On September 25, Benjamin Woolf, Simon Raftopoulos and Paul Muspratt met to sign a bundle of documents. The three men are based in the Cayman Islands, where Woolf and Raftopoulos have senior positions in the corporate practice of international law firm Appleby, from which the so-called Paradise Papers cache of documents on offshore tax planning clients leaked three years ago. Muspratt works for a separate corporate services firm in the Caribbean nation. Between 4.20pm and 4.40pm, they signed winding-up declarations for three Irish-registered companies: Facebook International Holdings I Unltd, Facebook International Holdings II Unltd and Facebook Ireland Holdings Unltd. Woolf,…

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