Neelie Creuse is one of the most important people that appears in the “Bahamas Leaks” – another leak of documents from tax havens. Who is he? Croesus, it was the EU Commissioner for competition, and now a consultant to Merrill Lynch and Uber. Had to do provide leadership, when the entire position in one of the companies registered in the Bahamas. In the background also appear jordańscy businessmen and the arms trade.
Leak shows the relationship of the world’s politicians and businessmen with companies registered in tax heaven in the Bahamas. The Central figure of the investigation conducted and described by the international Association of Journalists-Investigators. ICIJ) Neelie Croesus, was EU Commissioner for competition, and later also on the digital agenda.
“Steelie Neelie” as it was called while working as Commissioner (“steel Neelie” – ed.), was famous, above all, with hard hands against big business – was not going to read or pricing practices of alcoholic beverages, which were punished milionowymi punishment and said that “close to ordinary citizens.” Has repeatedly been in the list of the 100 most influential women in the world, published annually by Forbes.
Meanwhile, today it turns out that I myself do not fully disclose their relationship with the business. And every high European official in his statement of property is obliged to admit that not only for its current state of ownership, but also to identify all relationships with the business which he had for 10 years before taking a position.
Croesus, however, admitted in lobbying activities in favor of one of the largest producers of weapons and military equipment – Lockheed Martin, but has never devoted its activity to the Board of Mint Holdings, one of the companies in the Bahamas. And this position, according to documents that appeared in the Bahamas Leaks, worked from July 2000 to October 2009 (European Commissioner for competition was from 2004 to 2010, 4 years worked in turn as European Commissioner for digital agenda).
adds Piquancy to the fact that with a different Director at Mint Holdings was Badr-El-Din, a Jordanian businessman and Creator of the UAE Offset Group – company reinwestującej profit from the sale of weapons to the UAE. The company Jordańczyka for many years she, in turn, signed contract m. in particular, Lockheed Martin.
Today, Neelie Krez has 75 years, but it still works in the business. Occupies high posts and advice, Merrill Lynch and Uberze. It’s slightly changed her opinion on tax law and European law. The same Croesus who, as the Commissioner grzmiała that “corporations can’t just walk away from EU law”, recently skrytykowała the European Commission, which ordered the U.S. giant Apple to return $ 13 billion of unpaid taxes in the EU. Creuse is still the most influential działaczką ruling in the Netherlands people’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).
it Was the Commissioner denies, however, that its work faced a “conflict of interest”. – The lack of information about Mint Holdings in the statement of property was not in bad faith, the lawyer said, answering the question ICIJ. – Mrs. Croesus will inform the President of the European Commission about przeoczeniu and suffer the full consequences associated with it.
As conveyed through his lawyer, Badr-El-Din, company Mint Holdings was created to bought international the sources of energy, primarily, from Enron and to wean Europe from oil and coal, and, consequently, from Russia. None of this, however, did not work, and the idea collapsed in the late summer of 2000. Croesus remained, however, in the documents of the company as a high-level Manager. Says her lawyer is in error.
Colombian Minister
Among the prominent politicians in the list of persons identified for “Bahamas Leaks” appeared also the former Minister of mining and energy of Colombia – Carlos Caballero Argaez, acting in this office between 1999 and 2001. He had to take the post of Chairman and Secretary of a company called Pavc Properties in 1997-2008.
in addition, acted as Director of the company in Norway, which was registered in the Bahamas in 1990 and worked until last year. Argaez let ICIJ that the company had a Bank account in Miami, and its owner was the father of politics. Funds accumulated in the account was after his death divided among his sons, including the former Minister in the government of Colombia. In addition, the company had an apartment in the same city.
does Not deny, however, that he put the money thus obtained, on account that you created in the Bahamas. – I chose this country after persuasion of lawyers. I did this for tax purposes – admitted Argaez.
Bahamas Utilities should also mention about some politicians who, however, appeared already in “the Panama Papers”. We are talking about the President of Argentina Macrim Maricio and his father and brother. The documents also mention about the former Prime Minister of great Britain David Cameron and the former head of the government of Qatar Sheikh Hamadzie Ibn Jabr Al Sanim.
Mossack Fonseca
“Bahamas Leaks” is the second in the last time so serious leaked documents from tax havens. In early April, was loud about the Scam, “the Panama Papers,” which revealed the relationship of the tax shelters of many businessmen and politicians, including Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister of Iceland Sigmundura David Gunnlaugssona or environment of Vladimir Putin.
Then panamskiej legal company Mossack Fonseca emerged nearly 11.5 million documents, letters, records, and contracts. “Unlike the Panama Papers, the leak of the Bahamian Islands is much less rich in specific details, but sheds new light on the transfer of its assets to prominent politicians and businessmen in tax havens,” write the authors of the journalistic investigation.
Today the name Mossack Fonseca also appears in documents from the Bahamas. They show, for the names of the 539 registered entities that mediate between the authorities of the Caribbean archipelago and companies who wanted to establish a foreign branch in a tax haven. Law firm in Panama, of course, among them. It has helped to create more than 15 thousand. firms in the Bahamas and service names in strict confidence, away from the publicly accessible registers.
an Archipelago in the Caribbean sea this, however, for many years one of the most popular tax havens, where it would be loud, by the way, big politics. A lot of money through offshore companies “missed”. M. in particular, the son of Augusto Pinochet and Sani Abacha, President of Nigeria. With “pillars” in the Bahamas repeatedly used the policy from Greece, Ukraine, Kuwait or Trinidad and Tobago. It is not surprising that this country is called in America the “Switzerland of the East”.
According to the first estimates, the Bahamas are due to the favorable tax laws capitalize on foreign companies “OK”. $ 17.7 million.
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