EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE TO PROBE HOW EU FAILED TO PREVENT PANAMA PAPERS ML ABUSES
June 1st, 2016
THE EUROPEAN Parliament voted unanimously yesterday (June 8) to set up an inquiry committee to probe the ‘Panama Papers’ leak, that revealed Panamanian lawyers Mossack Fonseca worked with more than 14,000 banks, law firms and middlemen to set up companies, foundations and trusts for customers to hide and move sometimes crime-tainted money.
The committee will have its first meeting before August and will have 65 MEPs as members and 12 months to present a report to the full parliament. A formal decision on which MEPs will sit on the committee will be made ...
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