26. februar 2013
Did you miss the Financial secrecy-conference in November, or would you like to revisit and share the speeches? Presentations and video material from the three day conference is now available.
Day 1: Society, secrecy and the global market:
Visit each speaker’s page to find their presentation in pdf and their speech on film:
- Guttorm Schjelderup: Secrecy jurisdictions
- Frian Aarsnes: How the corporate market works. Anonymity in the global market
- Tim Daniel: Abacha. The kleptocrat’s legacy
- Olav Lundstøl: Resources revenue management in Africa. The case of Zambia and Tanzania
- George A. Papandreou: The financial crisis and the challenges that confronted Greece, the cradle of democracy
See the full video from day 1:
Day 2: Facilitating secrecy
Visit each speaker’s page to find their presentation in pdf and their speech on film:
- Roger Schjerva: Norway’s positions, interests and values
- Jason Sharman: Untraceable shell companies and financial secrecy. An experiment
- Allison Christians: Legal circumventions. When does the form have to give way to the substance in tax matter
- Merete Smith: Lawyer’s duty of confidentiality and new ethical questions
- Jack Blum: Legal privilege and international ‘tax planning’
- Lee A. Sheppard: Corporate tax planning and avoidance
- Daniel Reeves: Offshore tax havens and the financial community that promotes, facilitates and enables them
- Karstein J. Espelid: The Jahre case
See the full video from day 2:
Day 3: Vested interests
Visit each speaker’s page to find their presentation in pdf and their speech on film:
- Frian Aarsnes: Vested interests
- Tina Søreide: Resistance against financial transparency in the South
- Stephen Baker: Some practical experiences in an offshore jurisdiction
- Prem Sikka: The Pin-Stripe Mafia. How accountancy firms destroy societies
- Niels Johannesen: The end of bank secrecy? An evaluation of the G20 tax haven crackdown
See the full video from day 3: