The corporate veil is not a protection against e.g. law enforcement (unless you hire smart and expensive lawyers :-D) but is a pretty good protection against casual busybodies.
You can look up the ownership of a company on the internet. At least you can where I live.
I would be surprised if the people-search-engine's wouldn't include US corporate ownership.
It might be that living in Slovakia gives him advantages in that regard. A quick search shows:
- ABSENCE OF REGISTERED AGENT/SECRETARY The Czech Republic and Slovakia are standard EU jurisdictions which have adopted the EU AML Directive and have transformed it into its domestic legislations. However, the Czech/Slovak corporate law does not recognise any entity which would be licensed for the purpose of administering a company (such as secretaries in UK or Cyprus, or registered agents in other jurisdictions). Therefore, it is only very hard in practice for Czech or Slovak authorities to identify “a respective party” that would be obliged by law to collect and record the information regarding the beneficial owners of a Czech/Slovak company. Usually, requests regarding the identity of a beneficial owner of a particular company are addressed to the company itself and/or to its director(s).
You can look up the ownership of a company on the internet.
Yep. Click here, enter the company name on the first line, click the first button... and you get a list of owners' names and addresses.
Unless the company is owned by another company, which is registered in another country, etc.
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