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Report: HSBC Bank helped clients including close to Mubarak and Assad to hide $ 100 billion
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Atlanta, United States (CNN) - investigative report revealed Hide the British bank "HSBC" bank accounts for different categories of customers from the heads of their popular uprisings toppled, a weapon and drug dealers and tax evaders, size exceeded $ 100 billion.
She documents obtained by the "International Federation of Journalists investigative ICIJ" light on how to use the Swiss bank's own arm, the Swiss banking system of secrecy, to conceal the identities of account holders, and even help depositors to evade taxes.
The summary was based on "the International Federation of investigative reporters" to documents provided by a former employee of the bank to the French authorities in 2008, later obtained by the newspaper "Le Monde" French and distributed to various means of notification.
She drew a group of journalists to the repeated assurances given by the giant bank to its customers not to reveal confidential details of their accounts until the authorities of their country, next to "put multiple measures allows them to avoid paying taxes to their homeland."
He stressed the international banking giant, in a statement submitted to the "International Federation of Journalists investigative" subordination of the Swiss unit of private banking for "drastic reforms included measures recently increased the difficulty of tax evasion or money laundering," the customer.
He added that he "acknowledges responsibility for the failure to comply with the rules, and control of the performance over the past period."
According to the "International Federation of Journalists investigative" provided the bank services to circles close to the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, and his Tunisian counterpart, Ben Ali, in addition to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and former officials and current in Britain, Russia, Ukraine, and India.
He stressed, "Htc HSBC" in a statement, strongly reduced the number of accounts in private banking unit in Syria, more than 30 thousand in 2007, to about 10 thousand account now.
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Atlanta, United States (CNN) - investigative report revealed Hide the British bank "HSBC" bank accounts for different categories of customers from the heads of their popular uprisings toppled, a weapon and drug dealers and tax evaders, size exceeded $ 100 billion.
She documents obtained by the "International Federation of Journalists investigative ICIJ" light on how to use the Swiss bank's own arm, the Swiss banking system of secrecy, to conceal the identities of account holders, and even help depositors to evade taxes.
The summary was based on "the International Federation of investigative reporters" to documents provided by a former employee of the bank to the French authorities in 2008, later obtained by the newspaper "Le Monde" French and distributed to various means of notification.
She drew a group of journalists to the repeated assurances given by the giant bank to its customers not to reveal confidential details of their accounts until the authorities of their country, next to "put multiple measures allows them to avoid paying taxes to their homeland."
He stressed the international banking giant, in a statement submitted to the "International Federation of Journalists investigative" subordination of the Swiss unit of private banking for "drastic reforms included measures recently increased the difficulty of tax evasion or money laundering," the customer.
He added that he "acknowledges responsibility for the failure to comply with the rules, and control of the performance over the past period."
According to the "International Federation of Journalists investigative" provided the bank services to circles close to the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, and his Tunisian counterpart, Ben Ali, in addition to the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and former officials and current in Britain, Russia, Ukraine, and India.
He stressed, "Htc HSBC" in a statement, strongly reduced the number of accounts in private banking unit in Syria, more than 30 thousand in 2007, to about 10 thousand account now.
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