Tag Archives | Bank secrecy

L’affaire Cahuzac: a stain on Hollande’s integrity agenda or a wake-up call?

9 April 2013 in Accountability, Politics and government

After four months of denial, Jérôme Cahuzac, former Minister of Budget, finally admitted he had a Swiss bank account in his name, transferred to Singapore in 2009, containing close to €600,000. He has now been placed under investigation over alleged laundering of tax-fraud money. This scandal – which is shaking the French political class and […]

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G20: Tackling tax evasion?

18 June 2012 in G20, Private sector

This week the heads of state from the G20 are meeting in Mexico, where we hope they will take action to meet their 2009 promise to end bank secrecy. One step already taken is making tax evasion a predicate offence for money laundering. What does that mean? Money laundering is defined as taking the proceeds […]

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