Virgin Islands Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/virgin-islands/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 11 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Virgin Islands Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/virgin-islands/ 32 32 Cameron ridiculed for omissions from his anti corruption summit https://jjcornish.com/2016/05/cameron-ridiculed-omissions-anti-corruption-summit/ Wed, 11 May 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/05/cameron-ridiculed-omissions-anti-corruption-summit/ Despite Britain’s Prime Minister labelling his country  fantastically corrupt, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s in London for summit meeting called to address graft internationally. Premier David Cameron ridicule by not inviting Fifa, Panama or British Virgin Island to the gathering. ends intro Until he raised the diplomatic storm with Nigeria with his unguarded comments to Queen […]

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Despite Britain’s Prime Minister labelling his country  fantastically corrupt, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s in London for summit meeting called to address graft internationally.

Premier David Cameron ridicule by not inviting Fifa, Panama or British Virgin Island to the gathering.

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Until he raised the diplomatic storm with Nigeria with his unguarded comments to Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister David Cameron was being called brave for calling an anti-corruption summit so soon after the Panama Papers revealed where the super rich were hiding their money.

Cameron will announced that foreign firms  owning  property in Britain  will have to declare their assets publicly in a bid to stamp out money-laundering.

One in 10 properties in the salubrious London West end are owned by foreigners.

One in three international tax havens is British, putting the UK under pressure to do more to stop dodging costing  governments – many of them in developing countries – $170 billion a year.

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