John Fashanu Among 1,000 Britons Linked To Tax Havens.

Named: TV presenter and former footballer John Fashanu has appeared on a database of people linked to tax havens

A raft of high-profile Britons and organisations - including a former England footballer, a professor of medicine and a government trade adviser - have been revealed to have links to off-shore tax havens in a database leaked to HM Revenue & Customs.

They include ex-footballer John Fashanu and Alpesh Patel, a former Financial Times columnist who now advises UK Trade and Investment, as well as leading banks and financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs and Coutts, according to the Sunday Times.

The cache of 2.5m leaked documents, which was revealed to HMRC as it clamps down on wealth sheltered in tax havens, relate to the activities of companies and people in countries with low tax including Singapore, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the Cook Islands (CI).

It is thought the documents have been handed in stages to HMRC and authorities in America and Australia by a whistleblower since 2009, prompting a global investigation into alleged tax evasion.

One of the more unusual names on the list, which was separately obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, is Robert Stockley, a professor of medicine at University Hospital Birmingham.

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