Argentina suspends HSBC from transferring money abroad for 30 days

Tuesday, January 13th 2015 - 08:31 UTC

Full article 9 comments

Argentina said on Monday it was suspending HSBC Bank Argentina's right to transfer money abroad for 30 days due to “irregularities”, two months after charging it with helping clients evade taxes by siphoning their funds off to Switzerland. Read full article

Comments

Disclaimer & comment rules

chronic
Shocking! Lol.
Jan 13th, 2015 - 03:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Conqueror
HSBC. Don't worry about it. How could they tell?
Jan 13th, 2015 - 04:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
chronic
psst. More likely that they threatened to actually reveal who the transferers were! This exportation sans taxes was obviously known in advance to Cretina and cronies. lol.

Shame on you HSBC for collaboration/facilitation with rotting roadkill.
Jan 13th, 2015 - 05:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
ChrisR
It's just one bunch of argies attempting to graft another bunch of argies: no harm done!
Jan 13th, 2015 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Pete Bog
“charged HSBC with aiding more than 4,000 clients to evade taxes by stashing their money in secret Swiss bank accounts.”

Do the Peronist government use another bank to stash theirs overseas?
Jan 13th, 2015 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Teaboy2
Is it not against the law for a bank to refuse customers requests to transfer their money to other banks? Think they will find that it is, unless the account holder and their financial assets are subject to court order or illegal proceeds. As at the end of the day the money belongs to the account holder, not the bank!
Jan 13th, 2015 - 07:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
ChrisR
“As at the end of the day the money belongs to the account holder, not the bank!”

Not if the argie ‘government’ decide to de-dollarize every citizen’s dollar account with the ‘official rate of argie arsewipe Pesos.

They have done it before and probably have advanced plans to do it soon.

It must be grand to live there!
Jan 13th, 2015 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
Andy65
Why any reputable company wants to do business in this backward place
Jan 14th, 2015 - 01:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
-+
imoyaro
At least somebody is questioning it. Wonder how long they will take to silence him.

http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/179423/%E2%80%98it%E2%80%99s-terrible-that-the-gov%E2%80%99t-wants-to-convince-the-people-that-there%E2%80%99s-no-inflation-no-crime%E2%80%99
Jan 14th, 2015 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0
-+

Commenting for this story is now closed.
If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page!