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Liam O'Shea

Liam O'Shea

Dr Liam O'Shea is a political and security analyst specializing in anti-corruption and organized crime, currently with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, formerly a Senior Research Fellow at RUSI.

Jul 30, 2026

6:11
And criminals are very good at exploiting these systems.
6:15
It's very easy to get a car out of the UK, a stolen car.
6:18
In fact, it's very easy to hire a shipping container in the UK.
6:23
And some of our sources are telling us you can do it with an email address.
6:26
There's no IDs.
6:27
So it's very easy to hire a shipping container.
6:30
and you bung it full of parts or stolen cars, and off it goes.
8:31
Different specialists can become involved at different points.
1:57
Slightly more complicated, what happens if I buy shares and it's in a New Zealand or Australian company? How am I taxed for that?
2:06
Yeah, for sure.
2:07
So with shares you're gonna have a, you know, y- you're buying shares for a couple of reasons.
2:10
You're probably buying them to get an income from dividend.
2:13
You might be buying them to get a bit of a capital gain.
2:16
And so, you know, dividends, that's gonna be taxed at your marginal rate, exactly like term deposits and any other income.
2:22
If you've got a capital gain, now, usually that there is not gonna be taxable, as long as your intention is not to buy that shares with the intention of making a gain, right? So in those situations that could mean your ca- your, your capital gain is taxable.
2:40
Now, how does it work if I've got, say, $50,000 invested in Tesla? What happens then?

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