This powerful simplification of accounts enables the Minister to perform some capital tricks of financial sleight of hand.

Shell firms and 'loans' Laundromat was big -and at the heart of it was a financial sleight of hand.

And he tried to use financial sleight of hand to keep his wife from finding out about his serial philandering.

Now came the crucial switch of materials to cladding that spread the fire, a decision that became enmeshed in financial sleight of hand.