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The countries with the largest portion of suppliers coming from tax havens are the United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Estonia, Portugal and the Netherlands (Photo: European Parliament)

Grand Theft Tender? How €56bn went to tax havens

The Juncker Commission was struck by the Luxleaks scandal and Panama Papers but it did not deliver any sound solutions to money-laundering.

In the last 12 years, €56bn from public tenders around Europe went to tax havens and nobody did anything.

Tax haven-based companies win roughly five percent of value of public tenders throughout EU member states, according to a ...

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Piotr Arak is the head of the Polish Economic Institute, a public think tank in Warsaw.

The countries with the largest portion of suppliers coming from tax havens are the United Kingdom, Spain, Poland, Estonia, Portugal and the Netherlands (Photo: European Parliament)

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Piotr Arak is the head of the Polish Economic Institute, a public think tank in Warsaw.

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