The Finance Ministers of countries-EU members agreed to exchange data about the real owners of the assets. About it reports Interfax.
Five countries – Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy and France – took the initiative on the automatic exchange of data about real owners of assets.
Participating in the meeting of the EU Council in Amsterdam, the Deputy President of the European Commission on the issue of the Euro Valdis Dombrovskis confirmed in turn that the Ministers of economy and Finance “pledged to fight against tax evasion and tax fraud”.
“Agreement has been reached 28 States on a pilot project on automatic exchange of information about the real owners (of assets – ed.),” he said, adding that this is done in the development of the Washington initiative of the five countries.
Dombrovskis also informed about the plans “to make the list not interested in cooperating jurisdictions, as well as to determine the necessary countermeasures against them.”
The Ministers called on the European Commission to think of other improvements, for example, on admission to the register of the real owners of the assets, about the relationship between the national registers and the development of automatic exchange of information and other measures.
As you know, one of the most secretive companies in the world – Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca – leaked 11 million documents.
We will remind, on 3 April, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and the international consortium of investigative journalist (ICIJ) published the investigation “the Panama document”, which dealt with numerous off-shore companies used by leaders, politicians, celebrities, famous athletes.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General’s office of Panama launched a criminal investigation into the publication of the so-called “Panama”.
