It is part of the game: from the European Union to Great Britain they pretend not to see what is there for all to see. The Blair case.
New things and well-known things but above all a question: why is the “Pandora Papers” dossier on accounts in tax havens a journalistic investigation and not an investigation of the finance and competent authorities of the various countries? The answer is simple: there is a large international connivance that allows tax havens and illegal methods disguised as legality to flourish. Fiscal hypocrisy is the real evil to be fought: the rich escape, the poor pay.
After that we can also have fun with the names contained in the investigation which is destined to remain a journalistic gossip, albeit well documented, if there are no consequences and investigations by the judiciary and the international police. It is clear that to have investigations a very clear political decision is needed which is to do away with tax havens while ordinary people regularly pay the taxes and services that these criminals in suits also use, in several cases not only political but even men of entertainment, sports, or idols of crowds and social media. It is not a question of a witch hunt but of serious investigations by the competent authorities into tax evaders and tax havens.
“Pandora Papers” is an investigation coordinated by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which reveals the offshore operations of dozens of leading figures from over 90 states, reaching as far as Italy. It is based on about 12 million documents relating to over 25 years of activity, the investigation is the result of the revelations of a source inside the Alemán, Cordero, Galindo & Lee law firm and testifies to the existence of over 29 thousand beneficiaries of companies offshore, intent on hiding part of their enormous wealth in tax havens to escape the tax authorities. The investigation, like the “Panama Files”, lined up operations, in some cases bordering on legality, carried out by 14 international companies hired by wealthy clients to manage billionaire capital. In most cases, the main activity has been to create “offshore” and “trust” structures in tax havens such as Panama, Dubai, the Cayman Islands and in countries where confidentiality is protected from tax controls, such as Monaco and Switzerland.
And perhaps there is no need to go too far on the exotic to run after tax havens: some like Holland we have them in the heart of Europe, perhaps they do not concern individuals but even worse, entire multinationals. For some time we have discovered that Holland is a tax haven that multinationals and also many famous Italian companies such as Luxottica, Ferrero Campari, Exor, the holding company of the Agnelli family, have taken advantage of, and Mediaset.
These are things before everyone's eyes but that the European Union tolerates, as it tolerates that the “frugal” Holland does moral to European countries such as Italy that do not have their accounts in order. It is no coincidence that in the list of shareholders shielded by the veil of offshore companies there is also the Dutch Minister of Economy, in addition to the premier of the Czech Republic, the former head of the British government Tony Blair, the King of Jordan and presidents in charged with countries such as Ukraine, Kenya, Chile, Ecuador. The names of many celebrities from sports, fashion and entertainment stand out on the list. But there are also criminals. Former terrorists. Bankrupts. Drug traffickers. And mafia bosses, including Italians, with their treasurers.
In short, there is a hypocrisy at the highest international institutional levels which is also what allows tax havens outside Europe to thrive. It is okay to investigate tax havens but before that, the European Union must clean up the house.
