Already 4.2 million euros in tax revenues have generated criminal proceedings were opened due to the revelations of the “Panama Papers”. The Hesse’s Finance Minister Thomas Schaefer called exact Numbers.
In the Wake of the revelations of the “Panama Papers” are launched in around 150 cases of criminal tax proceedings or pending proceedings have been supported. The tax revenues were nationwide with 4.2 million euros, said Hesse’s Finance Minister Thomas Schäfer in Frankfurt.
Hesse evaluates nationwide leader the results of the financial flows in the Central American tax haven. This is an eight-member team of investigators from the tax administration in Kassel, Germany for one and a half years, together with the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA).
The Hessian Minister of Economics, Thomas Schaefer, is happy with the tax revenue
Three years ago, an international media network, a tremendous mountain of data was leaked had revealed Details about letter box company in Panama. Thus, politicians, business people and celebrities worldwide were under pressure. In the fight against money laundering and tax fraud the Federal criminal police office had bought in the summer of 2017, the “Panama Papers”.
Control Union calls for more staff
Worldwide, there have been arrears of the equivalent of more than one billion euros, had reported at the beginning of April, NDR, WDR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, the first in the spring of 2016 in Germany, the backgrounds of the “Panama Papers” published. In Germany alone had so far come to around 150 million euros, it said.
Many procedures are not yet complete, said the Hessian Minister of Finance Schäfer to this number, which he confirmed. But he expected that the current tax will increase more profit of 4.2 million euros “significant”. The German tax trade Union promises from the analysis of the documents of revenue in a large amount for the Treasury. Chairman Thomas Eigenthaler, said in the radio program of the German radio station Deutschlandfunk that it was important that the authorities would be equipped with more personnel and international cooperation would be stepped up.
nob/kle (dpa, dlf)
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