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UBS Group AG building in St. Gallen.UBS maintains strict banking secrecy practices which have been used to facilitate tax evasion. The Swiss investment bank and financial services company, UBS Group AG, has been at the center of numerous tax evasion and avoidance investigations undertaken by U.S., French, German, Israeli, and Belgian tax authorities as a consequence of their strict banking ...
Swiss bank UBS is set to shell out more than $1.4 billion to settle accusations of “historic” fraud relating to its role in the 2008 financial crisis. ... “Under the terms of the settlement ...
UBS will pay U.S. authorities $1.44 billion to settle the last lingering legal case over Wall Street's role in the housing bubble of the early 2000s, which ultimately led to the 2008 financial ...
UBS agreed to pay $1.44 billion in penalties to settle allegations of fraud in the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities, the Department of Justice announced on Monday, resolving a case ...
Bradley Charles Birkenfeld (born February 26, 1965) is an American private banker, Author of Lucifer's Banker, convicted felon, and whistleblower.During the mid- to late-2000s, he made a series of disclosures about UBS Group AG clients, in violation of Swiss banking secrecy laws, to the U.S. government alleging possible tax evasion.
In 2008, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation began probing a multimillion-dollar tax evasion case involving UBS due to disclosures made by Brad Birkenfeld, a former UBS banker in Switzerland, who was arrested entering the United States and cooperated with the US Department of Justice, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, and the US ...
Steffen Schmidt, Keystone/AP WASHINGTON and LONDON -- UBS will pay $885 million in a settlement with a U.S. regulator over allegations the Swiss bank misrepresented mortgage-backed bonds during ...
Five clients of Swiss bank UBS (UBS) received criminal indictments for tax evasion Thursday in what may ultimately become a dragnet of sorts for those caught up in the UBS overseas asset ...