Nick Shaxson ■ Quote of the day – Luxembourg and the drugs trade

Quote of the day – Luxembourg and the drugs trade

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6 November 2014

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From a Guardian story about the ICIJ Luxembourg story that’s broken today:

“Asked recently if such a crackdown risked damaging the economy of Luxembourg, one senior figure closely involved in the G20 reform programme said: “I don’t care. It is like saying: ‘If you fight drugs there will be no jobs in certain parts of Mexico.’”

Well put.

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Nick Shaxson

Nicholas Shaxson is a journalist and writer on the staff of Tax Justice Network. He is author of the book Poisoned Wells about the oil industry in Africa, published in 2007, and the more recent Treasure Islands: Tax havens and the Men who Stole the World, published by Random House in January 2011. He lives in Berlin.

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