Cabral Caldeira: Panama Papers of the cases will be referred to prosecutors – Jornal de Negócios – Portugal

“The government is monitoring the situation and, if you find any issue that has to do with Portugal, it will be referred to the MP [prosecutors] and will be a matter of justice,” said Caldeira Cabral, the bank of the monthly lunch members of AHP. – Association of Hotels of Portugal in Lisbon

Panama Papers case reveals a “worldwide problem of tax evasion, money laundering, and shows that it is important to work at the level of global institutions, but in particular the European institutions, in solving this problem so that the tax base of the country is not so eroded and deluded by these schemes and these ways of doing things, “considered the Minister of Economy.

” Portugal certainly is not the most important country, but there are Portuguese cases and these cases will be dealt with by the courts, “reinforced the Government member.

the Ministry of Finance had said on Monday that” government is strongly committed to enhancing the fight against fraud and tax evasion “, through mechanisms that reinforce the action capacities of the tax Administration. These mechanisms pass through the “extension of the powers of the Large Taxpayers Unit, with increased monitoring of individual taxpayers with high equity value”, the “legislative authorization to allow access to financial information in Portugal and the exchange of such information between countries” and the “mandatory reporting of multinational groups as to its structure, activities undertaken and distribution of the tax burden in order to early detect abusive tax planning schemes,” he added.

the Ministry led by Mário Centeno further noted that the tax and Customs Authority (aT) cooperates with other jurisdictions in preventing behavior of tax evasion and accompanying disclosures on tax evasion, in particular “through so-called” tax havens “, in order to better carry out the detection of these practices with respect to taxes due in Portugal “.

the case of Panama Papers is an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ, in English acronym), and said 140 names of politicians from around the world, including 12 current and former world leaders.

the research results from a leak and added approximately 11.5 million linked documents the nearly four decades of Panamanian company activity Mossack Fonseca, specialized in capital management and capital with information on over 214,000 “offshore” companies in over 200 countries and territories.

the weekly Expresso and TVI television channel are participating in this investigation in Portugal .