Hired nominal directors and founders.

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The obvious downside of such relationships is that they are based solely on trust. And if one of the parties decides to abuse this, it will be difficult to prove anything. There are also situations when the nominee borrows money from the company without warning the real manager about it.


Such services are provided by agencies specializing in this - consulting companies and those who provide accounting support for businesses. One of the main conditions is the absence of problems with the law and a criminal record.

Agencies send copies of passports of india business email list all candidates for the position of nominee to the customer. The customer checks them for any problems with the law in the past. Then, the agency organizes a meeting of the two parties, who then build communication independently.

The first negative aspect of such a scheme is that the candidate may end up being involved in several other companies, since this activity is his source of income. This means that in the future the company may have problems with the tax authorities during an audit. The latter maintain a database of such "directors".

The second disadvantage is that the agency is an additional witness who is aware of the entire situation. Circumstances may well arise when its representatives give evidence to law enforcement agencies that is not entirely beneficial to the real owner of the business.

Of course, all agency representatives guarantee non-disclosure of this information. Although in practice there are many cases when their employees confirm during interrogation that the hired manager is fictitious.

Companies offering nominee director services often indicate in their advertisements that all addresses are real, meaning that a company can be registered there. But this does not confirm that the nominee actually lives there.

A real-life case: law enforcement officers decided to check the authenticity of the founder of a counterparty company. In fact, it turned out that not only he but also his sister lived at the registered address, who explained that she knew nothing about the location of her relative and had no idea about the type of his activities. Of course, her words were accepted as one of the proofs of the founder's nominality. As a result, the tax authorities accused the company of having ties to a one-day company, and the court case was won, as evidenced by the ruling of the Federal Arbitration Court of the East Siberian District.

Students, unemployed, pensioners, visitors from other regions, citizens of foreign countries, persons without a fixed abode.

The services of such citizens are usually used once for registration or, conversely, liquidation of a legal entity, as well as for conducting high-risk transactions. In these cases, the customers themselves look for nominees through their acquaintances, without resorting to the services of third-party agencies.

The risks are that such people are often extremely unreliable. They may not show up for a deal or take an advance payment and disappear in an unknown direction. It is unlikely that they will be found later. And there are nominees with a criminal past. In this regard, banks may refuse to open an account for them.

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By resorting to the services of such unreliable individuals, business owners mistakenly believe that it will be difficult for inspection bodies to find such a person in the event of a necessary inspection. But in practice, everything turns out to be different. If a person lives at the place of registration, then finding him will not be difficult. And then he gives confessions that are unfavorable for the real managers of the companies.