Comment: Ireland is being used to launder the world’s dirty money and must take action The government needs a strong strategy and the Gardaí need more resources to stop the country becoming a haven for corruption 9th March, 2021
Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan’s former authoritarian president Islam Karimov: up to $300 million in corrupt payments to her were laundered through the IFSC in Dublin. Photo: Getty
Gulnara Karimova once described herself as “one of the prominent young faces in Uzbekistan”. She was a fashion designer, film-maker, writer and pop singer, regularly rubbing shoulders with the glitterati in New York and Monte Carlo where she promoted her jewellery and fashion brand.
The Irish investment limited partnership (the "ILP"), now re-shaped as a flexible fund investment vehicle following amendments made to the existing Investment Limited Partnership Act, 1994 (the "ILP Act").
Why is this topic suddenly of interest?
Irish Investment Limited Partnerships (“ILPs”) have been around since the introduction of the Investment Limited Partnership Act in 1994 (the “1994 Act”). Due to certain requirements imposed under the 1994 Act, they have seldom been used – there were only six in existence as of January 2021 based upon statistics published by the Central Bank of Ireland (“CBI”).
However, the 1994 Act has now been revitalised by virtue of the Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Act 2020 (the “2020 Act”) to make it fit for modern-day investment purposes and comparable to other fund domiciles. Marking the signing of the Statutory Instrument, the Irish Minister of State at the Department of Finance, said: “The changes will further support Ireland’s offering as a top-tier global location of choice for financial services investments.”
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Regulation
Preparation for entry into force of periodic reporting
obligations and Level 2 Measures under the SFDR
The Cross Border Distribution Regulation sets down specific
conditions that all marketing communications addressed to investors
must comply with. These include an obligation to ensure that all
information contained in marketing communications is fair, clear
and not misleading and does not contradict or diminish the
significance of information contained in the fund prospectus. They
must also provide investors with a hyperlink to a summary of
investor rights. Marketing communications
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