A former
chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu,
will on Thursday be part of a panel to discuss the Panama Papers leak as they
affect Africa.
The forum is
organised by the European Parliament Inquiry Committee, PANA, following
revelations published by a consortium of international media, including PREMIUM
TIMES, showing secretive offshore companies used by powerful individuals and
criminals to hide wealth, evade taxes and commit fraud.
The event
will hold in Strasbourg France on Thursday, April 6.
The
committee, which had been working since July last year had held a series of
public hearings with the journalists who revealed the Panama Papers,
representatives of international organisations, academics, the business
society.
The Members
of the Committee have now decided to hold a hearing on “The impact of the
schemes revealed in the Panama Papers on developing countries”.
Information
from the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, reveals that members of the
PANA Committee will use the meeting to get a better understanding of the impact
of money-laundering and tax evasion on developing countries.
“The Members
of the Committee will hear about the experience and findings of relevant
stakeholders (journalist and experts in taxation and money-laundering) in this
area, with a focus on the level of cooperation between EU and African
authorities, the difficulties faced by them and the deficiencies observed in
the existing legal framework in this field (including, if appropriate evidence
of no respect of EU law),” one of the released information said.
Mr. Ribadu
will be part of a panel that will discuss Panama Papers and Africa alongside Carlos
Lopez, a former UN representative, as well as Alvin Mosloma, the founding
executive director of Tax Justice Network Africa.
Others are
Jean Ziegler, an author from Switzerland, Will Fitzgibbon, the International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ICIJ, reporter focusing on the Panama
Papers impact in Africa and De Pasquale, an Italian prosecutor.
(Premium
Times)
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