Marriott Cayman Island
2002
Treasury Secretary O'Neill joined British Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer and British Virgin Islands Governor Frank Savage in signing a tax information exchange agreement with regard to the British Virgin Islands. O’Neill stated that the agreement was targeted at stopping funds associated with terrorism, money laundering, and tax evasion that often move almost effortlessly across national boundaries. ... January 25, 2002: Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Bahamian Finance Minister William Allen signed an agreement committing the United States and the Bahamas to sharing tax information in an effort to cut off funding to terrorist organizations. The United States had recently concluded similar tax-information exchange agreements with the Cayman Islands and Antigua and Barbuda. ... [Read More]
Senate Executive Report 108-8
GPO Congressional Reports: Main Page [DOCID: f:er008.108]From the Executive Reports Online via GPO Access[wais.access.gpo.gov]108th Congress Exec. Rpt. SENATE 1st Session 108-8====================================================================== CONVENTION FOR INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE BY AIR (TREATY DOC. 106-45) AND PROTOCOL TO AMEND THE CONVENTION FOR UNIFICATION OF CERTAIN RULES RELATING TO INTERNATIONAL CARRIAGE BY AIR (TREATY DOC. 107-14) _______ July 29, 2003.--Ordered to be printed _______ Mr. Lugar, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, submitted the following R E P O R T [To accompany Treaty Doc. 106-45 and Treaty Doc. 107- ... [Read More]
Country Reports: G-M
Gabon Gabon is not a regional financial center. The Bank of Central African States (BEAC) supervises Gabon’s banking system. BEAC is a regional Central Bank that serves six countries of Central Africa. According to a 2003 letter from the Government of Gabon (GOG) to the UN Counter Terrorism Committee, in matters concerning suspicious financial transactions, banks are bound by the instructions of the Ministry of Economic and Financial Affairs. The actual monitoring of financial transactions is conducted by the Economic Intervention Service that harmonizes the regulation of currency exchanges in the member States of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC). On November 20, 2002, the BEAC Board of Directors approved draft anti-money laundering a ... [Read More]
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