Confidential documents, such as the financial institution HSBC in Geneva with tax evaders and other criminals made millionaire business. Celebrities from all over the world had there accounts. In total, more than 100,000 persons Large data leak at a Swiss subsidiary of the bank HSBC
- affected created
- billions as black money
criminals, members of royal families from the Middle East and government members of several countries have invested billions of dollars at a Swiss subsidiary of the banking giant HSBC – much of it apparently as Black money. This is apparent from thousands of confidential documents that could see the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, NDR and WDR.
In the accounts of customers listed in the Geneva branch of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) superimposed 2007, more than 75 billion euros. The documents are available for some time and financial authorities in at least twelve countries before, among them Germany. Overall, investigators have already driven world, more than one billion euros in taxes and penalties. It is the largest data breach in the banking industry, which was evaluated by investigators and journalists. This affects the Swiss subsidiary HSBC Private Bank.
“We are responsible for the control failure in the past”
More than 100,000 people from more than 200 countries and territories are to be found in the data. HSBC is the second largest bank in the world in terms of total assets. The documents show in detail how bank advisor helped clients to hide their assets. In the documents, there are relatives and members of the government of autocrats as rulers of Syria Bashar al-Assad, Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak and former Chinese Premier Li Peng. In addition, links to suspected blood diamonds dealers weapons slides and terrorist financiers of these margins HSBC dive admits the misconduct of the Swiss subsidiary.
“We are responsible for the control failure in the past,” tells the Institute. The Swiss HSBC have done “too many high-risk accounts”. The Bank points out that they are now all tax problematic customers separately habe.Französische investigators had seized from a former employee of HSBC, Hervé Falciani, the documents of 2009. Of approximately 3000 evaluated the French accounts only six tax offices were reported. Foreign tax investigators have received from France documentation to determine in their countries – Germany in 2010.
Can tax money retold be?
What amount evaded taxes by German authorities could be retrieved, remains unclear. The HSBC documents of the French investigators arrived in the possession of the Paris newspaper “Le Monde ” . She handed the data to the International Consortium for Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington, she was providing 45 media worldwide, including the “Guardian ” , the “BBC” and the US show “60 Minutes “. More than 140 journalists evaluated the documents in a months-long investigation aus.Gegen Falciani, the Swiss prosecutor charged recently prosecution. It complains that the computer, stealing data HSBC. These have Falciani then offered foreign banks and authorities, the Swiss investigators. Falciani currently living under police protection at an undisclosed location in France.
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