#TheStoryIsNotDead: Reporter #JanKuciak and his fiancée were found dead this Sunday, killed by a single shot each. Kuciak was working w/ @OCCRP, @investigace_cz, and @irpinvestigates on a story into the Ndrangheta in Slovakia. Here is Kuciak’s final story: https://www.occrp.org/en/amurderedjournalistslastinvestigation/ …
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Murdered Slovak Journalist Was Investigating Prime Minister’s Aide Linked to Suspected Italian Mafia Figure
Murdered Slovak Journalist Was Investigating Prime Minister’s Aide Linked to Suspected Italian Mafia Figure
BEFORE HE WAS murdered last week with a single shot to the chest, and his body left alongside that of his fiancée, who was killed with one shot to the head, the Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak had been amassing evidence that an Italian businessman living in Slovakia was part of the ‘Ndrangheta, a Calabrian organized crime network.
Kuciak’s final, unfinished report for the news site Aktuality.sk, on money-laundering, tax fraud, and drug smuggling by the ‘Ndrangheta in Slovakia, was published on Wednesday by several Slovak websites.
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, or OCCRP, which had supported Kuciak’s work, also published an overview of the investigation.
According to the OCCRP, Kuciak and his colleagues had started their investigation “by looking into the hiring of Maria Troškova, then 27, by Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico as an assistant.”
Fico hired the former Miss Universe contestant and topless model (dubbed “the sexy assistant” by Slovak media) despite her relative lack of political experience. His press department had refused to release her job description, to clarify her position in government, or to say whether she got a security clearance.
But while looking into this story, the reporting team uncovered an even bigger one. As it turns out, Troskova used to be a business partner of Antonino Vadala, 42, an Italian man who now lives in Slovakia and owns a network of agricultural companies in the east of the country.
…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…
Police seize over 5,000 ounces of silver from man’s home
Police seize over 5,000 ounces of silver from man’s home
Last week in the Australian state of Queensland, federal police confiscated a whopping 5,465 ounces of silver (worth roughly $106,000) from a man’s home.
This was part of a larger series of police raids instigated by the Australian Tax Office against individuals suspected of tax evasion.
Two obvious lessons come to mind which bear repeating:
1) As we discussed yesterday, only an idiot commits tax fraud or tax evasion. This goes without saying.
There are far too many completely legitimate ways to reduce or even eliminate what you owe… which means there’s absolutely zero reason to take any chances by wilfully breaking the law.
I know this doesn’t apply to the vast majority of people reading this, but if you are one of the handful of people out there who has been noncompliant with taxes, definitely consider your options to get it fixed.
They will find out eventually.
It’ll be a much better outcome that you step forward and admit a mistake than wait for the inevitable federal agents to kick down your door in the middle of the night.
2) Don’t keep the majority of your assets at home
I’m sure that at least some of the people who were subject to the Australian Tax Authority’s raids probably did commit tax evasion.
But there are probably many who didn’t… people who just happened to end up on the agency’s list through some honest misunderstanding.
Nevertheless, they still had federal police raiding their homes, confiscating anything that looked valuable, including cash and precious metals.
This could happen to anyone. Any of us could end up by mistake on the wrong side of some government agency’s list. It happens to innocent people every single day.
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How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard
How The Rothschilds Made America Into Their Private Tax Fraud Backyard
Back in September 2012 we first presented “the world’s biggest hedge fund nobody had ever heard of”: a small, previously unknown company called Braeburn Capital which, however, managed more cash than even Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund.
How had the little firm operating out of a non-descript office building in Nevada achieved this claim to fame? By managing the cash hoard (now well over $200 billion) of the world’s biggest and most valuable company: Apple.
But what was perhaps more notable is where Braeburn was physically located: Reno, Nevada.
We explained the company’s choice for location with one simple word: “taxes”, or rather the full, and very much legal, avoidance thereof.
Three and a half years later we encounter this quiet Nevada town once again, and once again it is Reno’s aura of tax evasion that brings is to the world’s attention courtesy of a Bloomberg report discussing “The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven.”
Only instead of Apple this time, the focus falls on a far more notorious company: the Rotschilds.
As Bloomberg writes, “last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew Penney, a managing director at Rothschild & Co., gave a talk on how the world’s wealthy elite can avoid paying taxes. His message was clear: You can help your clients move their fortunes to the United States, free of taxes and hidden from their governments. Some are calling it the new Switzerland.”
Ah, the rich irony: years after Obama single-handedly destroyed the secrecy-based Swiss banking model, the U.S. itself has taken over the role of the world’s biggest, if no longer very secret, tax haven, and the epicenter is this modest Nevada city located next to lake Tahoe, which has become the favorite city, if only for tax purposes, for such names as Apple and the Rothschild family.
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