The Swiss branch of the British banking giant HSBC said to have made with “tax evaders and other criminals” and manages billions of black money transactions, writes the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. “Corrupt politicians, arms dealers and other criminals” had for years used accounts of HSBC, “to wash money to conceal possessions and to evade taxes,” it says in NDR and WDR belonging to the same research team.
New from the data leak “Swissleaks”
Similar reports exist from the British “Guardian” and the French journal “Le Monde”. 100,000 documents should have been evaluated. As main ingredients 35,000 internal records of customer meetings are called. The data of the Swiss HSBC Private Bank, the French police seized from a former employee of the banking house of 2009. Investigators say the biggest data breach in the banking industry.
According to these citations for the affected individuals include, among other things, a cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and relatives of former Egyptian head of state Hosni Mubarak and former Chinese Premier Li Peng. Thus making appearances connections to terrorism financiers. There is also talk of more than 2000 customers in Germany with a total balance of around three billion euros.
Financial investigators from twelve states are loud SZ, NRD and WDR thanks to the confidential documents already more than a billion euros have driven taxes and penalties.
The HSBC, as measured by total assets, the second largest bank in the world, after all, admits that there was error in the supervision given. She explains in a four-page opinion, the Swiss subsidiary was not fully integrated following the acquisition in 1999. You have therefore allows much lower standards. The HSBC Private Bank – and particularly the branch in Switzerland – has been radically transformed in recent years. The subsidiary had retained “too many high-risk accounts.”
“Not in full”
Because Swiss private banks had previously worked differently, it is possible that customers “failed to comply with their tax obligations in full,” were it said. The bank finally pointed out that she had become separated from all tax problematic customers …
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