Saturday, April 30, 2016

Panama roles: a trip to the discrete world of Pereira Coutinho – TVI24

name Goldeneye will be, for most Portuguese, synonymous with entertainment and espionage, referring to the 17th film in the James Bond saga. But for the entrepreneur Vasco Pereira Coutinho is much more than that. Goldeneye Finance Services is the name of the company created in 2009 in the British Virgin Islands as the nerve center of a part of his empire, which features substantial real estate investments in several countries.

Vasco Pereira Coutinho is one of the discrete Portuguese entrepreneurs. Friend Ricardo Salgado and brother of John Pereira Coutinho (owner of the SAG), has the Portuguese Temple of your vehicle property development. Another of the reference asset is the management of GEF assets. Information leakage of Panamanian society Mossack Fonseca is now showing how Vasco Pereira Coutinho helped in recent years an offshore structure web to conduct their business.

Documents Express and TVI consulted in connection with their participation the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), from the provided by the German newspaper file “ Süddeutsche Zeitung ” indicates that Vasco Pereira Coutinho is the final beneficiary of a whole structure involving offshore in the Bahamas, the US state of Delaware, the British Virgin Islands and Malta.

a letter of September 2015 Mossack Fonseca on the origin declaration of two funds of Pereira Coutinho companies indicates that the assets resulting from personal savings of the entrepreneur. The document clarifies that Goldeneye was to finance a real estate project in South America but also had investments in China. An internal scheme Mossack Fonseca, stroke three years earlier, shows that Goldeneye controlled Try-Vin Holdings, Malta, which, in turn, held the Valco Holding (Virgin Islands), and 90% of the Portuguese company City Port – Real Estate Investments.

According to Mossack, the Valco aimed to manage investments in other companies. It was from this offshore Vasco Pereira Coutinho invested $ 180,000 to buy 50% of the company Prominvest, and has borrowed € 530,000 to the abovementioned City of Porto. The all offshore accounts will be associated in BCP, according to Mossack Fonseca.

Express and TVI tried to contact Vasco Pereira Coutinho through the offices of Temple, but the businessman, out of the country, did not respond to questions.

The company Port City, established in 2004, is managed by the two sons of Pereira Coutinho (Diogo and Vasco) and is dedicated to the buying and selling of real estate. It has a registered capital of 500 thousand euros. By 2012 he accumulated a liability of around 20 million euros, which the following year was substantially reduced.

Prominvest is the company that developed the project Muxima Plaza, a complex of housing, offices and commerce in the center of Luanda, Angola, for which is expected a total investment of 198 million dollars (175 million euros at current exchange rates). This figure venture in the Temple of the project portfolio on its website.

In addition to the real estate business, Vasco Pereira Coutinho has investments in other areas, including a unit of coffee roasting in Macau.

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