whistleblowers: wikileaks, snowden i...

[hazard]

Englezi bi mogli malo govna da jedu povodom ovoga. Kao sto neko vec rece, pola tih ofsor zona su neke eks-teritorijalne jurisdikcije Krune™. Kada bi britanska vlada to stvarno htela, mogla bi da zatvori ofsor industriju Devicanskih ostrva skoro pa preko noci - samo naravno postoje jaki lobiji u Sitiju koji su protiv toga. Mislim, pitam se pitam, ko je od restlova britanske kolonijalne imperije napravio poreske rajeve? Da nisu mozda londonski finansijeri? 

 

Inace, da se ima politicke volje, za par meseci bi se resio problem poreskih osfor destinacija. Zabranis skoro sve transakcije od i ka takvim mestima iz svoje drzave, a ono sto ostavis dozvoljeno maksimalno maltretiras nekom birokratijom i papirologijom i trazis milion dokaza odakle ti pare, sta ce ti, zasto saljes tamo ili primas bas odande, itd. itd. itd. Kada bi to uradile recimo, sve zemlje EU, OECD i G20, vrlo brzo bi se stvar razresila a neka devicanska ostrva shvatila da im je bolje da zive od masovnog turizma i proizvodnje ruma kao vecina njihovih suseda.

[Dr Arslanagić]

Čuj, jaki lobiji u Sitiju... Pa torijevci su partija kojoj je takav modus operandi praktično deo ideologije.

[Dr Arslanagić]

FN izgleda :) (nista zvanicno za sada, samo nagadjanja)

 

oh! 

[hazard]

Inace ako ste novinar, bolje vam je™ da ne idete na Britanska devicanska ostrva, poljubicete vrata:

 

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/04/04/star-reported-denied-entry-to-british-virgin-islands-and-deported.html

 

 

Why a Star reporter was denied entry to British Virgin Islands When a Star journalist went to the British Virgin Islands to see whether reforms to combat tax evasion were working, he was detained at the border and put on the first plane out.

TORONTO STAR Order this photo

Toronto Star reporter Marco Chown Oved poses in front of a 10-seat Cessna in San Juan, Puerto Rico before the short flight to Tortola, British Virgin Islands, where he was detained at the border and then deported. Despite a scheduled interview with the governor of the British Overseas Territory, immigration officials wouldn't let the journalist in.

By: Marco Chown Oved Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Apr 04 2016

For an island that claims to be a major Caribbean tourist destination, it’s sure hard to get to the British Virgin Islands.

The airstrip on the principal island of Tortola is so short that big planes can’t land, forcing visitors to fly to Puerto Rico and switch to a small 10-seat Cessna for the final 40-minute hop.

 

I climbed aboard along with a British banker and his family and was instructed to sit in the co-pilot’s seat next to Danielle, our captain. When Danielle held open the window with one hand and manoeuvred the plane onto the runway with the other, I knew this wasn’t going to be a typical trip.

 

As we took off, I rehearsed what I would say at the border. While the BVI doesn’t require visas from Canadians, as soon as I said I was a journalist, I was told I would need a permit. No one could tell me which one, however.

 

Weeks before, after securing an interview with the islands’ British-appointed governor, I was instructed to obtain a film permit, even though I wouldn’t be filming. When I submitted my application, they told me I didn’t need one. Instead, I should get a work permit. But the work permit couldn’t be issued without a film permit. And around and around it went.

 

After a bumpy flight, we entered a nearly deserted terminal and the lone immigration officer asked me what I had come to do.

 

“Interview the governor,” I replied.

 

He glanced up and peeled back the corner of his desktop calendar like a poker player looking at his cards. Head moving back and forth, he compared my passport to whatever was underneath before ushering me into an office with shabby wooden furniture and a broken air conditioner.

 

MARCO CHOWN OVED

A 10-seat Cessna sits on the tarmac at Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. This is the plane that was used to deport reporter Marco Chown Oved from the BVI when he was detained at the border.

 

 

“Wait here,” he said and locked the door behind him.

 

After weeks of phone calls, I had determined that no one in the BVI was interested in talking.

 

Neither the premier, the minister of finance, nor the head of the financial regulation body would agree to meet me. The director of the business college balked at a sit-down interview. The head of a major law firm declined an off-the-record chat through her assistant.

 

This is a place that doesn’t tolerate scrutiny. In 2013, shortly after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published a leak of documents showing that anonymous BVI companies were being used by government officials from around the world, a French reporter with Le Monde witnessed a high school teacher instruct her class about the threat posed by journalists.

 

“ICIJ has caused us a lot of harm,” she told the students. “We have to defend ourselves. Otherwise we will lose our jobs and our income.”

 

During the same trip, BVI’s first lady, Lorna Smith, walked out of an interview as soon as she discovered the reporter, Anne Michel, was collaborating with the ICIJ.

 

Knowing this, I didn’t mention the ICIJ. I approached local officials sympathetically, saying I wanted to present their side of the story, to understand how their country had been affected by the negative attention. I knew they were hesitant; I didn’t know they were hostile.

 

A tall woman entered the office and introduced herself as Officer Robertson, head of immigration. I explained that I had an appointment with the governor and had submitted the necessary paperwork. She picked up the phone, spoke for a minute, then said: “We have no trace of you.”

 

I asked her to call the governor’s office. No can do. I pulled out all the official letters, documents and itineraries I had submitted and offered to show her the emails from the governor’s assistant. Nothing would make her budge.

 

“I cannot admit you,” she said. “No one is allowed to work in the BVI without a work permit.”

 

I protested that many journalists had been admitted without permits. I argued that I was being transparent and had nothing to hide. If she made it impossible to enter the country openly as a journalist, future reporters would be forced to sneak in posing as tourists. She was unmoved.

 

(An Australian documentary film crew, another media partner in the ICIJ investigation and set to arrive days after me, didn’t board their flight after hearing of my experience. Instead, they chartered a yacht and arrived claiming to be tourists. Immigration interrogated them for an hour and eventually allowed them in, but they were only able to film with a secret camera.)

 

In a last-ditch effort, I suggested Robertson might get in trouble for sending away someone who had been invited by the head of state. She smiled and simply said: “The governor will be informed.”

 

The next plane landed barely an hour after I arrived. A group of South African musicians sauntered through in their Ray Bans and Yankees caps and had their passports stamped immediately. Officer Robertson informed me that the plane was returning empty to Puerto Rico and I was quickly bundled aboard. In total, I spent one hour and five minutes in the BVI.

 

In San Juan, the American border guard laughed when I told him my story.

 

“They wouldn’t let in a journalist? What are they afraid of?” he asked.

 

 

That’s a good question, I said.

 

[braca]

Ipak je Marine & drustvo u pitanju...

[dragance]

I ekspresno podignute prijave protiv "njenog drustva".

[kud u maglu Simoviću]

https://www.krik.rs/najpoznatiji-srbi-koji-se-pojavljuju-u-panama-papers/

 

srbi u panami. siniša mali i otac mu i zajedniči pajtos delić, gospodja mišković, hamović, lazarević, drakulić, šaper, andjić(kum s. miloševića)...

[Prospero]

PARIS — Marine Le Pen’s National Front lashed out Monday against media suggesting the French far-right party might be involved in the Panama Papers leaks about offshore tax havens, threatening to sue anyone who suggested such a link.

 

Jérome Fenoglio, editorial director of Le Monde, set off speculation when he told RTL radio that his newspaper would publish proof Tuesday that a “major French political party” was cited in the leaks.

 

Before Le Monde could publish its article, Frédéric Chatillon — a longtime friend of Le Pen, and head of a communications firm named Riwal that frequently works with her party — wrote in a Facebook post that he was concerned about being cited in the Panama Papers.

 

According to Chatillon, who is under investigation on suspicion of illegal campaign financing for the Front, he and several associates sought to invest profits in Asia in 2012. A local firm advised them to set up a shell company, owned by a separate entity in the British Virgin Islands. That entity, he said, had been created by Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, which is at the heart of the tax evasion scandal, though Chatillon said he was not aware of its existence.

 

Chatillon added that he had shown two investigating journalists documents proving that this operation had been “perfectly legal.”

 

After Chatillon’s post the National Front published a statement refuting any connection with the Panama Papers.

 

“The National Front is not involved in the Panama Papers affair and will not tolerate scandalous allegations being made on its behalf,” the statement said. “It will not hesitate to pursue legally anyone who engages in this sort of defamation.”

 

Without commenting directly on Chatillon’s statement, the party went on to argue that other parties had not been considered “involved” in the scandal because one of their current or former members, or their employers, happened to be mentioned in the papers.

 

Millions of files linked to Mossack Fonseca were leaked to the paper Süddeutsche Zeitung, exposing the tax arrangements of dozens of politicians and leaders.

[Prospero]

https://www.krik.rs/najpoznatiji-srbi-koji-se-pojavljuju-u-panama-papers/

 

srbi u panami. siniša mali i otac mu i zajedniči pajtos delić, gospodja mišković, hamović, lazarević, drakulić, šaper, andjić(kum s. miloševića)...

 

Šta znam, nema ništa baš zanimljivo.

[borris_]

Sta bi trebalo biti zanimljivije od ovoga? Gradonacelnik i tata mu imaju racun tamo ( pitam se zasto) i nije zanimljivo.

[Aion]

Englezi bi mogli malo govna da jedu povodom ovoga. Kao sto neko vec rece, pola tih ofsor zona su neke eks-teritorijalne jurisdikcije Krune™. Kada bi britanska vlada to stvarno htela, mogla bi da zatvori ofsor industriju Devicanskih ostrva skoro pa preko noci - samo naravno postoje jaki lobiji u Sitiju koji su protiv toga. Mislim, pitam se pitam, ko je od restlova britanske kolonijalne imperije napravio poreske rajeve? Da nisu mozda londonski finansijeri? 

 

Inace, da se ima politicke volje, za par meseci bi se resio problem poreskih osfor destinacija. Zabranis skoro sve transakcije od i ka takvim mestima iz svoje drzave, a ono sto ostavis dozvoljeno maksimalno maltretiras nekom birokratijom i papirologijom i trazis milion dokaza odakle ti pare, sta ce ti, zasto saljes tamo ili primas bas odande, itd. itd. itd. Kada bi to uradile recimo, sve zemlje EU, OECD i G20, vrlo brzo bi se stvar razresila a neka devicanska ostrva shvatila da im je bolje da zive od masovnog turizma i proizvodnje ruma kao vecina njihovih suseda.

Zasto bi onemogucavao legalno poslovanje preko ofsor zona? Osnovni problem sa ofsor kompanijama je mogucnost da se od poreskih organa i policije sakrije pravo vlasnistvo, a ne poreski inzenjering ili smanjenje rizika poslovanja. Recimo, mere koje ti predlazes bi potpuno unistile srpsku privredu.

[Aion]

Sta bi trebalo biti zanimljivije od ovoga? Gradonacelnik i tata mu imaju racun tamo ( pitam se zasto) i nije zanimljivo.

Gde si video to za gradonacelnika i njegovog tatu?

[borris_]

Mozda sam napravio glupost ne procitavsi clanak vjerujuci napisanom ispod postavljenog clanka. Ako jesam izvinjavam se.

[borris_]

Zasto bi onemogucavao legalno poslovanje preko ofsor zona? Osnovni problem sa ofsor kompanijama je mogucnost da se od poreskih organa i policije sakrije pravo vlasnistvo, a ne poreski inzenjering ili smanjenje rizika poslovanja. Recimo, mere koje ti predlazes bi potpuno unistile srpsku privredu.

Ima problem. Kako objasniti obicnom covjeku koji steze kais od 2008. (I duze) da kompanije legalno izbjegavaju placanje poreza. Nece to jos dugo da izdrzi.

[Aion]

I ja sam samo letimicno pogledao, ali mi se cini da se Mali tek posredno dovodi u vezu sa nekim od kompanija sa spiska. Jako bi bilo zanimljivo da se sazna ko je vlasnik one cetri firme kojima je Sinisa Mali direktor (ili je bio direktor).