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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A bunch of U.S. pension plans has misplaced a bid to dam Denmark’s tax company from pursuing tens of millions of {dollars} from them in a “cum-ex” tax fraud case after a choose in a New York district courtroom dominated the trial may proceed.
Danish tax company in 2018 filed civil lawsuits in federal district courts throughout america, accusing greater than 100 retirement and pension plans of inflating the dimensions of their Danish inventory holdings as a way to receive larger tax refunds.
So-called “cum-ex” schemes, which flourished following the 2008 monetary disaster, concerned buying and selling shares quickly round a syndicate of banks, traders and hedge funds to use the tax methods of nations reminiscent of Denmark, Germany and Belgium.
In a bellwether trial within the New York courtroom to assist anticipate the outcomes of future related instances, the choose rejected arguments introduced by seven defendants, which means the Danish tax authority can proceed with its case.
ED&F Man Capital Markets, a brokerage fined by Britain’s markets regulator in June over the cum-ex tax scandal, offered companies to 2 U.S.-based pension plans in relation to Danish securities and can also be a third-party defendant, the judgment stated.
The second bellwether defendant group is the Solo group, which incorporates 5 U.S.-based pension plans, a lawyer, two trusts and their trustees.
The Danish tax company claims that British hedge fund dealer Sanjay Shah masterminded a fraudulent scheme that concerned submitting wrongful functions for dividend tax refunds on behalf of traders and corporations around the globe between 2012 and 2015.
Earlier this month, the UK Supreme Court docket denied an try by Shah, who was arrested in Dubai final 12 months, to dam Denmark from pursuing him and others in a 12.7 billion Danish crowns ($1.86 billion) London civil case.
Denmark’s supreme courtroom on Monday dominated that Bech-Bruun, one of many nation’s greatest legislation companies, should pay 400 million crowns for its involvement with a German financial institution that allegedly helped shoppers pull out of Denmark by way of cum-ex schemes.
($1 = 6.8320 Danish crowns)
