Thursday, 22 September 2016

European Commissioner exposed in Bahamas leak of offshore company directorship

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Oh, well. It would not be news for many who knew of corruption at the EU Commission:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/sep/21/ex-eu-commissioner-neelie-kroes-failed-to-declare-directorship-of-offshore-firm

Here is EC policy on corruption:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex:52003DC0317

The failure to declare directorship of the company mirrors UK regulator's failure to hold doctors responsible when they fail to declare relevant directorships or committee memberships. No, there is no competition anywhere on incompetence and wilful blindness.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalism has performed a major operation in publishing names of almost two hundred thousand Bahamas based companies with directorships from politicians all over the world in some of those companies. While Consortium claims the company membership is legal and in some cases justified needless to say, questions will be asked by many.

To search data base by the name of person click on the link below:
https://www.icij.org/blog/2016/09/icij-publishes-leaked-bahamas-info-offshore-database




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