Après analyse des détails, l’hôtel du gouvernement avance, par rapport à l’ICJ, que “it appears, therefore, that its agenda is to use its unsubstantiated “findings” and incorrect arguments just to harm the repute of Mauritius ».
Et d’ajouter : « In this light, the Government of Mauritius firmly rejects the statement that Mauritius is ‘a small island off Africa’s east coast helped companies leach tax revenue from poor African, Arab and Asian nations’, as stated in one of the articles by ICIJ’s Will Fitzgibbon.”
Le gouvernement relève que “the ICIJ was apprised, at the very outset, of the recent legislative and policy changes brought to our system, but nevertheless focussed on obsolete information”. Les autorités mauriciennes remettent en perspective les pratiques en vigueur et les mesures adoptées en soulignant qu’il existe quelque 3 000 DTTAs signés par 70 Etats de par le monde.
Le communiqué s’appesantit sur la coopération avec l’Afrique et rappelle que « our anti-money laundering and combatting the financing of terrorism systems and procedures have been recently successfully reevaluated and were endorsed by the FATF Global Network ».
Et de poursuivre : « Moreover, Mauritius’ cooperation with mainland Africa extends to beyond the field investment. In fact Mauritius has over the years put in place a number of important building blocks for mutually beneficial political and economic relations with mainland Africa”.