expressed extreme frustration' to her 'over the issue of her continued exorbitant personal expenditures'.
Mr Whiston-Drew says the trust was established under the 'precise wishes and understanding' of the Baroness on the island of Nevis and the UK courts have no jurisdiction to deal with a case concerning funds held there.
He says he holds no funds for or on behalf of the Baroness, who is a discretionary beneficiary of the trust, but he says also owes more than £1m in loans to it.
The trustee of the fund is 'not obliged to return the trust fund to the Baroness and in fact would be in breach of trust by doing so under the laws of Nevis,' he claims.
He says he has 'received no enrichment whatsoever from the Baroness or the Trust but is owed substantial fees for the enormous time and trouble expended on the affairs of the Baroness over six years.'
Financial Fraudster News Investigations has asked Baroness Jacqueline Van Zuylennto comment.
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