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09-22-2016, 05:02 AM
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Panama paper charges against Aussies
Leading Australian paper thinks it can take years to prove
LAHORE: Criminal charges against Australians with links to the Panama papers could take years to eventuate, a leading Australian newspaper “The Sydney Morning Herald” has quoted Australian Taxation ****** (ATO) deputy commissioner Mark Konza as saying. The newspaper writes: “The Australian Taxation ****** earlier this month revealed that its serious financial crime taskforce, which also involves the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC), had executed search warrants and unan**unced visits across properties in Victoria and Queensland for allegedly serious offences including money laundering and other criminal activity. All up 1,000 entities, involving hundreds of taxpayers – many of which include high-wealth individuals and their lawyers and accountants – are under investigation by the Australian Taxation ******.” The media house adds: “The raids followed AUSTRAC identifying suspicious cross-border movement of funds between Australia and other countries amounting to $2.5 billion linked to more than 1,000 Australian entities. The entities, listed in secret documents belonging to Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca, were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in April, and part of the material was shared on its website. Mr Konza said cases take time to build – and prosecutions are even further apart – as was demonstrated by old cases dealt with under the former Project Wickenby programme. Project Wickenby, which was established in 2006 and lasted almost a decade, resulted in $2 billion in tax liabilities and 47 prosecutions.” The “Sydney Morning Herald” maintains: “The ATO had in April revealed it had identified over 800 individual taxpayers in the Panama papers, many of which had curious structures set up in Hong Kong. Since then more than 100 taxpayers had been contacted and told they would be the subject of compliance action. Further criminal investigations and prosecutions could follow. Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan has said **t all Australians named in the Panama Papers are criminals. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was one of the people named in the papers, but there was ** evidence of wrongdoing.” أكثر... 
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