Spanish Court to Question Former HSBC Executives in Tax Probe Triggered by Whistleblower
Posted 05/5/17
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Spain's High Court is to question seven former executives from HSBC's Swiss private bank as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering and tax fraud triggered by tax information leaks from former employee turned whistleblower Herve Falciani.
The court said in a ruling that it had decided to widen the investigation to study the flow of funds from HSBC's Swiss...
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UBS AG, the Swiss bank, will 
The Internal Revenue Service recently released its 
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The IRS often, and often unfairly, gets a bad rap, frequently for doing exactly what it exists to do: collect taxes and catch those who try to cheat their way out of paying their fair share. A recent 
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This Tax Enforcement Spotlight features Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. On Thursday, the Switzerland based financial institution agreed to pay a total of $547 million as part of a deferred prosecution agreement to settle criminal charges that the bank conspired to help many of its U.S. taxpayer-clients hide from the IRS billions of dollars in offshore accounts and evade U.S. taxes...