Brussels, 01/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 1 August, a few months ahead of Latvia joining the euro (1 January 2014), the country's prime minister, Valdis Dombrovskis denied that Latvia has become, like Cyprus, a tax haven and place where dirty money, much from Russian criminal organisations, is deposited.
Dombrovskis was responding to warnings in recent months by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Commission of the dangers of tax fraud and money-laundering in Latvian banks...