Berlin – German investigators have long fraudsters on the trail who have taken in Switzerland the help of the bank HSBC in claim – so far they have investigated 1,136 cases. Now this list is likely to be much longer: According to research of international journalists concentration ICIJ can be found in the documents a total of 2,106 names related to Germany as consistently report also “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, NDR and WDR.
A third of the German account holders have anonymous numbered accounts used more than 200 customers therefore had front companies, according to the report. Total German customers had invested about 3.3 billion euros. The average assets was thus more than 1.5 million euros.The analyzed documents submitted by the former HSBC employees Hervé Falciani . He had stolen it and handed over to the French tax authorities in 2009. According to the Federal Ministry of Finance, the data were transmitted 2010 to the Federal Central Tax Office and forwarded “immediately” to the competent tax authorities. Why the German investigators apparently an incomplete list has been transmitted, remains unclear.
Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) called for investigations against the bank for aiding and abetting tax evasion. He called to investigate the business practices and punish if necessary. “We have it all legal options,” Gabriel told the radio station NDR Info. North Rhine-Westphalia Finance Minister Norbert Walter Borjans (SPD) said on Tuesday even in favor of banks to withdraw the license if they do not give up the business model of organized fraud.
The international research network ICIJ had reported that HSBC had led black money accounts in Switzerland and profits from transactions with arms dealers and smugglers. Accordingly incorporated in 2006 and 2007, some $ 180 billion (159 billion euros) on the accounts of the bank to evade taxes, launder money or to finance terrorism. In the data analyzed according to the ICIJ more than 100,000 customers in over 200 countries listed.
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