Government requests data to the Bank of Portugal on state investments in offshore – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                         

                 

 
 

The Ministry of Finance asked the Bank of Portugal information on financial investments of public entities in tax havens. It is the Bank of Portugal (BoP) by the statistics department, who reports to the IMF this information. Now Finance will ask the supervisor to disclose all data related to financial investments of public entities in offshore areas.

This Friday, the Assistant Secretary of State for Treasury and Finance, Ricardo Mourinho Félix revealed in Parliament who have requested information from close to a hundred companies and public entities such contacts did not arise any information about applications in countries listed as tax havens.

“we have so far indicated that there are applications countries which are tax havens list, “said the official, in response to Mr José Luís Ferreira, the ENP during the parliamentary debate on public control of banking, scheduled by the PCP.

Mourinho Félix assured that the government was in contact with the IMF to know “where received” information that there would be transfers by public entities and which ones. This information which has now received.
The question had been raised by BE, which presented in Parliament seven diplomas with nine proposals to “tighten the loop” about who uses offshore, including the state.

in a letter, the bloquista Mariana Mortágua wondered if the Government was “aware of accounts, companies or vehicles owned by institutions, public companies or foundations or public participation in countries, territories and regions with privileged tax regimes clearly more favorable “and” accounts or vehicles owned by institutions, companies or public foundations or public participation in jurisdictions in offshore uncooperative “.

Mrs bloquista said to be” essential that the values ​​in question and the types of applications that these public entities are disclosed hold, a duty of transparency of the state but also consistent with the statements repudiating the existence of parallel legal system “.

This week, the Express reported , based on IMF data, the Portuguese State had applied $ 167 million (approximately EUR 148 million) in Jersey Island (only in this case are 131 million dollars) and Jordan.

the theme already had that talk in 2008, when the government of then (PS) also wanted to know the origin of public entities applications in offshore (for 2006) and requested data to the Bank of Portugal.

in April 2008, the Finance, then tutored by Teixeira dos Santos, reported that the data provided by the Bank of Portugal did not allow individualizing entities. Between EUR 178 million, were detected only 42 million, the Financial Stabilization Fund of Social Security. With Sofia Rodrigues