have in common comedian Gad Elmaleh, the hairdressers boss Jacques Dessange, the great actress Jeanne Moreau, the psychoanalyst Gerard Miller, former president of CRIF Gérard Prasquier, chef Paul Bocuse, businessman Bernard Tapie, the singer Philippe Lavil, former footballer Christophe Dugarry, the lawyer Michel Tubiana, director Cédric Klapisch, visual artist Christian Boltanski, the former prefect Jean-Charles Marchiani, former Representative of France to the UN Luc de Nanteuil, or Fabien Ouaki, son of the founder of Tati? All, according to the revelations of the Le Monde February 9, are or were holders of hidden accounts in Switzerland, HSBC Bank.
Vol incredible
Their hoard discovered by the tax authorities and spread their name in the press … They have the misfortune to theft, in 2008, the list of all accounts receivable by HSBC computer specialist, Hervé Falciani. This violated the secrecy helvète and fled Geneva with a computer full of data, the most of tax authorities around the world.
Discrete regularization
The list contains French 3,000 names … including those celebrities who are all, according to the newspaper, eager to get their checkbook to secretly regularize their situation. The rest consists of people much less known, professionals, traders, small and medium employers … most of whom also had to go to Canossa. The tax authorities recovered over the adjustments, more than 300 million euros, 5.7 billion of assets hidden by the “3000″ of HSBC. It’s not over: the most recalcitrant subject to a criminal complaint Exactly like Arlette Ricci, the granddaughter of the famous dressmaker Nina Ricci, the court on 16 February-with the risk, if found guilty, fined for … more of a recovery with increased penalties.
damning dossier
But the record fine, it is the bank itself that could suffer it. HSBC Private Bank Switzerland (subsidiary of the British HSBC Holdings) was indicted Nov. 18 by the judges Daïeff William and Charlotte Bilger to “bank canvassing and illicit financial” and “aggravated money laundering tax evasion ” with a deposit of 50 million euros. The criminal record after five years of investigation seems overwhelming: more than 80 witnesses, clients and managers were interviewed and describe an industrial system of tax fraud organization
Illegal Steps
A good twenty Swiss account managers went incognito the border illegally to visit their French customers or approach new. From 2005, when a European tax was created on any account held abroad, the management of HSBC sent its customers a letter offering explicit to get around: they were offered the creation of shell companies in Panama and the British Virgin Islands, with 2,000 to 7,000 euros.
Plead Guilty
Finally, several reports indicate that even the bankers were the feet and hands to deter requests for regularization! We understand why David Garrido, the Director of Legal Affairs of the bank, has hinted that he would be ready to release the new procedure of pleading guilty, avoiding the trial acknowledging advance his wrongs, and negotiate the fine with the floor. We’re talking about hundreds of millions of euros.
Gaëlle Macke ChallengeSoir
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