However slowly, however piecemeal, progress is being made in forcing tax havens to become less secretive. Yesterday it was the turn of Jersey to sign an agreement with the UK that it will share information about offshore tax payments. Gordon Brown has been sounding tougher too. In his address to US Congress last week was this remarkable sentence: “How much safer would everybody’s savings be if the whole world finally came together to outlaw offshore tax havens?”
THE Garda Fraud Squad raid on the offices of Anglo Irish Bank was unprecedented and could lead to criminal prosecutions, according to legal experts.
Editorial – The Guardian 12 February 2009
At least 90 tax avoidance ‘promoters’ are under investigation, meaning the problem is bigger than we thought
Businesses in the Birmingham area are invited to a FREE one day conference to learn how to safeguard themselves against serious organised crime and money laundering.
The first ever case of human trafficking in Cheshire ended on 23 January 2009, with the sentencing of Cai Hong Yang, 44, at Warrington Crown Court.
At Plymouth Crown Court on 28 November 2008, the Plymouth Asset Recovery Unit secured a confiscation order in the sum of £37,085.00 against a local unemployed man.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has today fined Sindicatum Holdings Limited (SHL) £49,000 and its money laundering reporting officer (MLRO), Michael Wheelhouse, £17,500 for not having adequate anti-money laundering systems and controls in place for verifying and recording clients’ identities. This is the first time the FSA has fined a money laundering reporting officer.
World-Check, in partnership with data quality specialist Datanomic, recently embarked on a project to screen the UK’s Companies House register of companies, company directors and secretaries against World-Check’s global database of high risk individuals and organisations.