Shock: EU Commissioners Are Not The Repository For All Human Virtues After All.

By NIKOLAJ NIELSEN EU Observer.

BRUSSELS, 22. SEP, 09:23

The EU's former competition commissioner Neelie Kroes was the director of an offshore company based in the Bahamas tax haven, leaked documents have revealed.

The revelation was disclosed on Wednesday (21 September) as part of a cache of 1.3 million files from the Bahamas corporate register obtained by German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and the Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ).

Kroes had failed to declare the company, Mint Holdings Ltd, during the 10 years of her tenure at the EU commission, first as competition chief (2004-10) and then as digital agenda commissioner up until 2014.