Search Results for: tax evasion
Former KPMG partners arrested in ‘publicity stunt’, court told
May 19th, 2016
An investigation into suspected tax evasion targeted four former partners at Belfast accountancy firm KPMG in a publicity stunt, the High Court heard. HM Revenue and Customs misled judges into granting warrants to search the executives’ homes and offices ...
Russia wins Hague court appeal over $50bn Yukos judgement
April 21st, 2016
A Dutch appeal court has overturned an arbitration court decision which required Russia to pay shareholders in the former Yukos oil company $50 billion, the Interfax news agency reports. “We have won our appeal of the arbitration court decision ...
Five EU Countries Agree To Share Beneficial Ownership Data
April 18th, 2016
France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK have agreed to exchange data held on beneficial ownership registers and registers of trusts. This pilot project, initiated by the UK, will explore the best way for countries to share this information, ...
Swiss banker whistleblower: CIA behind Panama Papers
April 13th, 2016
Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information ...
The Panama Papers: This Is the Consequence of Centralized Money and Power
April 11th, 2016
Technologies such as the blockchain are enabling alternative ways of creating and distributing money outside central banks and states. If we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, we will never change anything. This is the core ...
Italian police open money laundering investigation of broker linked to HSBC
March 23rd, 2016
An Italian financial broker who worked on behalf of HSBC in the Swiss town of Lugano is under investigation for possible money laundering in a probe linked to a wider tax evasion case, an Italian finance police colonel told ...
Citigroup says being investigated in Germany over dividend trades
March 23rd, 2016
Citigroup (C.N) is being investigated by German tax authorities over an equity trading strategy known as “cum-ex” or “dividend stripping,” the U.S. bank said on Tuesday. Dividend stripping involves buying a stock just before its dividend rights expire, then ...
Two Cayman Island Financial Institutions Plead Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to Conspiring to Hide More Than $130 Million in Cayman Bank Accounts
March 10th, 2016
Cayman Companies Admit to Helping U.S. Taxpayer-Clients Hide Assets in Offshore Accounts, and Agree to Produce Account Files of Non-Compliant U.S. Taxpayers First Conviction of Non-Swiss Financial Institution For Tax Evasion Conspiracy U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern ...
Credit Suisse Said to Face Money-Laundering Probe in Italy
February 23rd, 2016
Bank also said to be probed for tax evasion in Milan case Bank says business has clear rules, focused on declared assets Milan prosecutors are investigating Credit Suisse Group AG on suspicion of money laundering and tax evasion over ...
How China’s Plans to Launch Its Own Currency Might Affect Bitcoin
January 26th, 2016
China’s central bank, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has revealed that it is in discussions to launch its own digital currency. What does this mean for Bitcoin? A statement by the PBOC about issuing its own digital currency is making its way ...
