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拉加德名单问世 瑞士不再是贪官的金融避风港(上)

2018-03-20 每日双语经济学人 每日双语经济学人

Greek taxation

希腊税收

 

Doubts over competence

全面质疑

 

Not a single prominent tax evader has yet been convicted.

至今为止,希腊还未对任何有明显偷税嫌疑者进行惩罚。

 

Greece’S elite used to see stashing funds in Swiss bank accounts as an insurance policy. 

希腊的精英分子们过去总是认为将钱存在瑞士银行是项保险政策。


Until the country joined the euro zone, fears of a sudden devaluation or a freeze on capital movements loomed large. 

但是自从该国加入欧元区后,在资本的流动中,银行存款可能突然发生贬值或冻结,精英们对此愈加担心。


Then came a rush to transfer money made in the black economy to financial havens abroad.

他们争相通过黑市把资金转移至海外的金融避风港。

 

After many years of turning a blind eye to this illegal practice, a desperately broke Greek government is at last cracking down. 

在多年对这些违法行为睁一只眼闭一只眼后,濒临破产的希腊政府做出严厉打击此类行为的动作。

The tax declarations of almost 2,000 Greeks with accounts at the Geneva branch of HSBC, a bank, are being scrutinised by officials at SDOE, the financial police. 

希腊独立税务调查组(SDOE),对近2000名在汇丰银行(HSBC)日内瓦分行有业务的希腊纳税人的资产进行了清查。


Their names were on a computer disk sent in 2010 by Christine Lagarde, then French finance minister, to her Greek counterpart, George Papaconstantinou.

而这批名单是在2010年的时候,从时任法国财政部长克里斯蒂娜·拉加德(Christine Lagarde)的电脑磁盘里传给时任希腊财政部长乔治·帕帕康斯坦丁 (George Papaconstantinou)的。

 

The “Lagarde list” went missing in mid-2011 but turned up again recently when Evangelos Venizelos, Mr Papaconstantinou’s successor as finance minister, sent a copy to the office of Antonis Samaras, who is now prime minister. 

这份“拉加德 名单”在2011年年中时,曾经失踪过。但是帕帕康斯坦丁财长的继任者维尼泽洛斯(Evangelos Venizelos)将此名单的复印件送至现任希腊总理萨马拉斯(Antonis Samaras)处。


Hot Doc, a Greek investigative magazine, then got hold of another copy and published all 2,000 names.

此后,希腊调查类杂志《热门档案》(Hot Doc)也获得一份名单,并公布了这近2000个姓名。

 

Several politicians and their wives and many members of prominent business families appear on the list. 

一些政客和他们的妻子以及许多赫赫有名的企业家族成员出现在这份名单上。


Yet most attention has focused on Maria Panteli, an office manager whose account contained 550 million euro ($719m), about one-third of the total in all the accounts. 

然而现在大多数的目光都集中在一个叫做Maria Panteli的办公室经理的身上,她的账户资本约有5.5亿欧元(约为7.19亿美元),约占总账户金额的三分之一。


Ms Panteli was suspected at first of acting as a front for a Greek shipowner. 

Panteli 起初被怀疑是希腊某船主的替罪羊。

(全文共251个词)(红色标注词为考研重点词汇) 

 

考研重点词汇:

prominent  ['prɑmɪnənt] adj. 突出的,显著的;杰出的;卓越的

convict  [kən'vɪkt] vt. 证明…有罪;宣告…有罪

desperately  ['despərətlɪ] adv. 拼命地;绝望地;极度地

scrutinize  ['skrutənaɪz] vi. 细阅;作详细检查 vt. 详细检查;细看

counterpart  ['kaʊntɚpɑrt] n. 副本;配对物;极相似的人或物


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