Yahoo – AFP,
September 29, 2016
Copenhagen (AFP) - The Danish tax authority said on Thursday it had paid an anonymous source almost six million kroner (0.81 million euros, $0.9 million) for leaked data from the Panama Papers on hundreds of Danes.
Copenhagen (AFP) - The Danish tax authority said on Thursday it had paid an anonymous source almost six million kroner (0.81 million euros, $0.9 million) for leaked data from the Panama Papers on hundreds of Danes.
The
government justified the payment earlier this month saying it needed to take
all necessary measures to catch tax evaders.
"The
material contains the number of files on Danes that we expected and the quality
is on a par with the sample cases we were given before," Jim Sorensen, a
division head at the agency, said in a statement.
The agency
would now analyse the material in more detail, he said.
The Danish
government said on September 7 that it would pay an amount in the "lower
millions" of kroner to the anonymous source for information on between 500
and 600 Danish taxpayers from the Panama Papers.
In April,
media outlets published details of murky offshore financial dealings gleaned
from 11.5 million leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm -- the so-called
"Panama Papers".
The leaks
saw a host of high-profile politicians, celebrities and sports stars
embarrassed over their assets in tax havens.
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