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Monday 09 February 2015
Whether or blood diamonds 9/11 – the Swiss arm of HSBC Bank supported criminals and terrorist financiers obviously going to hide their assets. The documents also list thousands of German customers and their transactions. “A find of the century,” says a former tax inspector.
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The International Research Association ICIJ has again published data on tax evasion and this time took the Swiss branch of the British bank HSBC targeted. According to the results of the Swiss HSBC branch many international personalities and politicians helped to hide several million euros before tax authorities. About the “Swissleaks” reported several German and international media, including the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the ARD.
As the research network announced that put international customers at the bank billions in, it obviously much as black money. The evaluated data according to accounts camped there in 2007 more than 75 billion euros. In the data according to the ICIJ more than 100,000 customers in over 200 countries listed.
HSBC had “benefited business with arms dealers”, among other things, the mortar bombs were sent to child soldiers in Africa, told the network. Other criminal partners were “smugglers of blood diamonds” and terrorist financiers who were involved in the attacks of 11 September 2001.
From Germany ARD According to immerse 2106 customers with total assets of around three billion Euro on. The German bank account holders therefore include industrialist families, business people and noble families as well as professional athletes, and politicians. For many it was strong circumstantial evidence that the accounts have not been known to the tax authorities.
shell companies and bank accounts
A top managers have picked up a large cash sum in Geneva about just before Christmas 2005 causes at the bank, that his mail is not sent to Germany. Also, a nobleman who board at the time a charitable foundation, have the post do not want to get home to her millions of credit. An equestrian sportswoman managed reported to a credit of nearly ten million US dollars over a shell company in the Bahamas.
229 offshore shell companies that are controlled from Germany, are in the data records it says in the ARD , 740 to so-called numbered accounts managed without a name. There are many indications for tax evasion are found consequently in the German customers again. Documents in this quality are “a” find of the century, as the ARD quotes a former German tax investigators.
More aboutThe documents submitted by the former HSBC employee Hervé Falciani. He had stolen it and handed over to the French tax authorities in 2009. Other countries, including Germany, received documents to determine also. The data set includes the years 1988 to 2007 comes from the Geneva branch of HSBC. First, the French newspaper “Le Monde” received the information and put it in turn to the research network is available.
HSBC sees “control failure”
Involved in the shady business is, according to the revelations, a number of incumbent and former politicians from Britain, Russia, India and African countries as well as by the crown of Arab States. Affected individuals reportedly include a cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and relatives of former Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak and former Chinese Premier Li Peng.
The HSBC admitted according to the network, that they are “responsible” is the “control failure in the past”. The Swiss HSBC have done “too many high-risk accounts”. The Bank therefore also refers to the fact that it had become separated from all tax problematic customers. The retail business was reorganized, the Bank had separated from approximately 70 percent of its customers since 2007.
Source: n-tv.de
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