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well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, they dont really pay attention t...

well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, they dont really pay attention t...

and a political culture tainted by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles president wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when t...

straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. in the glossy tourist brochures, the seychelles, an archipelago of islands far off the coast of east africa, is portrayed as a little piece of paradise. but dig deeper and you find a very different reality — an island nation threatened by climate change, a population with the worst heroin addiction rate in the world and a political culture tainted by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles�* president,...

by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, its a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. thats the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, th...

But if you can serve the country, and the only thing that i ask of him is just this. ok, so if you are serious about this corruption clean—up, are you serious about ending the seychelles status as one of the leading offshore tax havens in the world? you were cited in those paradise papers as one of the biggest tax havens for tax avoidance. it seems that continues. seychelles is working very closely with the 0ecd and with all the other organisations. and so far, i can again tell you, when i cam...

There is one company, offshore—protection.com, which sells a seychelles option for offshoring money. it says this on its website — it says, "if you are looking for a tax haven, with a solid secrecy policy, seychelles may be the perfect choice." that�*s the reality. this is very good propaganda for that company. but the reality is due diligence is done on anybody who wants to invest in seychelles through the offshore, and there are a lot of people who are turned away, and seychelles is on t...

The other organisations. and so far, i can again tell you, when i came into office in october 2020, seychelles was on the blacklist. but what did we do? straight away, we started working on that, and today seychelles is on the grey list. well, it depends. some countries have you on a list, others do not. but here�*s how you�*re being sold. there is one company, offshore—protection.com, which sells a seychelles option for offshoring money. it says this on its website — it says, "if you ar...