Bahamas: new international offshore scandal

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World financial "laundry" and favourite place of "rest" of the Russian regional elite

Bahamas
of Rüdiger Stehn
Bahamas Krus Nelli. According to the International consortium of journalistic investigations (ICIJ), the former Netherlands commissioner of EU Krus Nelli was registered as the director of offshore firm on Bahamas. The European Commission carries out an inspection about possible violation of the code of behavior.

"on September 21 ICIJ published data on more than 175 thousand offshore companies registered on Bahamas from 1990 to 2016. In the list of owners, directors and secretaries of firms a number of world politicians, in particular the Canadian Minister of Finance William Frensis appears Morno, the former Colombian minister of the mining industry of the Caballero Argayes, the vice-president Angola Manuel Domingush of Vicente", reports Site"Deutsche Welle". we Will remind p to

that in April, 2016 of mass media published so-called. "The Panama files" in which there was a speech about the numerous offshore companies to which activity politicians, officials from various countries of the world are related.

As appears from the materials presented on the official site Bank Russia, leaders on the volume of direct investments to Russian Federation are Bahamas, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda. Thus Bahamas enclosed to Russian Federation 5,2 billion dollars (plus of 43% in a year in comparison with the previous period), British Virgin Islands — 2,5 billion (a minus of 19%), the Bermudas — 1,9 billion (plus of 9%), wrote earlier Information company "Regnum" .

we Will note p that some happen frequent guests of Bahamas also presented the regional Russian authorities, officially leaving there "on rest".