MH17 is changing Europe’s game on Russia LISBON, Portugal — Media reports compounded the anguish in the Netherlands on Monday with the information that the Russian company that exports missile systems of the type suspected of downing Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 operates an Amsterdam office in order to profit from Dutch international tax loopholes. “Supplier of the MH17 rocket sits in Amsterdam’s Zuidas,” said a headline in the daily De Volkskrant, referring to the Dutch capital’s business district. The paper cited a report from an investigative website that says an office in Amsterdam is linked to the Russian conglomerate Rostec, whose complex web of subsidiaries includes the arms exporter that sells BUK anti-aircraft missiles. Russian companies and their oligarch owners are among the most enthusiastic users of Dutch fiscal laws enabling international businesses to recycle profits and avoid national taxes. Tens of billions of Russian dollars flowing through the Netherlands — and other fiscally relaxed European Union countries such as Cyprus, Luxembourg and Ireland — go some way toward explaining why the EU is finding it so difficult to impose hard-hitting sanctions against Moscow. EU officials will try again on Tuesday. This time, several leaders are insisting that the outrage over MH17 means they’ll finally have to [...] newsinca/mh17-is-changing-europes-game-on-russia/
Posted on: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:02:12 +0000
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