An invitation to launder money

By Georg Mascolo

HAMBURG, Germany, November 8, 1999 — Whoever wishes to hide funds from the grips of tax authorities will find willing assistants in the Prin

Excerpts from this story referencing "Luxembourg":

"… against tax-sheltering Liechtenstein. “We can not even bring England and Luxembourg in line within the EU,” said one highly placed official in the German Fo …"

Authorities question criteria for access to flight simulators

By Josey Ballenger

WASHINGTON, September 25, 2001 — Congress and the executive branch are reviewing the largely unregulated access to the nations 527 licensed

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"… schools and airlines overseas with FAA-approved devices are in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Helsinki, London, Luxembourg, Paris, Singapore and Palma de Mallo …"

Obama names another bundler to be ambassador to Luxembourg

By Fred Schulte

Burned once, Obama again turns to a big donor to be next Luxembourg ambassador

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"… ths after a major Obama fundraiser abruptly quit her post as ambassador to Luxembourg in the wake of a blistering critique of her performance, the White House h …"

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Koch fined for making 12 illegal campaign contributions that it self-reported

By Peter H. Stone

Koch subsidiary fined for illegal contributions that it reported to FEC

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"… our-year period.Invista S.a.r.l., a Koch subsidiary which is registered in Luxembourg but headquartered in Wichita, Kan., came to the FEC voluntarily with infor …"

European ambitions hit a wall of carbon

By Brigitte Alfter

Business and industry pare back EU climate goals

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"… g EU nations, whose membership spans countries from Estonia and Romania to Luxembourg and the United Kingdom.A Plan with LoopholesOr so it seemed. As debate gre …"

The influence peddlers

By Yossi Melman and Julio Godoy

Arcadi Gaydamak epitomized the business of war in the post-Cold War era – an entrepreneur with global ties to resource exploitation

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"… Gaydamak created a maze of enterprises in Russia, the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg, England, Switzerland, and Israel. In France, he formed the International …"

"… Ltd and Edsaco Holdings (UK) Ltd; in Jersey, Edsaco Participation Ltd; in Luxembourg, Extrainvest, Palmeto, Luxstreet, and Pivoine; in the Netherlands, Reminve …"

"… money, according to Swiss investigators, traveled through bank accounts in Luxembourg, kept by firms based in Panama, Israel, and Cyprus.Dos Santos has proteste …"

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FACT CHECK: Obama claims foreign countries pay teachers as well as doctors

By FactCheck.Org

President Obama makes misinformed statement claiming countries with higher test scores, pay their teachers "on par with doctors"

Excerpts from this story referencing "Luxembourg":

"… her countries — Iceland, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Hungary, Slovenia and Luxembourg — all performed better than U.S. students in one or more subject area. T …"

"… ber countries and six partner countries in OECD's teacher salary database, Luxembourg paid teachers the highest: $89,864 for upper secondary school teachers aft …"

"… as still below the $108,793 paid to general practitioners in 2006 in  Luxembourg, which has a popular universal health care system.)Students in M …"

Wealthy corporations with a trillion dollars stashed offshore lobby for a 'holiday' from U.S. taxes

By John Aloysius Farrell and Aaron Mehta

Wealthy corporations are lobbying for a tax holiday for a trillion dollars stashed offshore

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"… nder the 2004 law included the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bermuda, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands. In many cases, the money was moved through shell c …"

Lobbyists bankrolling politics

By Alex Knott

Bush gets nearly four times as much as Kerry

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"… Former Pioneer and lobbyist Peter Terpeluk was appointed as ambassador to Luxembourg in 2002.But the measure of success for a lobbyist is whether he or she is …"

Colombia’s black-market coltan tied to drug traffickers, paramilitaries

By Ignacio Gómez G.

Illicit mining in hot spot of Colombia’s Amazon tied to paramilitaries, drug traffickers

Excerpts from this story referencing "Luxembourg":

"… tax forms to facilitate the export of tungsten to warehouses in Strassen, Luxembourg, belonging to Traxys Europe SA.A middleman’s report said the tungsten th …"