150 kg of Luxembourg documents
Yesterday, the Office of the Special Prosecutor formally received the documents that the Appeal Court in Luxembourg recently ruled that could be handed over to the OSP. The documents were seized during three days of house searches at Kaupthing Luxembourg, now Banque Havilland, and other locations. Who those 19 parties are who, together with Banque Havilland, tried to oppose the handing-over still remains in the dark.
The paper documents weigh 150 kg but in addition to that there are electronic documents. Needless to say, these are copies so the Luxembourg authorities retain the documents as well. Due to security, the OSP didn’t announce that they had the documents until after they received them.
This being a prosecutor’s office there was most surely no champagne to celebrate. The real feast lies in the 150 kg of documents and the electronic data.
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Perhaps now we will start to see some action and get some long overdue information. Embezzlement at the highest level ?
Nina Foster
9 Feb 11 at 6:45 pm
Although this article written by Andrew Pierce in the
Mail on line is from last year it is worth a read.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293533/Revealed-The-dirty-past-tax-exile-whos-new-Tory-Treasurer.html
Nina Foster
9 Feb 11 at 9:03 pm
It will take time to trawl trough the 1,5 tons of documents – but I’m sure that the OSP staff has an inkling to what’s in them and will make targeted use of this mountain of documents. Timewise, it’s difficult to tell but I guess that there might be some charges in cases related to the three big banks later this year. Considering the level of complications – web of companies, money flowing in and out of companies in tax havens – it does take time to get a grasp of it all.
Sigrún Davíðsdóttir
10 Feb 11 at 4:46 pm