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Showing posts with label Money Laundering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Money Laundering. Show all posts
September 13, 2019
April 18, 2019
The Netherlands: UBO Register in the Netherlands
To combat Money Laundering as ordered by a EU Directive the Dutch government is writing laws to do so, which should be in force by 2020 .
October 9, 2016
Suriname: Investigators find €2 million hidden in Suriname-bound ambulance - by Janene Pieters
A 44-year-old man from Almere was arrested by the Tax Authorities’ investigative department FIOD after an amount of 2 million euros was discovered in an ambulance he wanted to ship to Suriname, Metro reports. He is suspected of money laundering.
According to the newspaper, the man wanted to ship the ambulance and a new Jaguar from Vlissingen to Suriname. But a Customs sniffer dog found the money in time.
The money, all 500 euro notes, was hidden in two plastic bags in the ambulance’s roof. The money, ambulance and Jaguar were all confiscated. The authorities also searched the suspect’s home and storage unit.
The car company that arranged the transportation of the ambulance and Jaguar is also under investigation. The company offers expensive cars for sale on its website, but does not report any revenue to the Tax Authorities. The authorities suspect the company launders criminal money by exporting expensive cars and money to Suriname.
Read more: Investigators find €2 million hidden in Suriname-bound ambulance - NL Time
According to the newspaper, the man wanted to ship the ambulance and a new Jaguar from Vlissingen to Suriname. But a Customs sniffer dog found the money in time.
The money, all 500 euro notes, was hidden in two plastic bags in the ambulance’s roof. The money, ambulance and Jaguar were all confiscated. The authorities also searched the suspect’s home and storage unit.
The car company that arranged the transportation of the ambulance and Jaguar is also under investigation. The company offers expensive cars for sale on its website, but does not report any revenue to the Tax Authorities. The authorities suspect the company launders criminal money by exporting expensive cars and money to Suriname.
Read more: Investigators find €2 million hidden in Suriname-bound ambulance - NL Time
April 4, 2016
The Netherlands: Dutch companies implicated in Panama Papers tax evasion scandal - by Janene Pieters
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| The Netherlands: home of the so-called shell companies |
The leaked documents revealed that Panamanian legal consultancy Mossack Fonseca helped a large number of billionaires from around the world channel their money into tax havens, which means that they hardly paid any taxes. At this stage it is unclear how many people are involved.
It now seems that at least two Dutch letterbox companies – companies that establish themselves in tax friendly countries with only a postal address, while conducting business in other countries – are mentioned in the Panama Papers, according to the Financieele Dagblad. The FD and Dutch newspaper Trouw are involved in investigating the Papers.
According to FD, the two Dutch letterbox companies are “sports marketing companies named in an indictment of the American judiciary against the high bosses of FIFA”. It is believed that they played a major role in payments to sports marketing companies in Latin America. “So it is suspected that the Netherlands was the linchpin in illegal payments, bribes, to senior FIFA people.”
The Netherlands is also mentioned in the Panama Papers in other ways. Rich Dutch also make use of the structures mentioned to evade taxes. And Dutch notaries, banks and trust companies are willing to set up such structures.
More information on exactly who is involved is expected later this week.
Note Almere-Digest: The leak of millions of documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca has again focused attention on the Netherlands as a tax haven, Dutch media say on Monday.
According to the Volkskrant, the papers, which reveal the tax evasion strategies used by politicians, sports stars and businessmen, show that Dutch shell companies are being used to make payments on the basis of fake contracts.
Oxfam Novib tax expert Francis Weyzig told the paper the Netherlands has played a ‘questionable role in shifting money’.
GroenLinks MP Rik Grashoff has called for a parliamentary debate on the revelations. ‘These show how important it is that the ownership of shell companies is public and that we should eventually start tackling the perverse practice of tax evasion,’ he said.
The secret documents were obtained by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ)
he leak of millions of
documents from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca has again focused
attention on the Netherlands as a tax haven, Dutch media say on Monday.
According to the Volkskrant, the papers, which reveal the tax evasion
strategies used by politicians, sports stars and businessmen, show that
Dutch shell companies are being used to make payments on the basis of
fake contracts.
Oxfam Novib tax expert Francis Weyzig told the paper the Netherlands has
played a ‘questionable role in shifting money’.
GroenLinks MP Rik Grashoff has called for a parliamentary debate on the
revelations. ‘These show how important it is that the ownership of shell
companies is public and that we should eventually start tackling the
perverse practice of tax evasion,’ he said.
The documents were obtained by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung
and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists (ICIJ)
Read more at DutchNews.nl: Panama Papers leak focuses attention on Dutch shell firms http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/04/88080-2/
Read more at DutchNews.nl: Panama Papers leak focuses attention on Dutch shell firms http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/04/88080-2/
Read more: Dutch companies implicated in Panama Papers tax evasion scandal - NL Times
March 18, 2014
European Wealth: The Richest People In Europe
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| Row row row |
An indication of a strong economy, Germany saw 26 new super-fortunes in
2014, earning it the third-highest number of billionaire freshman.
Only the U.S.A and China had more first-time billionaires.
No European has ever landed the top spot on Forbes’ global wealth list, but the continent is home to the world’s richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt. Aged 91, the French cosmetics queen is worth $34.5 billion, thanks to her L’Oréal empire.
A third of Europe’s 52 richest, listed below, earned their fortunes in fashion and retail, including brand names Miuccia Prada and Giorgio Armani, as well as H&M giant Stefan Persson, who is third-wealthiest in the continent. (Not all industries are as glamorous; German Georg Schaeffler made his $14.3 billion from ball bearings.)
Prada is just one of six women in this shortlist of Europe’s richest. She is joined in this elite group by Bettencourt, BMW’s Susanne Klatten and Johanna Quandt, beverage inheritor Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and oil heir Carrie Perrodo.
Several of Europe’s richest live outside their country of citizenship. Though an Irish passport holder, Pallonji Mistry lives in Mumbai, India. Hansjoerg Wyss lives in Wilson, Wyoming, while both Wertheimer brothers live in New York.
Read more: he Richest People In Europe
February 28, 2014
Ukraine pleads for U.S., U.K. help after Russian 'invasion' - by Mark Mackinon
The new Ukrainian government says it has been invaded by Russia, and
has appealed for the United States and United Kingdom to protect it, as
they guaranteed under a 1994 agreement.
The move came after pro-Russian gunmen seized both main airports on the Crimean Peninsula early Friday, a day after other militiamen took control of the regional parliament building. With gunmen in the building and the Russian flag flying from the roof, deputies appointed a new government and passed a motion Thursday calling for a referendum on the future as part of Ukraine.
The armed takeovers sharply escalate what had already been an extremely volatile situation in Crimea, a Russian-speaking region that has rejected the overthrow of the Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovych and the rise to power of pro-Western forces in Kiev.
Also on Friday,
Swiss police raided the premises of a Geneva firm owned by Mr.
Yanukovych and his son Oleksander in an investigation into “aggravated
money laundering.”
In Kiev, Ukraine’s parliament adopted a resolution on Friday demanding that Russia halt steps it says are aimed against Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and called for a UN Security Council meeting on the crisis.
The parliament also called for guarantees of the memorandum signed by Ukraine, Britain, Russia and the United States in Budapest in 1994. That agreement guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and current borders in exchange for surrendering the nuclear weapons that were left after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It wasn’t clear whether the gunmen who seized the airports were Russian soldiers or pro-Russian militiamen. They wore no insignia, but carried automatic weapons and Russian flags into the airport.
Read more: Ukraine pleads for U.S., U.K. help after Russian 'invasion' - The Globe and Mail
The move came after pro-Russian gunmen seized both main airports on the Crimean Peninsula early Friday, a day after other militiamen took control of the regional parliament building. With gunmen in the building and the Russian flag flying from the roof, deputies appointed a new government and passed a motion Thursday calling for a referendum on the future as part of Ukraine.
The armed takeovers sharply escalate what had already been an extremely volatile situation in Crimea, a Russian-speaking region that has rejected the overthrow of the Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovych and the rise to power of pro-Western forces in Kiev.
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| Swiss accuse Yanukovych of “aggravated money laundering.” |
In Kiev, Ukraine’s parliament adopted a resolution on Friday demanding that Russia halt steps it says are aimed against Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and called for a UN Security Council meeting on the crisis.
The parliament also called for guarantees of the memorandum signed by Ukraine, Britain, Russia and the United States in Budapest in 1994. That agreement guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and current borders in exchange for surrendering the nuclear weapons that were left after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
It wasn’t clear whether the gunmen who seized the airports were Russian soldiers or pro-Russian militiamen. They wore no insignia, but carried automatic weapons and Russian flags into the airport.
Read more: Ukraine pleads for U.S., U.K. help after Russian 'invasion' - The Globe and Mail
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