レポートには、カルメンティッセンが作品を買うためにタックスヘイブンを使用するように非難
Un informe acusa a Carmen Thyssen de usar paraísos fiscales para comprar obras
El Consorcio de Periodistas de Investigación publica el estudio, tras 15 meses de pesquisas
El organismo ha rastreado los movimientos de 120.000 empresas y 130.000 personas
Manuel Morales / EFE Madrid / Washington 4 ABR 2013 - 13:38 CET
A report accuses Carmen Thyssen to use tax havens to buy works
The Consortium of Investigative Journalists published the study, after 15 months of investigations
The agency has tracked the movements of 120,000 businesses and 130,000 people
Manuel Morales / EFE Madrid / Washington 4 ABR 2013 - 13:38 CET
A report after 15 months of investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has uncovered the identity of users of tax havens around the world, among which is the Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza. The study claims that Carmen Thyssen "he used a company based in the Cook Islands to buy works of art auction houses such as Sotheby's and Christie's".
This medium has made contact with the Thyssen, who has refused to make any statement on this issue because it is "a particular theme of the collection" Carmen Thyssen, also "today is out of Madrid", have pointed from the gallery. Some reports suggest that the work Watermill at Gennep, an oil painting that Van Gogh painted outdoors cold November 1884, was bought at auction by Sotheby's for Carmen Thyssen through Nautilus Limited, a consortium based in the Cook Islands .
The website states that the lawyer ICIJ Carmen Thyssen Rotondo Jaime Russo acknowledged that facilitates such practices move a collection "transnational" art. This achieves "maximum flexibility" when moving from country to country tables. From Rotondo Russo's office has reported that this is traveling, so it has not been possible to obtain their views.
'Water Mill at Gennep' by Van Gogh. / THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
In a preview of ICIJ research published today on its website, the agency reports that it has agreed to a 2.5 million digital files, mainly British Virgin Islands, the Cook and other "hiding" offshore . The research explores the movements of offshore companies and trusts 120,000 and about 130,000 people, including Eastern European billionaires and Indonesia, Russian business executives, American doctors and arms dealers.
The documents analyzed show "how offshore financial secrecy has spread worldwide, enabling rich and well connected evade taxes and has fueled corruption and economic problems in countries rich and poor alike," the ICIJ . The file sizes studied is "160 times higher" than the leak of WikiLeaks 2010 State Department documents from the U.S., according to the organization.
After learning of this scandal, the European Commission has urged the governments of the 27 to advance their proposals to combat tax evasion and to agree a definition of "tax haven" that would create "blacklists" to act against countries that host evaders. EC spokesman Olivier Bailly would not comment on the daily news conference of the institution the information disseminated by the ICIJ, but Brussels has said that there should be "no complacency with individuals, companies or third countries that violate European or national laws to organize tax fraud ".
The European Commission has urged the governments of the 27 to advance their proposals to combat tax evasion
Bailly Commission recalled that last December presented a package of measures and recommendations to strengthen the fight against tax evasion, as a call for governments to tax conventions will ensure that other countries do not let "loopholes". According to calculations by the Brussels authorities, fraud and tax evasion to the Twenty wasting a billion euros a year.
To analyze all the information uncovered by the ICIJ has benefited from the work of 86 journalists from 46 countries and with the collaboration of the British media as The Guardian and the BBC, the French Le Monde and The Washington Post. The details of the investigation will be published in installments until April 15 while continuing review of many of these documents, has advanced the International Consortium of Journalists.
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