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Swiss bank pleads guilty in US court to helping tax evasion and closes definitely
Switzerland's oldest bank is to close permanently after pleading guilty in a New York court to helping Americans evade their taxes. Wegelin, which was established in 1741, has also agreed to pay 57.8m dollars in fines to US authorities. The bank had admitted to allowing more than 100 American citizens to hide 1.2bn dollars from the Internal Revenue Service for almost 10 years. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesChileans stick to your own problems
Jan 04th, 2013 - 10:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/04/chile-police-businessman-wife-die-as-home-burns-during-attack-by-mapuche/
stúpid Americans......
Jan 05th, 2013 - 10:09 am - Link - Report abuse 0they must léave US citizénship for the lôwer rate coúntríes.
I wonder if TMBOA has her illegally obtained money in this bank?
Jan 05th, 2013 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0this is a balánce game..
Jan 06th, 2013 - 11:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0some citízens could migrate out if you destroy the bálance opposing of cítizens according to the staté .
Good news, hopefully more of these corrupt dominoes will fall...
Jan 08th, 2013 - 12:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0#3 I could just as well ask you when you stopped beating your wife; my answer to your leading question is No, but because I don't think Cristina has any “illegally obtained money”, not because its in some other bank if not this one =)
@5 B_S_K
Jan 08th, 2013 - 05:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, come on!
Don't tell me she has got her multi-millions from her salary while she was in office!
Even one of her supporters, a popular singer, has questioned how she can get this money while in office.
The laugh of course is she claims to have got it as a lawyer when she did not obtain her degree or her lawyer’s charter.
Nestor of course had a USD 300 M interest free loan from the state he was running at the time! He was being investigated when he attained the Presidency for the first time and you know what: the case was mysteriously dropped! What a surprise.
She is a crook, a liar and one of the worst Presidents AG has ever had and that’s saying something.
But you know this really, don't you?
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