Call of Geneva

1996: The call of Geneva

In 1996, Denis Robert joins together seven large Magistrat S anti Corruption to launch the Call of Geneva on October 1st for a European legal Espace. This call fact the object of a book of Denis Robert “justice or chaos”, appeared in 1996 at Stock.

2001: " boxes noires" financial Universalization

• the May 9th 2001, the judges Eva Joly, Renaud Van Ruymbeke, Jean de Maillard, as well as the prosecutors Bernard Bertossa and Benoît Dejemeppe sign a platform in Le Monde entitled " “Block boxes” of the financial Universalization ". Benoit Dejemeppe, then prosecutor of the King to the Parquet floor of Brussels, prohibited with the Examining magistrate Jean-Claude Leys, had a presentiment of by the authors of the initiative, to sign this call and it thus signed it itself. Jean-Claude Leys is the judge who informed the scandal of KredietBank-Luxembourg which made tremble the gratin of Belgian finance and some dominant French groups of CAC-40.

• This one affirms that " it is time to take the mesure" " impact" " deliver of the journalist Denis Robert and the Luxembourg former executive Ernest Backes Révélation$ ".

• They affirm that " the essence of the impact of Révélation$ appears in the deafening silence of the whole of the actors of the system blamed in the operation of Clearstream and, to a lesser extent, of its counterpart Euroclear as well as system of financial routing Swift ".

• According to the Magistrate S, " the first révélation" relate to the accounts not published: " the existence of accounts not published occult customers does not appear to have any direction within a Clearing house. In the same way, the flowering of accounts not published opened by the subsidiary companies of large banks installed in the Tax shelters does not cease a étonner." They add that one finds same the " principle of dissimulation" at Swift. The " second révélation" brought by the work of Denis Robert would be that " the chaos of the Financial flow S is only apparent".

• Indeed, if " the banking Paradis and tax hide with wonder the points of passage and arrival of the capital sales" , these Financial flow S passes " in the same financial “pipes” as the others, i.e. companies of Clearing and routing financier". Consequently, " the physical invisibility of these transfers is misleading because, actually, the companies of Clearing and routing exert a quasi-monopoly on the international transport of the capitaux." Lastly, " the third révélation" , " capitale" according to the magistrates anti Corruption, relates to the recording of the transfer operations on " microfiches or Optical disks " , recording necessary in order to serve " of Proof of the transfers and changes of propriété" in the event of litigation enters the users. These microfiches are thus of an obvious interest for the pole of the magistrates of fight against the financial delinquency.

• This is why, always according to the judges, " Denis Robert and Ernest Backes shows us quite simply where the “block boxes” of the financial Mondialisation are " , and " must allow the European citizens to include/understand the role of the Clearing houses and by-there very lighting the financial Mondialisation one nouveau." day;

• They propose like " solution among autres" of " to place these institutions" (Clearstream, Euroclear and others Clearing houses and Routing) " under the control of an international organization who could play the part of the Tiers of confidence. "

2006: Tax shelters, which assessment ten years after the call of Geneva?

The October 2nd 2006, Denis Robert publishes on Agoravox a ten years assessment of the Call of Geneva. Its report is bitter:

We must today, ten years after Geneva, to question us without seeking to skew: is there a European justice? Financial Criminal are they less in safety? Do the judges communicate better between them? Is the black money share in reduction? Does one manufacture less poverty in our Pays developed S? All these questions are closely dependant. With each one of them, the simple perception of constrained reality to answer, without any hesitation, by the negative one.

Apart from some tiny improvements in the transmission of the international letters rogatories which hold especially with the personal relationship between magistrates, no good report is possible.

the Letters of request international (CRY) remain, because of an absence of harmonization of the legislations and political blockings, very difficult to carry out… When a judge sends a CRY to a country which is not member of the European Union, the report is even more overpowering. In the absence of cooperation agreement between the countries, any procedure is dedicated to the failure. ''