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{{ | {{a|entity|{{image|SPV|jpg|An [[espievie]] going about its charitable purposes yesterday}}}}{{d|Special purpose vehicle|/ˈspɛʃ(ə)l ˈpəːpəs ˈviːɪk(ə)/|n|}} | ||
A unique species of [[joint stock company]]<ref>Also known as an “[[espievie]]” and, in accounting circles for some reason, as an “[[espiecie]]” — rest assured it is the same beast.</ref> first discovered in the lush forests of [[George Town]], [[Grand Cayman]] by dour Scottish naturalist [[A. J. N. Calder]] in 1926. | A unique species of [[joint stock company]]<ref>Also known as an “[[espievie]]” and, in accounting circles for some reason, as an “[[espiecie]]” — rest assured it is the same beast.</ref> first discovered in the lush forests of [[George Town]], [[Grand Cayman]] by dour Scottish naturalist [[A. J. N. Calder]] in 1926. | ||
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Since then, [[espievie]]s have proven robust migrants and flourished in many fiscal climates all around the world. | Since then, [[espievie]]s have proven robust migrants and flourished in many fiscal climates all around the world. | ||
===Domestication=== | ===Domestication=== | ||
The [[espievie]] was first bred in captivity in the nineteen-sixties, in a famous collaboration between [[Calder]] and [[Maple brothers|Godfrey and Maginot Maple]]. At the time, [[Calder]] was general manager of the children’s orphanage founded by [[George Ugland]], and the Maple brothers ran [[George Town]]’s zoological menagerie. | The [[espievie]] was first bred in captivity in the nineteen-sixties, in a famous collaboration between [[Calder]] and [[Maple brothers|Godfrey and Maginot Maple]]. At the time, [[Calder]] was general manager of the children’s orphanage founded by [[George Ugland]], and the [[Maple brothers]] ran [[George Town]]’s zoological menagerie. | ||
The site of their collaboration is occupied today by [[Ugland House]] headquarters | The site of their collaboration is occupied today by [[Ugland House]], an austere spanish-fronted ''hacienda'' which headquarters an international breeding programme for [[espievie]]s of all kinds, meaning that the continued survival of this freak of [[Financial service|financial biology]] is, for the foreseeable future, assured. | ||
===Modern use=== | ===Modern use=== | ||
Most [[espievie]]s are harmless and even friendly and can be useful around the garden, mulching up tax liabilities and so on. But occasionally they turn nasty. Poor | Most [[espievie]]s are harmless and even friendly and can be useful around the garden, mulching up tax liabilities and so on. But occasionally they turn nasty. Poor Andrew Fastow was hounded to prison by three of his own [[raptors]]. [[Herbert Fonseca]], though he successfully bred Panamanian tax [[espievie]]s for nearly sixty years, was finally undone when an unfortunate leakage of publicity wiped out his whole breeding population, and a significant part of the offshore wealth management industry, in 2016. | ||
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