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Category: Tax evasion Advocacy

Legal doctrine
Illicit Financial Flows

Public Beneficial Ownership: Can the European Court of Human Rights save financial transparency?

Jean-Philippe Foegle, Advocacy and Litigation Officer at Sherpa comments for Business & Human Rights Resource Centre on the European Court of Justice’s decision (November…
Handbook of proposals
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Handbook of proposals to regulate multinationals

Looking back at the progress made over the last decade and drawing lessons for the future, Sherpa has updated its Handbook of proposals to…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

Rifaat al Assad « Ill Gotten Gains » Case: The Paris court of appeal confirmed the condemnation decision rendered in first instance in 2020

Paris, 9 September 2021 – Today the Court of Appeal confirmed the judgment rendered by the Judicial Tribunal of Paris on June 17, 2020, sentencing Rifaat…
Analysis and recommendations
Illicit Financial Flows

Sherpa Position Paper on the draft law “programming on solidarity development and the fight against global inequalities

Restitution of assets resulting from corruption to affected countries For the past 15 years, Sherpa points out the importance of adopting a law on…
Opinion
Illicit Financial Flows

[Opinion] “Zero tolerance for corruption – NGO Sherpa”

This article has been published on Times of Malta on October 16, 2020. On October 16, 2017, Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered while investigating…
Opinion
Illicit Financial Flows

[Opinion] The Balkany scandal lifts the veil on offshore mecanisms unknown to the public

The Balkany trial must not hide the role played by bank and financial intermediaries in the proliferation of illicit financial flows, antimoney laundering experts…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

Panama Papers: Maltese Attorney General should make the Egrant Inquiry Report public

The French and Maltese anti-corruption organisations, Sherpa and Il-Kenniesa request from the Attorney General of Malta the full publication of the Egrant Inquiry Report.…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

Council of Europe should evaluate Malta taking into account the revelations of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the Forbidden Stories consortium

Council of Europe should evaluate Malta taking into account the revelations of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and the Forbidden Stories consortium Paris, July 13th…
Press release
Civic Space

Opening of the Luxleaks Trial: Whistleblowers are Bearing the Cost of Secrecy

The trial of Antoine Deltour and the other two defendants in the Luxleaks case (1), including journalist Edouard Perrin (2), which starts in Luxembourg…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

Public Country-by-Country Reporting: The European Commission’s Mixed Proposal

One week after the first ‘Panama Papers’ revelations, the European Commission published a patchy proposal for public country-by-country reporting which will not enable us…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

European Commission “Tax transparency package”: when transparency continues to rhyme with confidentiality

Wednesday, 18 March 2015 – Today, the European Commission published its new “Tax transparency package” in response to the Luxleaks scandal. If the proposed…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

France proves to Europe: bank transparency is possible

1 July 2014 – In July 2013, thanks to civil society’s strong involvement and to the determination of some Members of the French Parliament,…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

France: helping tax havens in the name of poor countries’ development

17 June 2014 – A few days before the final passing of the orientation and programming law on development and international solidarity policy, the…
Investigation and report
Illicit Financial Flows

Will CAC-40 get away with its activities in tax haven? – New study by Revue Projet in conjunction with the Tax and Legal Havens platform

Why would the companies in the CAC-40 index have 1548 offshore subsidiaries, listed by Revue Projet (1)? Tax evasion or promotion of “Made in…
Press release
Illicit Financial Flows

2013 Financial Secrecy Index: European Tax Havens blacklisted

7 November 2013 – The Tax Justice Network (TNJ), along with the Tax and judiciary haven platform (la Plateforme des paradis fiscaux et judiciaries)…
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