PAIENJENISUL celui de-Al Doilea Imperiu al Marii Britanii

PAIENJENISUL celui de-Al Doilea Imperiu al Marii Britanii ’s_Web:_Britain’s_Second_Empire “The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire“ este un documentar lansat în Mexic în iulie 2017, care detaliază transformarea Regatului Unit dintr-o o super-putere colonială într-o putere financiară globală. Filmul sugerează că City of London Corporation și băncile sale au provocat daune uriase economiei mondiale încă din anii 1960 și că până la jumătate din toată averea offshore (la nivel global) este ascunsă într-una din numeroasele jurisdicții britanice. PS Nici cu Germania nu “mi-e rusine“, ocupa locul 7 in Topul tarilor care ofera servicii financiare bancare care promoveaza evaziunea fiscala. In the 1960s and 1970s, German banks, faced with strong domestic regulations and capital controls, shifted substantial operations abroad, particularly into the deregulated “Euromarkets”2 – notably the City of London and Luxembourg [...] undermining the tight administrative controls over cross-border financial flows and speculative activity of the Bretton Woods system. Deutsche Bank and other German banks became heavily involved in the recycling of Petrodollars during and after the OPEC oil crisis through their London offices. [...] This, in turn, helped attract global banks and by the mid-1980s, 40 of the world’s top 50 banks had a presence in Frankfurt and four fifths of foreign banks in Germany had chosen Frankfurt as their base. [...] Although Germany does not practice banking secrecy like neighboring Switzerland, regulative loopholes, lax enforcement especially for non-residents, and in general, a strong emphasis on confidentiality of tax information have made it an attractive destination for illicit and questionable flows in the past. Major tax evasion (“Steuerhinterziehung in besonders schweren Fällen”) is not a predicate crime for money laundering purposes in Germany. This implies that banks may easily accept money stemming from tax evasion, especially if committed abroad. In addition, the relatively low fines and low number of convictions relating to failures to prevent money laundering by banks and other institutions point to weaknesses in the policing of anti-money laundering rules. The influx of dirty money is facilitated by a narrow set of predicate offenses for money laundering. [...] Over the last 10 years, Germany has confiscated approximately €6 million per year from the Italian mafia but evidence points to the fact that this is just a tiny fraction of the total27 and completely insignificant compared to the €100 billion estimated to be laundered in Germany every year. Following the Arab spring, Germany froze billions of dollars’ worth of assets from countries such as Libya, Tunisia or Egypt, raising the question of how they managed to get to Germany unchecked. Germany has lagged behind other European partners such as France or Switzerland, in pursuing illicit funds from overseas kleptocrats and has played rather an obstructive role when the European Union sought to set up European financial sanctions. chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/