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Liechtenstein: an inalienable tax haven

Publication date 29/02/2008 From €100.00

Tax havens

Report in Liechtenstein, a small principality known to shelter banks hosting money of people trying to flee the tax of their country thanks to the system of foundations. Micropavement of inhabitants annoyed by this bad publicity. Interviews with Michael LAUBER President of the Liechtenstein Bankers' Association and Mario FRICK, former Prime Minister, who talks about likely changes to ease the banking secrecy that will nevertheless continue to exist, the Principality’s real institution.

Tax havens: ATTAC at the gates of Monaco

Publication date 07/12/2000 From €100.00

Tax havens

Activists from ATTAC, the Peasant Confederation and the SUD trade union came to denounce tax havens and corruption were blocked at the Monegasque border. Images of the demonstrators and interviews with Didier Davant, ATTAC activist and François Dufour, vice-president of ATTAC and member of the Confederation paysanne.

Financial capitalism out of control

Publication date 13/11/2008 From €100.00

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A report on financial capitalism, with the development of derivatives whose value now reaches $100 trillion and tax havens which receive $10 trillion. Interviews with Daniel COHEN, Professor at the Ecole normale supérieure, who emphasises the seriousness of market finance that has developed outside any regulation, and Ivan MONEME, Communications Director at Fidelity, one of the largest investment and asset management funds, which explains that the crisis comes from speculation with complex and sophisticated financial products on the basis of an indebted population that produces a disconnect between reality and a financial economy.

Measures to combat international tax evasion

Publication date 30/08/2009 From €100.00

Tax havens

Faced with the global economic crisis, the G20 has indexed and threatened a number of tax havens with sanctions. While some of these offshore financial territories have pledged to lift their banking secrecy, some 40 States on a grey list are resisting, such as Monaco, Switzerland and Austria. Nevertheless, the OECD is pleased with the progress made in the fight against tax evasion. Example in Antigua in the Caribbean. The exchange of banking information between States remains difficult. Interviews with Pascal SAINT AMANS, Head of the Division for International Cooperation and Tax Competition, OECD, and Christian CHAVAGNEUX, Editor-in-Chief of Alternatives économiques.

Bank secrecy lifted in some European tax havens

Publication date 12/03/2009 From €100.00

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In preparation for the next G20 summit, several countries (Andorra, Liechtenstein...) have decided to abolish or relax their banking secrecy policy. Nicolas SARKOZY, and the German Chancellor, Angela MERKEL, denounced the countries that chose to keep banking secrecy. The refractory countries would be Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland and Belgium. These countries have met recently to come to an agreement. Excerpt from the statement made by Nicolas SARKOZY which underlines the necessary traceability of financial flows..

The City of London and the English off-shore territories paradise of terrrorists?

Publication date 10/10/2001 From €100.00

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According to a report of the anti-lanchiment mission published this morning and entitled "The City of London, Gibraltar and the Dependencies of the Crown: the off-shore sanctuaries of dirty money", the English capital and its business center "The City" would be the financial heart of terrorist organizations. The parliamentary mission also denounces the opaque offshore banking services offered in the British-controlled territories of Man, Jersey and Gibraltar. Interviews with Vincent PEILLON, Chairman of the Commission on Financial Crime, who complains about delays in obtaining mutual assistance and information between States, and testimony of a former police officer disillusioned by the lack of means to combat financial delinquency.

Financial crime: Monaco under criticism

Publication date 06/04/2005 From €100.00

Tax havens

For several years, the Principality of Monaco has been accused by France of being a tax haven for money laundering and a hotspot for financial crime. In 1993, a parliamentary inquiry committee chaired by UDF deputy François d'Aubert submitted a report on "attempts to penetrate the mafia in France" denouncing Monaco as a hub of money laundering. Extract from a statement made in February 1993 by Prince Albert of Monaco and interviews with Arnaud Montebourg, PS MP and co-author in 2000 with his colleague Vincent Peillon of a report entitled "Principality of Monaco and money laundering: a complacent territory under French protection".

Mafia and dirty money laundering: reaction of Prince Albert of Monaco

Publication date 09/02/1993 From €100.00

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Following the publication of the report of the parliamentary committee chaired by UDF deputy François d'Aubert concerning the penetration of the mafia in France, and following the statement published in the newspaper Libération de Michel SAPIN, The Minister for Economic Affairs called on the Principality of Monaco to cooperate more closely in the fight against money laundering. Reaction from Prince Albert of Monaco.

Monte Carlo and its tax system

Publication date 15/02/1976 From €100.00

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In Monaco, an interview with André Saint-Mleux, Monegasque Prime Minister who has been in office for three years and who is also a senior French official, who gives some explanations about the tax system of the Principality. The Head of Government explains in particular that the tax situation in Monaco is no longer the one that was known some time ago, concluding his statement by stating that "the tax haven you think is not the one that is believed."

Tax havens and terrorism: Jean de Maillard alerts

Publication date 20/09/2001 From €100.00

Tax havens

Interview with Jean de Maillard, President of the Correctional Court of Blois, specialized for years in the fight against banking, tax and judicial havens and author of a book entitled "A world without law". The magistrate explains that these non-cooperative offshore countries and territories in the fight against money laundering serve to make opaque a significant part of global financial transactions. But following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the US administration announced measures against dirty money laundering. Jean de Maillard recalls that President George Bush Jr had nevertheless dissociated himself at the beginning of the summer 2001 from the fight against tax havens; the magistrate stresses the lack of political will of the States to put an end to these practices. Brief images of George Bush at a press conference at the White House.

Monaco and dirty money laundering

Publication date 10/10/2000 From €100.00

Tax havens

The French government has asked Monaco to stop all complacency with dirty money laundering. A government report highlights the lack of judicial cooperation between France and the principality. Interviews with Yves Charpenel, Director of Cirminelles Affairs and Graces at the Ministry of Justice, Patrick Leclercq, Minister of State of Monaco, who challenges any complacency in the fight against money laundering, and Arnaud Montebourg, Deputy and author of the report "Monaco and laundering" which takes as an example and agitates as threat the blockade decided in 1963 by General de Gaulle who had forced Prince Rainier and his principality to adopt the French customs rules.

Financial crime: tax havens

Publication date 28/05/1998 From €100.00

Tax havens

On the occasion of the release of a book entitled "A World Without Laws", written by seven European judges responsible for anti corruption, tax havens and dirty money laundering, some of them gave an exceptional interview on their perception of the problem facing justice. Interviews with Eva Joly, investigating judge, who addresses the problem of tax havens by taking the case of the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean which holds a sixth of the world’s banking assets and reflects the difficulty and inefficiency of the fight against money laundering and corruption; Bernard Bertosssa, prosecutor of Geneva, believes that the existence of tax havens is possible only by the will of the States to tolerate them, tolerance that the magistrate questions.

Financial crime: poor judges against global financial transfers

Publication date 28/05/1998 From €100.00

Tax havens

On the occasion of the release of a book entitled "A World Without Laws", written by seven European judges responsible for anti corruption, tax havens and dirty money laundering, some of them gave an exceptional interview on their perception of the problem facing justice. Interview with Laurence Vichnievsky, investigating judge, who stresses the speed of transfer of millions via Internet while it takes a period of three to six months at best to obtain a return on a request for assistance, information from a foreign country.

Financial Crime: Judicial Fatigue

Publication date 28/05/1998 From €100.00

Tax havens

On the occasion of the release of a book entitled "A World Without Laws", written by seven European judges responsible for anti corruption, tax havens and dirty money laundering, some of them gave an exceptional interview on their perception of the problem facing justice. Interview with Bernard Bertosssa, Prosecutor of Geneva, underlines the absence of an effective international collaboration and expresses the weariness and admiration for his French colleagues who have to manage files in number, guarantees that they will not be able to complete their investigations.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn: tax havens and dirty money laundering

Publication date 26/09/1999 From €100.00

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In August 1999, a report revealed that part of the financial aid from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) paid to Russia had been diverted and placed in Jersey. A scandal that revived the problem of money laundering and the issue of the regulation of tax havens. On the sidelines of a G7 meeting, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Minister of Economy and Finance, talked about the problem of offshore territories and other tax havens that, according to the French minister, would launder about a hundred billion dollars a year.

Nicolas Sarkozy advocates financial transparency in Europe

Publication date 21/10/2008 From €100.00

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Excerpt from the statement made by President Nicolas SARKOZY at a press conference at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The French head of state believes that regulation is necessary in Europe, as well as greater financial transparency that should be exemplary. The Head of State refers to the role of Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker.

Tax evasion

Publication date 31/10/1975 From €100.00

Tax havens

In France, tax evasion causes the State to lose between one tenth and one fifth of its revenues. Reference to the various ways of cheating that the fight against tax evasion must tackle: export of contraband goods, concealment of revenues to avoid taxes, false invoices, tax havens abroad. The real penalized are the employees who cannot hide anything.

Dominique Strauss Kahn wants to dynamite tax havens

Publication date 17/02/2009 From €100.00

Tax havens

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), answers questions from studio journalists and listeners of the station. Questioned by journalist Bernard Guetta about tax havens, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said he was ready to "carry out a dynamite action against tax havens", stating however that a number of States did not agree, refusing to specify which ones. According to him, regulation and the exit from the crisis must be conducted in parallel in a context of global economic crisis.

Liechtenstein: Dirty money laundering and tax evasion?

Publication date 31/03/2009 From €100.00

Tax havens

The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office was seized by the Minister of Finance to investigate a tax fraud organized by Michelin, Adidas, Total, unfounded suspicions according to these industrial groups. Review of the facts and interviews with Eric Woerth, Minister of the Budget, Accounts and Public Service; by Daniel Lebègue, President of Transparence International France, by Jean-Louis Bianco, PS Alpes de Haute Provence deputy who believes, as Dominique Strauss-Kahn in a recent interview, that to cut off the activity of tax havens "we must attack them with dynamite".

European judges warn against tax evasion and money laundering

Publication date 25/11/1999 From €100.00

Tax havens

On 1 October 1996, at a Swiss university, seven leading European judges launching the Geneva Appeal held a press conference. These anti-corruption figures warned about their powerlessness in the face of banking secrecy, the slowness of procedures against globalized financial circuits. Excerpt from the statement made by Renaud Van Ruymbeke, advisor to the Court of Appeal of Rennes, who expressed his concern for the future by stressing the impossibility to trace the origin of these illicit funds, Nor is it possible to guess the destination of this money injected into national economies.

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