Photo from
March 20, 2013 shows ex budget minister Jerome Cahuzac at a
handover ceremony
at the Finance Ministry, Paris (AFP, Miguel Medina)
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PARIS —
French ministers will declare their assets publicly by April 15, the prime
minister's office said Monday, as the government seeks to limit the damage from
an ex-minister's tax fraud scandal.
The
government will also put forward a law on financial transparency among
ministers and other top officials by April 24, Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault
said in a statement.
The move
comes as President Francois Hollande's government scrambles to contain a
scandal surrounding former budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who last week was
charged with tax fraud after admitting to having an undeclared foreign bank
account.
Ayrault
said measures to boost financial transparency would be presented to a cabinet
meeting on Wednesday and that he would meet with the speakers and faction
chiefs of the lower house National Assembly and upper house Senate the
following day.
"The
prime minister is preparing... a package of measures to ensure complete
transparency on the assets of politicians and staff working with ministers, the
president and the prime minister," Ayrault said.
He said
measures would also be taken to "more severely punish breaches of the
financial law and ethics and integrity rules, and to strengthen the fight
against tax fraud and tax havens".
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