Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Hundreds of Swedes with Panama documents – Aftonbladet

More than 200 Swedes have so far been identified in the scandal list Panama documents.

Among them are actors, former sports profiles and business leaders.

– We are ready to investigate them, says Anders Bäck, Head of tax.

Giant leak the Panama Paper has revealed a hidden world of secret company registered in some 20 tax havens around the world.

Banks that Nordea has helped wealthy clients to contact the law firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama – whose specialty is taking care of everything around the hidden company formation are, for example, the Seychelles and the British virgin islands.

at 20:30 o’clock on Monday released the international organization for investigative journalism, ICIJ, details of over 200 000 companies constructions that in most cases formed to avoid the tax.

LCHF professor at the list

Over 200 Swedish name is listed in the searchable database.

Man, entrepreneur, 40s, Gothenburg.

the founder of a of the largest Swedish companies for fashion online. Sold a few years ago the majority of the company for many millions.

Man, entrepreneur, 50s, Stockholm.

The founder of one of the largest Swedish companies during the dot-com bubble in the 90s. Has since been involved in a number of other successful companies within the television industry.

Man, business, 40s, Stockholm.

Served as CEO of a leading company in Europe in candy sales. Have now switched to a similar post at the one in Sweden well known company that sells accessories.

Woman, business, 40s, Stockholm.

Does one of the largest production company behind a series of public successes. Have previously worked with to produce TV series.



Law firm: No known connection

Man, nutrition professor, 80 years old, Stockholm.

Have been linked to the largest universities in their careers. Has in recent years made a name for himself in LCHF movement.

financiers, 80s, Upland.

One of Sweden’s most famous financiers who served on the board of some of the country’s largest companies and received a medal from the king. Occurs on several items in Panama documents, including as a middleman, who is reported to have helped others to start letterbox.

Man, IT entrepreneur, 50s, Stockholm.

helped create one of the largest IT succér and has also been one of them in the country for a year paid the most in taxes. Occurs in Panama Documents with links to a company in the British Virgin Islands.

financiers, 70s, western Sweden:

Have a long career in finance and industry and has led one of Sweden’s biggest companies and has served on the boards of investment companies, a bank and several well-known companies. Occurs in Panama documents related to a real estate developer in the British Virgin Islands.

In a number of places in the material appears the Swedish law firm Vinge, with several offices in Sweden and Brussels, and Shanghai, up. During Monday evening declined the company’s CIO in Sweden to comment:

– of our knowledge, we have no connection to Mossack Fonseca.



Götestam: Not guilty reached

The database are also the people dear actor and entrepreneur Staffan Götestam who played Jonathan Lionheart in his youth. When Aftonbladet reaches 63-year-old – who founded the amusement park Junibacken – he explains his presence on the list with a business project that never came.

– We worked with a person who opened a bank account in Hong Kong but it was never something with it. It was a mission that we discovered pretty quickly that we would not get on with.

– I’m not guilty of anything, there was not anything strange ulterior motives or anything related to tax evasion to do, he says .

Ice Hockey Player comforter John Slettvoll, 71, who has played in including Bjorkloven and Swiss Lugano, together with his wife since 2006 had ties to a company in China listed in Panama documents.

– We has lived and worked abroad in Switzerland for 16 years and then have to pay there. Then place the money where they live. How do I put them is a private thing. If there were errors in it, those who have the task to check it to see if there is something wrong that has been committed, he says to Expressen.

One of the Swedes who are in Panama documents have worked in telecommunications industry and also as a consultant for the expansion of Internet telephony in Africa. He has under Panama documents for more than five years had a company in the British Virgin Islands with connections to Luxembourg.

– Yes, I have had a company there but it is completed, he said.

Why does one company in the British virgin islands?

– There are many reasons for that. However, no comments.

On Tuesday begins the Tax Agency’s unit for international transactions analyzing the Swedish names in the database that are made available by the international journalist network ICIJ.

– It is very valuable that we may be part of the this information. It has become easier for us to get information from the former tax havens in the various exchange agreements but we have to still know what to ask for. So of course we welcome these kinds of leaks, says unit manager Anders Bäck.

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