Manuel Fernandez de Sousa, president of Pescanova. (Photo: Stock File)
President of Pescanova reactivated society offshore when it collapsed multinational
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Friday, April 22, 2016, 2:30 (GMT + 9)
Manuel Fernandez de Sousa, president of Pescanova, revived one of his companies offshore when the scandal broke of the multinational company. The information was revealed in a report from Confidential based on information contained in the “papers of Panama,” the leaked documents in which explores the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The Spanish entrepreneur had shares Sodesco, the company that controlled the majority of its stake in Pescanova, in a company offshore based in the Virgin Islands.
According to Confidential , on July 10, 2013, during the crisis by the collapse of the Pescanova, a lawyer in Geneva, Alain B. Levy, sent an email to the Panamanian study Mossack Fonseca to request a certificate attesting that society International Finance Gestion SA was low since 2004 and that all goods that had managed the company 8,564 shares of another company called Sodesco- had been transferred to the beneficiary shareholder, ie Fernandez de Sousa.
A few days later, July 17 of that year, the employer resigned as president of Pescanova, after it came to light an alleged scam of the Galician company, and a report by KPMG revealed that the group operated a network of companies offshore in various tax havens.
According to reports Confidential , the main shareholder of Pescanova also had their own ‘offshore’ . In the case of Fernandez de Sousa, documents Mossack Fonseca reveal that at least one of them was registered in the Virgin Islands in October 1998.
That society had ‘died’ in 2005, after the president of Pescanova not paid the fee for that year, and was ‘revived’ in 2013, when the scandal broke Pescanova.
Confidential reports that the certificate requested the Panamanian firm, Fernandez de Sousa tried to “order their former offshore and put everything in your name with the idea exculpate the rest of the council. ”
It also indicates that the documentation Mossack Fonseca does not reflect that Sousa had made such accreditation or what members of council based in the Virgin Islands wanted to exculpate company, but “leave open the door for Fernandez Sousa provide documentation proving what he says to leave it collected “
Source:. Confidential
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