On 8 December, ICIJ reported that the Europol director has said in an interview that the Pandora Papers showed that criminals were using offshore jurisdictions where there were “few rules and little supervision”. A Europol report warns the scale of money laundering activities affecting the EU has been underestimated, and calls for a coordinated approach to combat the illicit activities exposed by the investigation.
Following the leak of documents, Europol undertook its own analysis to understand the significance of the Pandora Papers for its own work and for the wider law enforcement sector. This has been collated into a report that contextualises the Pandora Papers amongst similar major leaks of financial data, and details policy recommendations that arose from analysis.
The report from Europol is available at –
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