A property magnate embroiled in a corruption inquiry that has plunged a Caribbean offshore tax haven into a constitutional crisis is leading a legal challenge to curb publication of a report on the affair.

Mario Hoffman, developer of the tiny paradise island of Salt Cay, is due to go to the Turks and Caicos Islands’ supreme court on Thursday to try to excise what he says are unfair criticisms, which he expects to be made of him by a British government-sponsored official inquiry.