Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos is among the major-league team owners mentioned by The Guardian newspaper as benefiting in the past from offshore tax havens.
Karmanos and other owners in the NFL and NBA appeared in a leaked version of the Paradise Papers, a special investigation by The Guardian – the British daily – and 95 media partners into more than 13 million leaked files from two offshore service providers and the company registries of 19 tax havens.
Karmanos, interviewed by The Guardian, did not deny forming a Barbados company while chairman and CEO of Compuware, the Detroit-based software company he co-founded.