Tuesday, 12 April 2016

LAST MINUTE NEWS – CHIEF OF PORTUGUESE FINANCES WITH MILLIONS IN SWITZERLAND



The Panama continues in Swiss…
The names of an employee of the top in the Finance General Inspection and two families are associated with the scandal known as Swiss leaks, advanced Portuguese TVI.
Filomena Martin Bacelar is now head of service and is among the customers of British bank HSBC, which have, between 2006 and 2007, about (403,000 euros). This is one of the 611 names linked to Portugal (between persons and entities) which together have about 1.4 billion euros placed in the Swiss branch of HSBC - which have helped all these customers to flee to taxes.

Filomena Bacelar, along with her two mentioned family members, appears to have a total of 2.3 million € in the bank, according to research that Portuguese TVI, in partnership with Le Monde and the International consortium of Investigative Journalists published. The official of the Ministry of Finance is one of the 421 names, among 611 connected to Portugal, which have registered tax residence in national territory. Before joining the Inspection General of Finance, Filomena Bacelar held positions at Metro of Porto, in the waters and ANA - Airports and Air Navageção in Transtejo in Parque Expo 98 in Docapesca or the District Hospital of Santarém.

The investigation of Portuguese TVI, however, does not indicate that Filomena Bacelar and the two family members have committed any crime, pointing out that only three names have links to an entity based in a tax haven: a Brothel Investment Holdings Limited, British Virgin Islands. The Brothel Investments Holdings Limited, incidentally, holds the Searchouse Imobiliária, Unipessoal, a company based in Lisbon and managed by Ana Oliveira Bruno, a lawyer involved in the investigation Blanc, net of tax fraud and money laundering.

The account had more money - nearly 144 million - is associated with a national bank. One of which had less is connected to a former minister and current deputy and is a private foundation, Porto, with little more than a thousand euros, also revealed the private television station.
Filomena Bacelar was, for now, the only Portuguese citizen identified in this investigation. TVI, however, does not clarify if the overseer of Finance will or not committed any crime - even though state several times that the Swiss Leaks implies cases of "money laundering or tax evasion," associated with the Geneva agency HSBC bank.

The Swiss leaks scandal broke out when, on Sunday, February 8th, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released confidential documents on the Swiss branch of British bank HSBC, which revealed alleged tax evasion schemes. Among the more than 100,000 customers, there are terrorists, arms dealers and diamonds and known artists such as Tina Turner and John Malkovich.

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