Mr President, from 2000 to 2012, over EUR 170 billion were transferred from Portugal into tax havens - and that is just the officially recorded amount. Tax evaders were aided by banks, lawyers and financial experts whom the Portuguese Government also regularly hired to supposedly outsource to them the defence of state interests, all of which usually ended up in corrupt contracts and laws full of loopholes to assist tax criminals.

Last year, with the country already under bail-out and with taxes on the people who pay them drastically raised, the Portuguese Government granted a tax amnesty to tax criminals, allowing them to keep secrecy and pay a ridiculous fine of 7.5% to legalise and keep - mostly in Switzerland - more than EUR 3 or 4 billion, not even demanding repatriation of that capital, all with the Troika's blessing. Lagarde lists and Liechtenstein lists actually serve to protect tax criminals and allow them to be shrouded in even more secrecy by the Portuguese authorities.

(The president cuts off the speaker.)