General Inspector of Financial Information Wieslaw Jasinski told reporters that it has decided to initiate the analytical procedure.
disclosed on Sunday, “Panamanian securities” is approx. 11.5 million documents that leaked from the office Mossack Fonseca in Panama. The documents show how the Panamanian law firm helps its customers to launder money, evade sanctions and avoid paying taxes.
According to the media, these documents disclosed, among others, through the International Consortium of investigative journalists (ICIJ), they suggest that 140 politicians and other personalities official from around the world, including 12 current and former heads of state and family or circle of friends 60 further has connections with secret offshore companies, for the handling of tax laws their countries.
in-depth analysis
Jasinski, who is also Deputy finance Minister, stressed that the analytical procedure applies to all persons mentioned in the materials media.
– situations where the person politically exposed (…) use of tax havens for the purpose of concealing their assets, are widely recognized in the world. In Poland there will be – said Jasinski.
In this case – as he said – will use the information from the Polish and abroad, and the analysis will be conducted on the basis of the law on prevention of money laundering and financing of terrorism.
– the Act allows us to formulate a suspicion concerning the financing of terrorism, money laundering, but also a fiscal crime. General Inspector of Financial Information – as the central organ of government administration – also carry out the tasks as Chief Tax Inspector. Therefore, if there are also suspicions about the operation against the laws tax such action I immediately also undertook – he said Jasinski.
As he said, in terms of both the action of individuals, as well as legal.
“harmful tax competition”
Deputy Minister of finance pointed out that Panama is a country that uses harmful tax competition and is located on the so-called. the list of countries used for the purpose of money laundering and financing of terrorism and tax evasion.
He recalled that the Parliament is working to change the law of the Tax Code.
– It only confirms that the right is the way this government towards sealing of the tax system, also in the area of international transfers – he stressed.
Jasinski said that the prosecution will start working when eg. the General inspector of Financial Information shall give notice of suspicion of money laundering.
– ABW is co-operating unit (…) and can transmit their information on suspicious transactions, suspicion of terrorist financing or money laundering suspicions. And of course, such information also look forward, we are in direct contact with the Internal Security Agency – he stressed.
Zbigniew Ziobro spoke
– The case documents leaked the Panamanian law firm, and relate to the establishment of companies in tax havens will be analyzed – said, in turn, Minister of justice, Attorney General Zbigniew Ziobro.
When asked whether they planned to conduct investigation into the “Panama Papers,” Ziobro said “I do not exclude it.”
warned that you need to analyze the information that at night appeared in the media.
– it is too early to present the decisions – what they are, and with certainly the matter will be the subject of our analysis, evaluation – he stressed.
“All the action in accordance with the law”
the Polish thread affair appears the name of the head of the Democratic Party Pawel Piskorski. He had to buy a company Stardale Management registered in Panama. In this country the tax on income earned abroad is no zero rate.
As stressed policies, there is nothing to hide. He explained that the company, which was founded to realize some business enterprise. However, there has been no its realization, so the company liquidated. The politician stressed that “not flowed through it or a euro, and not a single penny.”
Pawel Piskorski said, that does not surprise him that his case was revealed on the occasion of the “big leak which is the case of Panama Papers” . He emphasized that in democratic societies, journalists have the right to control such activities. He added, however, that his case is only a “splinter” and that this is fully consistent with the law.
The Chairman of Democratic Party explained that he was not personally involved in efforts to register his company in Panama. She dealt with the law firm leading the case a thousand entrepreneurs. He stressed that if he wanted to hide something, does not envisage the company in your name.
World scandal
Among using the services of a Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, which leaked documents include footballer Lionel Messi and former head of UEFA Michel Platini. They show that the company helps its customers to launder money and avoid paying taxes.
The German newspaper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” received from an anonymous source 11.5 million documents relating to 214 thousand. companies. The data cover the period 1977 to December 2015. Editors analyze them together with the Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington, which owns 400 journalists from 80 countries. The results of their investigation publish the “Guardian”, the BBC and “Le Monde” and “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
Source: RUPTLY / x-news
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