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Bribery and corruption 'fact of life' in Poland? [152]
What is the corruption ridden country , not Poland of course . Making Poland some kind of a scapegoat ( only to distract the public interest from their scandals and their own problems is also a libel .
It is a libel to deceive the general public and pack their heads with false data, using the term - projection of a fraud or feeling of beeing pressed to commit a fraud . Poland can sue E&Y for trying to libel Poland and that could be a "major trial" to accuse other country of corruption by giving only as an evidence a survey that measures the level of someone`s feeling . Building such a projection among prospective investors creates misleading environment destroying the future of Poland by portraying our country as a corrupted state which is a total false acusation . There are frauds or corruption acts commited by Poles , but it is just a small fraction of all business actions done by Polish citizens.
Take a look at these facts it is not about a bottle of cognac or a watch handed over as a present for a doctor :
The E&Y deal is just the latest in a long line of settlements relating to the promotion of over the edge-tax-shelters during the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2005, KPMG agreed to pay what was then a record $456 million fine in a deferred prosecution deal covering its role in promoting shelters. Deutsche Bank agreed to pay a record $554 million in a deferred prosecution deal in 2010. And last June, accounting firm BDO USA paid $50 million, and admitted generating $6.5 billion in phony losses in its own deferred prosecution agreement. In a different line of tax abuse cases, in February 2009, Swiss Bank UBS entered into a deferred prosecution deal and paid $780 million in fines, for its role in helping Americans hide assets offshore. Deferred prosecution, also known as pretrial diversion, has been the feds' preferred method of dealing with wrongdoing by prominent corporations since the Department of Justice came under fire for causing the 2002 collapse of accounting firm Arthur Andersen, which was convicted of obstruction of justice in the Enron scandal. This past January, Switzerland's oldest bank, Wegelin & Co., went out of business after it was forced to plead guilty to helping to hide $1.2 billion for American tax cheats.
While the E&Y settlement might seem like it was late in coming, both civil and criminal litigation related to the tax shelter craze continues. Just this week, for example, a Louisiana federal judge shot down a shelter Dow Chemical used to create $1 billion in phony deductions between 1993 and 2003. And today, a Manhattan federal judge sentenced Donna Guerin, 52, to eight years for her role in promoting tax shelters while an attorney with the now defunct Jenkens & Gilchrist law firm. Guerin and three co-defendants were convicted of tax fraud in 2011, but later Guerin and two of her co-defendants were granted a mistrial as a result of misconduct by a juror-ironically, a law school graduate who lied about her background. Guerin later decided to plead guilty, while the other two, including former Jenkens & Gilchrist partner Paul Daugerdas, are scheduled to be retried in September.