TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED

Jurisdiction:

British Virgin Islands

Status: Dead

TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED is a British Virgin Islands–registered offshore entity that appears in the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ (ICIJ) Offshore Leaks Database as part of the broader network exposed by the 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation. The entity’s corporate profile shows it was incorporated in 1997 and maintained through Portcullis TrustNet (BVI) Limited, which acted as the records and registers keeper and intermediary linking the company to the wider offshore services network. Panmure Securities Limited is listed as a director of TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED from February 1997 onward, while Rightask Properties Limited is recorded as a shareholder, indicating a layered ownership structure typical of offshore vehicles used to separate legal control from beneficial ownership. The database also associates the entity with an individual, Winata Wiryaputra, whose exact role is not fully specified in the public extract but whose presence further connects TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED to a network of persons and entities operating across secrecy jurisdictions. Taken together, these links position TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED as a small but structurally representative node within the global offshore system, tied to known corporate service providers, nominee directors, and related companies that facilitate cross‑border asset holding and financial opacity.

Connection

TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED functions as a British Virgin Islands–incorporated offshore company within the ICIJ Offshore Leaks network, and its entity page visualizes these ties as a compact graph linking the company to key officers, intermediaries, and addresses. In this structure, the corporate service provider Portcullis TrustNet (BVI) Limited appears as the central intermediary, recorded as the keeper of the company’s records and registers and thereby connecting TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED to a wider web of entities serviced by the same trust company. Panmure Securities Limited is shown as a director appointed in 1997, while Rightask Properties Limited is listed as a shareholder, illustrating a typical nominee arrangement in which legal control and ownership are separated across different corporate layers. The graph also ties the entity to shared addresses in the British Virgin Islands and links it to an associated individual, Winata Wiryaputra, whose name appears in the same node cluster, indicating further personal and corporate interconnections within the offshore ecosystem. By mapping these relationships—entity, officers, intermediaries, addresses, and related persons—the visualization makes explicit how TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED is embedded in a network designed to obscure beneficial ownership while maintaining formal corporate governance through appointed agents and service providers.

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Intermediary

  1. Winata Wiryaputra.
  2. Portcullis TrustNet (BVI) Limited

Portcullis TrustNet Chambers P.O. Box 3444 Road Town, Tortola British Virgin Islands (w.e.f 9 December 2005)

United Kingdom
Dead
TOP NEWS HOUSE LIMITED
Jurisdiction :

British Virgin Islands

Agent:

Portcullis Trustnet

Linked Countries:

British Virgin Islands

Incorporated:
October 17, 1995
Status:
Dead