Jérôme leads the Fraud and Financial Crime (FFC) Government practice across EMEA and AP for SAS, managing the sales, presales and subject matter experts within the government sector. Jerome works with many large Government institutions across EMEA and AP, in creating solution roadmaps and appropriate risk strategies to combat fraud and financial crime in the public sector. Relevant tax related projects include the deployment of a fraud detection system for the Belgian Tax covering multiple domains (e.g.: VAT Carousel fraud, offshore fraud, profit shifting).
Historically, tax havens have been a key tool for tax evaders to store and hide unreported and untaxed money. I would agree with most observers that the Panama papers (11.5 million leaked documents that detail financial information for more than 214,488 offshore entities) are just the tip of the tax
Across the globe, governments are losing billions in revenues to organised VAT fraud. The most recent VAT Gap study published by the European Commission estimates that EU countries lost an estimated €168 billion in VAT revenues in 2013. That's equivalent to 15.2% of the total expected VAT revenue from the
