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Monaco is a rogue state, says France
By John Lichfield in Paris
22 June 2000
Monaco is a rogue state that connives in laundering drug and mafia money, under
French protection, a French parliamentary investigation concluded yesterday.
Although the accusation is not new, the severity of the language and the
official nature of the inquiry will be deeply embarrassing to the authorities
in Monaco and France.
The report accuses the tiny principality, surrounded by France and the
Mediterranean, of having no proper system of banking ethics, of allowing its
celebrated casino to run out of control and refusing all serious co-operation
with international efforts to control suspect flows of capital. Monaco is
"conducive to" and "complicit in" money laundering, the report said.
The parliamentary committee suggests France, which provides almost all senior
officials in Monaco, including the chief minister, is partly responsible for
this situation.
The committee calls on the French government to scrap all its fiscal and
judicial arrangements with the Mediterranean statelet, negotiated in 1963.
Monaco, which measures one mile long and a quarter of a mile wide, has 6,000
registered companies. Many are "managed by British citizens ... and set-up in
territories under British law, such as the Bahamas or the Cayman Islands", the
report says. Large sums pass in and out, and judicial authorities in Monaco
have no right to seek information.
The Monaco authorities refused to comment yesterday until they had studied the
report in detail. But the conclusions were accepted unanimously by left-of-
centre members of parliament. The neo-Gaullist RPR, the party founded by
President Jacques Chirac, rejected them, saying the report would "poison
diplomatic relations" between Monaco and France.
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