Every paradise has a snake that gives knowledge – Sydsvenskan

In Britain bothered Prime Minister David Cameron that his own father and several of the Tory major contributors pushed letterbox in tax havens.

And in countries Nigeria, Kazakhstan and Ecuador revealed ministers, governors and mayors with previously unknown million assets.

There is one enormous explosive force of the revelations about “the Panama papers” , the 11.5 million documents that provide a unique insight into how the world’s tax havens act as free economic zones of shady characters from all over the world.

It is difficult to see the obvious similarities between the multimillion transactions on the one hand made by the previous MFF players Mattias Asper and Brian Steen Nielsen with the help of consulting firm Mossack Fonseca and the shops on the other hand made by people with ties to the Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

But the move to everyone in the gray area of ​​international financial activities, a gray area where bribery and dirty money laundered white, where the taxable income remains untaxed, and where people are subject to disqualification or economic sanctions undisturbed continue their business.

How tax havens, whether they called Panama, Gibraltar, British Virgin Islands or Niau.

Now is proven it again that there’s a snake in every paradise. The snake is called in this case “the Panama papers”. It leads us to the fruit of knowledge.

The revelations show that three types of shady figures benefited from Mossack Fonseca services:

1 . Many transactions is about money laundering, laundering money and white. It applies to “vitvaska” everything from bribery and drug money to the spoils of war and terror money.

Among those who turned to Panama to open the letterbox are both Mexican drug cartels that companies with links to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

They have received means to divert large sums from countries where the money is taken out. They have got good help to keep their operations hidden from the authorities in all countries of the world.

2. Other letter-box has been designed to enable the holder evade penalties or disqualifications.

This may have used by North Korea to gain access to the Chinese capital for its nuclear program. How could Syria have acted to purchase aviation fuel through a company in Abu Dhabi. How can people in Iran and Russia have done as been subject to economic sanctions from the EU and the United States.

In this category are also Swedish entrepreneur sentenced to disqualification. Among Mossack Fonseca Swedish customers include three men from Vastergotland pushed a poker site in the British Virgin Islands with a turnover of SEK 220 million per year, and in December 2012 was sentenced to serious tax evasion.

3rd Brevlådeföretagen have also earned a third purpose: tax evasion. The owners want to avoid everything from corporate and capital taxes to income and wealth tax.

Here, Nordic banks have been diligent helpers. Nordea said through Mossack Fonseca have helped Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish customers to start the 400 companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands.

Also Norwegian DNB, Danish Jyske bank and Swedish Swedbank has funneled clients on to Panama and Mossack Fonseca, the world’s fourth largest company with “offshore service” of tax havens.

DNB sent as late as at Easter letter to selected clients where they were reminded tax amnesty for those who send a self-correction to the tax authorities. The letter went out then Aftenposten raised questions about the bank’s consulting services.

Long was tax havens absolute bank secrecy. For some years the light has fallen over Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland and other nearby low-tax countries. When the knowledge of secret account holders are also winds out of Panama will be loopholes for corruption, tax evasion and money laundering fewer.