This was announced by Trouw and Financieele Dagblad. Tax evasion is not punished, but evasion is punished. It is not known whether the people listed below actually violated the law. There is a huge social debate about tax evasion, because this is considered “unfair”.
Former international Seedorf does not want to respond, despite numerous requests, reports Trouw.
How did Seedorf end up in the Panama Papers?
Seedorf founded his motorcycle racing team, Seedorf Racing, in 2003. He is also partnered by his former Real Madrid teammate, Brazilian Roberto Carlos. In 2005, Seedorf Racing signed a sponsorship rights contract with Image Building Ltd, a company just incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
Image Building is paying €640,000 for sponsorship rights and names Italian jewelery chain Morellato as the final sponsor of the contract. But the contract was sold to the Dutch company Grand Prix Sports Investments & Hospitality (GPSIH). In the end, Morellato, via GPSIH, pays €3 million to Image Building, while Seedorf Racing ends up with just €640,000.
Who are the most or least famous Dutch people on the list?
- Members of the Van der Vorm entrepreneurial family. They are said to have used marine construction. This concerns Bermuda investment funds, which own companies in the British Virgin Islands.
- The founder of clothing company Mexx, Ratan Chadha, was also mentioned as a director of a company in the Bahamas.
- Then there's John Bredenkamp. Interesting details: This Dutch businessman is on the US sanctions list due to illegal arms trade with Zimbabwe.
- Robert van der Aar, one of the Netherlands' biggest bankruptcy fraudsters, is also in the Panama Papers.
- Just like Toin Manders, head of the Liberal Party until mid-2015. According to the Trouw newspaper, Manders was for many years the leader of the Faculty of Laws in The Hague, which helped the Dutch avoid taxes.
- The investigation also includes the name of Bernard Stuyvenga, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Akomo Trading House and former partner at the law firm Greenberg Traurig.
- Then there's Bram van der Kolk, the Dutch programmer who worked in New Zealand with Megaupload's famous Kim.com. Van der Kolk fears New Zealand will extradite him to the United States on charges of copyright infringement.
Small business owners and individuals
Hundreds of Dutch people appear in the Panama Papers, and not just Dutch celebrities. Most of them come from small and medium-sized companies, micro-entrepreneurs and individuals. At first glance, they don't have a lot of assets, but they have protected them from Dutch tax rules in a “clever” way.
At least 200 offshore companies can be linked to the Dutch through documents from Panamanian legal consulting firm Mossack Fonseca & Co. They are located mainly in Panama and the British Virgin Islands, but also in the Seychelles, Samoa or the Bahamas.
In a few weeks, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, will release almost all the names in the Panama Papers. ICIJ is based on the management of Mossack Fonseca & Co., which was leaked on Sunday.
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