Macri, former private secretary of Nestor Kirchner and Lionel Messi appear among the 570 Argentine clients that operated with Mossack Fonseca
in the long list of customers around the world they registered offshore activities there are hundreds of Argentines, including political leaders, celebrities and businessmen linked to power. All stories will be published from Monday NATION
Listed among others, President Mauricio Macri.; former private secretary of Nestor Kirchner, Daniel Muñoz; the mayor of Lanús, Nestor Grindetti and several businessmen linked to Kirchner. Even the documents reveal data on an offshore company of Lionel Messi, unknown to the Spanish treasury.
Macri appeared as a manager in a company in the Bahamas, Fleg Trading Ltd. was not a shareholder of the firm, so it was not obliged to declare in his affidavit.
nATION, in collaboration with Channel 13, analyzed more than 11 million documents of offshore companies, in an investigation led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ, in English ) and the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The records allow us to know that Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian studio known for making efforts in tax havens, has hundreds of Argentine customers, many of them considered “VIP”.
Setting up a company in a tax haven does not constitute any crime in itself, unless it is proved to have been a vehicle to launder assets, realize a tax evasion or other crimes. The world’s offshore is a broad global industry bankers, lawyers, accountants and other intermediaries working coordinated to protect financial secrets of their clients.
Fleg Trading Ltd
Macri joined together with his father and brother Mariano, the board of an offshore company registered in the Bahamas since 1998, identified as Fleg Trading Ltd. was it a derivation of holding that Macri had assembled in Argentina and Brazil. Fleg Trading Ltd. operated until 2009, when Macri serving as head of city government, although the documents analyzed NATION then not clarify if the current president was linked to that offshore company or had already retired.
“This company, was intended to participate in other non-financial and investment or holding in Brazilian companies. he was linked to the family business group. Hence Mr. Mauricio Macri was occasionally designated as a director, without shareholding “, held spokesmen president. And they stressed: “The performance of Mauricio Macri was circumstantial and only formally covered office in the”
Nestor Grindetti, former finance minister Macri during his tenure in the City and current mayor of Lanus. also appears in the records of Mossack Fonseca. He managed a company registered in Panama and a bank account in Switzerland. It operated offshore between July 2010 and July 2013. The study Mossack Fonseca interceded to grant a “special power” the mayor of Lanús to handle Mercier International, as recorded in the public deed registered in Panama on July 2, 2010.
on July 15, 2010 the company gave another power to open, manage and sign an account in the bank Clariden Leu AG, based in Zurich, Switzerland. Mercier International decided not to renew his special power to Grindetti in 2013. Consulted by the Nation, near the mayor admitted that they received the power of Mercier International to conduct financial and real estate investments that never materialized and argued that not remembered receiving the second power to manage the bank account in Switzerland.
also kirchneristas
Several leaders and businessmen linked to Kirchner during the past twelve years also operated offshore, despite trumpeting by savings in pesos and investments in the country. Daniel Muñoz, private secretary and shadow of Nestor Kirchner during his presidency was active in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands from 2013, when he was outside the civil service.
Muñoz and wife, Carolina Pochetti, were linked to Gold Black Limited, a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands, with the aim of buying property in the United States.
in January 2015, Muñoz and Pochetti became in nominal shareholders of Black Gold Limited and began to appear in the papers with his name. Its link with the offshore company, however, is preliminary. It is that since 2013, the director of Black Gold was Sergio Todisco, a businessman from Mar del Plata. In dialogue with the NATION, this marplatense admitted he was manager of the company for his “friendship” with former president and Pochetti secretary and indicated that its role was “administrative” and “figurative”.
Offshore football
the offshore activity not only tempts the world of politics. The best football player in the world, Lionel Messi opened several companies in tax havens. According to the Spanish treasury it was to evade million euros from advertising contracts. In Mossack Fonseca records contained a new offshore company hitherto unknown to the Spanish autoridade. Panama-based Mega Star Enterprises Inc. His father Jorge Messi, the man who handles his accounts, is your partner in the offshore company
This means repeatedly tried to communicate with the Messi family, but received no response in any of its Argentine and Spanish phones as well as in your emails.
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