Enquête journalistique internationale sur les paradis fiscaux. Pire qu’on imaginait
Une enquête journalistique internationale – à laquelle Radio-Canada a participé – a mis la main sur une masse impressionnante de documents confidentiels qui font état de transactions financières de plus de 100 000 personnes bien nanties de la planète, dont des centaines de Canadiens.
Résumé de l’enquête sur le site du Consortium international des journalistes d’enquête (l’International Consortium of Investigative Journalists [ICIJ], basé à Washington).
En bref:
- Government officials and their families and associates in Azerbaijan, Russia, Canada, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Mongolia and other countries have embraced the use of covert companies and bank accounts.
- The mega-rich use complex offshore structures to own mansions, yachts, art masterpieces and other assets, gaining tax advantages and anonymity not available to average people.
- Many of the world’s top’s banks – including UBS, Clariden and Deutsche Bank – have aggressively worked to provide their customers with secrecy-cloaked companies in the British Virgin Islands and other offshore hideaways.
- A well-paid industry of accountants, middlemen and other operatives has helped offshore patrons shroud their identities and business interests, providing shelter in many cases to money laundering or other misconduct.
- Ponzi schemers and other large-scale fraudsters routinely use offshore havens to pull off their shell games and move their ill-gotten gains.
Quelques articles sur le site:
How ICIJ’s Project Team Analyzed the Offshore Files
By Duncan CampbellThe ICIJ’s exploration of the secretive world of offshore companies and trusts began after a computer hard drive packed with corporate data and personal information and e-mails arrived in the mail.
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Canadian Senator’s Husband Shifted Money Into Offshore Tax Havens
By Frédéric Zalac, Alex Shprintsen, Zach Dubinsky and Harvey CashoreApril 3, 2013, 6:45 pm
Lawyer Tony Merchant, Canada’s “class action king,” sought secrecy for Cook Islands trust.
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Politicians & Offshore
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Nominee Directors Linked to Intelligence, Military
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By David Leigh, Harold Frayman and James Ball
Companies making use of offshore secrecy include firm that supplied surveillance software used by repressive regimes.
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Meet the Queen of Nevis
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By James Ball
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British woman living on goat-tramped Caribbean outcropping listed as director for more than 1,200 companies.
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How the nominee trick works
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By David Leigh, Harold Frayman and James Ball
Émission Enquête exclusive: Hell’s Angels contre Bandidos ( 1.07.41)
Grosses cylindrées, blousons de cuir et tatouages façon mauvais garçons : les gangs de motards nés aux Etats-Unis se sont aujourd’hui implantés partout dans le monde. Sur le sol américain, les Hell’s Angels et les Bandidos, les plus mythiques de ces groupes, sont étroitement surveillés : ils seraient impliqués dans divers trafics. Une brigade spéciale est même chargée de les infiltrer. En Allemagne ou au Danemark, les deux gangs se livrent une guerre violente. Pour l’instant, la France reste encore épargnée car ces bandes rivales ont scellé un pacte étonnant. Elles se sont partagé le territoire, mais cette alliance précaire peut être remise en cause à tout moment.
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