Dick is currently embroiled in a family dispute over his large global wealth. The fight has been covered in newspapers ranging from Institutional Investor to The Guardian.

This struggle took place at courts all over the globe and included disputes about ownership of Jersey Trusts and real estate in London. It also involved scrums for an apartment in St. Petersburg, Russia and a painting that was worth millions: “Madonna and Child”, by Botticelli, the Italian master.

Tanya Dick Stock’s side has generally not prevailed in legal disputes. One 2019 Jersey ruling stated that a court had referred to the United States court proceedings. It said, “We didn’t find Tanya’s explanation to us about the things she told in Colorado convincing.” A federal Colorado court has witnessed the latest skirmish. An offshore law firm, based in Jersey, is now suing Dick Stock and her husband for over a million dollars. It claims that they are not paying legal fees.

Tanya Dick Stock in turn makes an accusation of the offshore establishment that she believes she’s fighting.

Jersey has been called a “dependency” by the United Kingdom. But it is independent and self-governing. This allows it to create its financial rules without having to rely on British financial regulators. The secrecy system it has created has drawn in large sums of money from international investors.

Tax Justice Network is a non-profit group that advocates for greater disclosure of offshore tax havens. It ranks Jersey as No. 16. in the world for financial secrecy. The group claims that offshore foundations and trusts in Jersey, as well as offshore corporations, “provide an effective secrecy area that attracts illicit funds from all over the globe,” with the help of judicial separation from Britain. The Tax Justice Network says that despite its tiny population of just about 100,000 people, Jersey controls an estimated £1 trillion ($1.35 trillion) in assets and is the registered address of more than 33,000 companies.

Jersey Finance, an association representing financial industry and government on Jersey, recently lauded new legislation which it said will enable Jersey to comply with international disclosure standards. According to the group, the law of 2021 will make more information available for Jersey businesses and provide a revised statutory framework on how beneficial ownership information is made public. This information will not be publicly made accessible.

They’re at odds today. Tanya Dick Stock recalls her childhood with her father being relatively peaceful. According to her, it was a “normal father-daughter” relationship. Was it ever smooth? No. “But since when does fathers and daughters always get along?”

The world began to shift when John Dick started making huge returns on his real estate investments while Tanya grew up in the United States. She said that John Dick began to drift from her mother and she was the reason. Dick was determined and courageous. Dick’s wife was, however, a strong-willed and adventurous individual.

Dick-Stock recalls, “My parents were married in their teens.” “My mother, from the time she died to this day, was such an arrow. No drinking, no dancing, no smoking. If you went to a movie on a Sunday – that was the Lord’s day – you were going to hell.”

A point of contention was John Dick’s desire to lavishly entertain in an extravagant manner, as a result of his increasing financial success. However, his wife refused to allow alcohol in their house. The Colorado lawsuit filed by Dick-Stock against her father claims that certain marital assets were put in trust for Tanya’s brother and Tanya. The battle between fathers and daughters centers around the assets and the rightful owners of them.

John Dick is confident that he will prevail in this dispute. “No court has found for the Dick-Stocks,” said he in a statement released by a spokesperson. “Eventually, the legal process and their unpaid debts will catch up to them. The couple is headed for financial disaster and personal destruction, something that deeply saddens my heart.

This father-daughter dispute has been fuelled by an unusual discovery. Dick Stock claims that she found a cache of over 350,000 pages of documents, which Darrin Stock discovered with her in 2012. The boxes were stored in numerous boxes at the St. John’s Manor estate’s squash courts.

CNBC examined dozens more documents to see the inside workings of Dick’s trust- and estate company. La Hougue was the name of the company that operated trusts in Jersey on behalf wealthy clients.

One of the documents found in the squash court was a La Hougue memo called “CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION” and addressed to a potential client who wanted information about placing money offshore with the Jersey firm. It lists eleven “methods” that could be used to allow assets to be moved offshore.

One technique was an investment made in a Mexican property owned by La Hougue. The money would then be “credited”, to the client’s bank account.

The memo stated that “If the Tax Authority inquired, appropriate confirmations and assurances regarding the non-profitability could be given to prove that there has been no capital gain or income distributions,”

Although the La Hougue memo does not reference Dick, it was signed by an official of the firm. The memo assured La Hougue clients that they would be kept completely secret: “No separate information could have been obtained by any investigating party.”

However, such secrecy has a downside. The problem for clients seeking such ironclad secrecy is that their need for confidentiality gave La Hougue leverage over them – as well as control over their financial assets. La Hougue seems to have once been open to using that leverage against clients.

The squash court also found a memo that details an argument with Canadian wealthy clients about the amount of their client accounts and the client’s desire to “wind down” their trust in Jersey. The Jersey estate company did not agree to take the money. La Hougue’s memo describes threats it considered making to its clients, as well as the possibility of revealing clients’ Canadian tax holdings to Canada authorities if the client refused to comply.

John Dick receives the memo. He proposes to respond to it by writing: I “will be left without any other option but to divulge all.” The memo was not read by Dick and how he responded to it is unclear.

This memo warned that it would reveal the “source of funds and tax anomalies” as well as where distributions went. The memo stated that the Jersey firm “will not have any conscience” in tipping Revenue Canada specifically about the two of them. [a consultant]Whom we think masterminded all of it!”

CNBC did not review the records and could not determine how the dispute was settled or whether it implemented the plan.

Through a spokesman, John Dick said there was fraud at La Hougue, but that it was conducted by an executive of the company without Dick’s knowledge – and that Dick himself was a victim. A spokesman for the firm stated that an executive of the firm had admitted to fabricating inaccurate documents, and Dick did not have any oversight or participation in La Hougue’s daily operations at the time.

Tanya Dickock stated that there is more to her legal fight than her personal wealth. She believes the battle is about Jersey’s legal system, she claims, that allows financial fraud on a worldwide scale.

She stated, “If all that they were doing in Jersey was to milk cows and grow potatoes, I’d love it.” But they desire to be an international financial hub. “There must be law, and it must be implemented.”

Dick’s career, which spans across the globe has seen him travel far more than Jersey. Dick is a Canadian of Ukrainian descent and was born in Canada. He has extensive business connections in Rwanda. The status of Dick’s relationship with Rwandan authorities is not clear. Dick claims that he’s the Ambassador at Large of Africa and has a Diplomatic Passport. The Rwandan Embassy declined to comment. Liberty Global where Dick is a member of the board, however, denies that he is a diplomat.

Dick served for years as a board member in various Rwandan telecommunications firms during an era when the country was trying to recover from the violence of genocide. The long-time home of St. John’s Manor, Dick was visited by Rwandan President Paul Kagame several times.

The large, wrought iron-iron, and stone gate had a frame white sign with gold letters that read: “Ambassador at Large République of Rwanda” as recently as 2019.

Dick spoke to a Rwandan newspaper about his hopes and dreams for Rwanda in 2015. He said he was pursuing a tax agreement between Jersey and Rwanda, and this would “open the doors for Rwanda to develop its financial system – the kind that Jersey has.”

Dick stated, “I believe Rwanda can be the Jersey of Africa.”

Dick said that in 2015, he had been deposed in an instance involving a family conflict. Dick stated that he was a Rwandan diplomat and had held a passport from Rwanda for thirteen or fourteen years.

The question then arises as to whether Dick has diplomatic immunity and is subject to prosecution anywhere in the world. CNBC reached the Rwandan Embassy at Washington via telephone, email, and person to answer this question. Officials promised to respond on multiple occasions but no official from Rwandan Embassy nor government has confirmed that Dick was a diplomat for the country.

Dick refused to answer directly whether he believes that diplomatic immunity is available to him. A Dick spokesperson instead stated that John has “never relied on it in any legal proceedings” and that he doesn’t foresee his likely use of this statement.

Liberty Global spokeswoman told CNBC that Dick claimed to be a Rwandan diplomat.

When asked if Liberty Global considered Dick a diplomat, the spokesperson replied, “No.”

Steven Pifer is a former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, and currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States of Europe. He called the current situation “bizarre.”

Pifer stated that Ambassador at Large is a mystery to him. It just feels strange to me. The fact that Dick’s status hasn’t been confirmed by the Embassy of Rwanda is “not consistent with either the US practice or any other major country”. Pifer said that if his company doesn’t consider him a diplomat, then I would doubt it. It is possible to imagine that the company would advertise this credential.