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EU: Former EC commissioner revealed in Bahamas leaks

By  |  September 22, 2016

The European Commission’s former antitrust chief between 2004 and 2010, Neelie Kroes, is in the spotlight after papers leaked from the Bahamas which revealed that Kroes held a directorship in a company during her time in the EC which she never revealed.

The company, Mint Holdings, is still active and was originally set up to “manage the acquisition of international energy assets, principally from Enron,” according to fellow director Amin Badr-El-Din of Jordan.

Kroes lawyer has stated that her appearance in the records was a “clerical oversight which was not corrected until 2009,” and she had ever been compromised by private-sector ties and would “take full responsibility” for the “oversight.”

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