TAIPEI, April 8 — Actor Nicky Wu is one of 90 Taiwan passport holders named in the Panama Papers, CommonWealth Magazine said on Wednesday.
Singapore’s Straits Times reported that according to the database, he used the firm Horizon Sky Technology Limited to cooperate with Hong Kong-based Sun Entertainment Culture Limited.
The 45-year-old actor is said to be worth more than NT$1.7 billion (RM204 million).
Wu said via his agent on Wednesday that he had always complied with regulations in his dealings and that his company is a legally registered firm.
Singapore’s Straits Times added that CommonWealth is the only media outlet from the Chinese-speaking world to have been invited by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists to go through the Panama Papers.
Other famous Asian celebrities have also been featured in the massive leak of 11.5 million documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm with offices in 35 countries.
They include Bollywood’s Amitabh Bachchan, daughter-in-law, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and martial arts movie star Jackie Chan.
As with many of Fonseca’s clients, there is no evidence that these celebrities used their companies for improper purposes and having an offshore entity is not illegal.
The stash of records was obtained from an anonymous source by German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and shared with media worldwide. The documents, from around 214,000 offshore entities, cover almost 40 years.
