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Panama is prepared to help India carry forward its probe in the 2016 Panama Papers leakage case which featured the names of a number of Indian celebrities and service tycoons.

In an exclusive interview to ToI, Panama foreign minister Janaina Tewaney said Panama is prepared to exchange info with India and to brief Indian authorities about the progress it has actually made to ensure transparency in its monetary system.The minister, while applauding Indias fight versus black cash, stated she had actually conveyed the same to her counterpart S Jaishankar in a meeting earlier today.

This is the first public assurance of support by a high-level political authority in Panama for Indian investigations which, according to the federal government, detected undisclosed credits amounting to Rs 20,353 crore in the Panama and Paradise Papers leak.Tewaney, who has Indian roots, is in India to take part in the Pravasi Bhartiya Divas as an unique invitee.

She also represented her country in the Voice of the Global South summit hosted by India.

For us, exchanging info belongs of our truth now.

We are making efforts to meet transparency requirements that even developed nations are not doing.

We are prepared to exchange information and, as I communicated to minister Jaishankar, we are also willing to notify the Indian government about our efforts to ensure transparency, said Tewaney.The minister said that while Panama is currently cooperating with other nations at the technical level , its essential also for her to brief her equivalents at the political level about such efforts by her nation, which stay on worldwide cash laundering watchdog FATFs Increased Monitoring list.The FATF wants Panama to, to name a few things, develop reliable systems to keep track of the activities of offshore entities and demonstrate capability to examine and prosecute cash laundering involving foreign tax criminal activities.

It has actually likewise threatened to call upon member-states to apply enhanced due diligence to business relations and transactions with Panama if the main American country doesnt implement its action strategy by February 2023.

Tewaney, nevertheless, expressed hope the worldwide community will understand that Panama in the FATF list is not hassle-free for anybody.

The way in which Panama was targeted after the documents leak, she said, was also exceptionally unreasonable.

Today, I can proudly state there are no confidential societies in Panama.

Its doing more for openness than some of the countries pointing fingers at Panama.

Panamas legal and financial system even previously was not against global law.

It was duplicated by other countries, including some in the developed world.

We comprehend times have actually changed, said Tewaney.

Even in the Panama Papers, we had the least number of secret societies.

However insufficient due diligence was done and it created an image issue for us, she added.After the 2016 Leak, India had actually formed a multi-agency group consisting of officers from CBDT, Enforcement Directorate, FIU and Reserve Bank of India to penetrate the accounts connected to Indian nationals.

The federal government notified Parliament in December 2021 that - as on October 1, 2021 - overall concealed credits amounting to Rs 20,353 crore have actually been found with regard to 930 India-linked entities in the Panama and Paradise paper leaks.

In its first action to the Panama Papers in 2016, the finance ministry had expressed concern some countries worldwide were being utilized as tax havens and due to the fact that of which all other nations of the world suffered loss of tax.

The federal government will take all required actions as needed to get maximum info from all sources, consisting of from foreign federal governments, for the investigation procedure, it had actually said in a statement.





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