Rome, February 9, 2015 – “Spectacular and unprecedented” with “figures that give the dizziness” is ‘ SwissLeaks’ (as has already been renamed), investigation put forth by the French newspaper Le Monde and other 44 newspapers worldwide, coordinated by the Consortium of Investigative Journalism American ICIJ. The survey, made between Paris, Washington, Brussels and Geneva, has moved on the trail of a vast system of tax evasion that would be accepted and encouraged by the British bank HSBC, according to the World Bank Group, through its Swiss subsidiary HSBC Private Bank. According to the newspaper across the Alps would be involved 100 thousand customers vip. It really is not a crime to hold money and holding in Switzerland, provided it is made known to the national tax authorities. So it is said that those who have been included in the file ‘Swissleaks’ are really tacciabili of tax evasion.
The INQUIRY – Le Monde , which investigates the HSBC scandal since its origins, says he had come into possession of bank data on a global scale for the two years 2005-2007, that demonstrate a gigantic fraud on an international scale. Among the celebrities involved, the French newspaper anticipates the names of French Gad Elmaleh, mate Charlotte, daughter of Caroline of Monaco, the king of Morocco, Mohamed VI, the American actor John Malkovich . Waver The senior bank over the world , according to the newspaper, that part of a consortium shares the investigation with sixty international media.
ITALIAN have evaded 740 MILLION – And while Le Monde tells the investigation, The Republic – citing an upcoming article in L’Espresso – remember the list Falciani in which appeared 7 thousand names italian including that of fashion designer Valentino Garavani, Flavio Briatore and Valentino Rossi who, for some time, say no longer had a score to settle with the IRS. Even today the legal Rossi , Achille Marchionni, reiterated that the sample does not have “nothing to fear” because that “account has not existed since 2008″. L to Financial Police led term 3,276 inspections with the finding of positive elements of income not declared for more than 740 million euro and 4.5 mln VAT. The other positions have not been in-depth view of the fact that the parties indicated were not making changes.
THE LIST FALCIANI – According to data of Le Monde , to EUR 180.6 billion would be passed, in Geneva, on the accounts of HSBC over 100,000 customers and 20,000 offshore companies, between November 9, 2006 and March 31, 2007. A period corresponding to that of the “list Falciani”, the archive dell’informatico French who provided the data to the tax authorities of thousands of tax evaders stolen from his employer. In addition 5.7 billion would have been disguised by HSBC in tax havens only on behalf of French customers. The lists are among other arms dealers and drug users, funders terrorist organizations, politicians, stars of show business, sports stars or famous industrial. All eager to conceal their belongings to the IRS. In this endeavor, they would be “encouraged” by the Executive Committee of HSBC to better hide their money away in offshore structures, usually based in Panama or in t he British Virgin Islands. However, according to sources of the Financial Police, between 3 .276 interventions inspection concluded in respect of persons included in the “list Falciani ‘, 1264′ tested »opposed adherence to the tax shield in the amount of repatriated capital amounted to 1,669,075,253 euro .
H SBC ADMITS defaillance – Meanwhile, today, the British bank HSBC has admitted the mistakes of its Swiss branch in response to revelations about the so-called ‘SwissLeaks’. “We accept and take responsibility for past failures with respect to the rules and procedures of control,” said the British bank in a statement. HSBC says that the Swiss subsidiary was not totally incorporated to the group after the purchase in 1999 and therefore the levels of compliance with the rules were “significantly lower” than the norm.
BELGIUM : READY MANDATES OF ARREST – L Belgian judiciary , for its part, is ready to issue arrest warrants against current and former executives of the bank HSBC if the Swiss colleagues in Brussels will not provide the information requested. The national education of the Prosecutor of Brussels “two months ago sent a letter of request to the Swiss authorities,” but so far these “were deaf,” said the spokesman for the attorney speaking with radiotv Swiss Rsi . “N e have no idea why not work together because the application was made under the Convention against money laundering that exist between the two countries,” the spokeswoman said Rym Kechiche. For this, he recalled, “the judge education has already announced that if it is not followed up on its application for aid plan to issue against the leaders of the time and to the present an arrest warrant.” ; Last November the Belgian judiciary had opened an investigation against HSBC for organized tax fraud, money laundering, criminal association and illegal practice of financial intermediation. Would be over a thousand wealthy Belgian taxpayers, for several billion dollars, to have evaded taxes via the Swiss bank between 2003 and 2015. The judiciary Brussels is also in permanent contact with the bank in an attempt to obtain any appropriate digits .
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