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UK's Customs request information on Argentina's criminal case against HSBC
Britain's HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department has requested Argentina’s AFIP tax bureau information on the criminal report filed in Buenos Aires against HSBC on allegations the bank helped more than 4,000 clients to evade taxes by stashing their money in secret Swiss bank accounts. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesJust Argentina wanting MORE of other people's money.
Feb 12th, 2015 - 08:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0No wonder there is a big stink - no proper hygiene products.
Aryentinians ( Thx Paul C. ComfortBoy) will be washing their hair with cakes of lye soap or scraping oil off their bodies, like the Romans 2,000 years ago.
The Argy Ambassador to the US looks like she's doing that already.
Actually, it looks like she had a 'shaving mishap' too, and she's wearing one of Kicillof 's old suits she found crumpled on the floor.
I better not say anything more, Think likes her, and British Kirchnerist probably has a crush on her.
Distraction:
Feb 12th, 2015 - 10:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0rotting roadkill, pay your debts.
Isn't that where CFK hides her STASH?
Feb 12th, 2015 - 11:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Evidence” from the most corrupt 'advanced' country on the planet!
Feb 12th, 2015 - 12:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ha, ha, ha, ha.
This could be quite interesting.
Feb 12th, 2015 - 12:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Quote: “The ICIJ alleges that the bank profited from doing business with autocratic political leaders, tax evaders, dealers of blood diamonds, arms dealers and other clients.”
Will CFK and other argie politicos be amongst the auutocratic political leaders and tax evaders? Or have all those bits already been scrubbed?
Apparently readers of Mercopress who write everyday here about how corruption is so bad in Argentina take offense when the country takes some action against some of that corruption.
Feb 12th, 2015 - 02:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is there such thing as good corruption that should be left alone?
Judging by whats coming out about Hsbc's Swiss and French operations it seems Argentina was/is absolutely right about these banksters.
Feb 12th, 2015 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In terms of money in these accounts, account holders from Switzerland are on the top ($31.2 billion), followed by UK, Venezuela, US and France in the top five. (Indiatimes)
The bank now faces criminal investigations in the US, France, Belgium and Argentina, but not in the UK, where HSBC is based.
www.bbc.com/news/business-31248913
@7 Can you read boludo, it is in the title of the article. Just how thick are these Argies or can they not comprehend@
Feb 12th, 2015 - 03:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 07 Vestige
Feb 12th, 2015 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you even think before posting??
you've shown your true self - anything to call us villains, facts or no facts
LOL!!
@6. Don't be a wanker all your life? How many millions or billions does the CFK slag have? More names. Timerman, Moreno, Fernandez, Puricelli, Baez. The argie population. Sorry, forgot. If you've heard the name, it's corrupt. Not heard the name? Victim. Although 41 million argies need to be investigated for war crimes. 1982. Celebrate the Junta. War criminal!
Feb 12th, 2015 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7. Thicko!
Dear Swiss Collaborators:
Feb 12th, 2015 - 05:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please forward those HSBC rotting roadkillian account numbers to the clerks of the court for the NYC, NY and LV, NV federal districts. Since the funds are going to be claimed by rotting roadkill and since they are then subject to forfeiture in favor of Mr. Singer and friends, you can hold them while their final disposition is adjudicated in the United States.
Thanks.
Love and kisses.
9 - well yes I do. I also like to provide reliable citations. How about you ? Do you like to call names and scrawl schoolyard nonsense all over the internet ?
Feb 12th, 2015 - 05:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0rotting roadkill:
Feb 12th, 2015 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pay your debts.
Vestige,
Feb 12th, 2015 - 06:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What is your point??
Are you saying the UK government is complicit in HSBC assisting British citizens and businesses avoid paying taxes?
The article talks about the UK investigating HSBC and gathering evidence.
Your agenda seems to be to defame the UK, rather than the bank.
Where is the capital of Argentina ?
Feb 12th, 2015 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In Switzerland !
Boom boom tish !
7> Banksters...
Feb 12th, 2015 - 07:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You are a moron.
People have every right to put their money wherever they want.
petty name calling. quite infantile.
Feb 12th, 2015 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They have their right to put their money wherever they want, but that doesn't include the portion owed to/owned by their government.
The bank now faces criminal investigations in the US, France, Belgium and Argentina, but not in the UK, where HSBC is based.
www.bbc.com/news/business-31248913
In the US, a 2012 US Senate committee report was highly critical of HSBC’s poor money laundering controls, accusing managers of disregarding links to terrorist financing.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/12/hsbc-files-swiss-bank-hid-money-for-suspected-criminals
17 Vestige
Feb 12th, 2015 - 09:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The bank now faces criminal investigations in the US, France, Belgium and Argentina, but not in the UK, where HSBC is based.
www.bbc.com/news/business-31248913”
Again, so what??
are you implying that the UK government condones tax evasion?
Of course not - that does not make sense - the UK would stand to lose revenue as well.
As it is - this article says they are actively looking for evidence.
In the UK,
”In the UK, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) plans to investigate the scandal and will require HSBC's former head to give evidence.“
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31327042
”As a result of investigations by the HMRC, some $190 million in unpaid tax, interest and penalties have since been handed over by the British citizens involved,”
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31327042
more...
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-31327042
Has the UK hindered this investigation?
Feb 13th, 2015 - 01:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nope.
Says a lot about the UK.
Simply showing that Argentina was right in its attitudes towards hsbc - its not a matter of Argentina inventing a case for its own benefit, hsbc is being investigated in broadsheets, in GBs parliament, on news media, by police forces around the world for large scale, long duration white collar crimes in the billions.
Feb 13th, 2015 - 02:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0There was much butthurt and name calling on this site not so long ago when Argentina took its first actions against hsbc, now as the names and numbers get leaked it seems other governments are taking similar actions.
yet what do we get from you Troy ?
- “Just Argentina wanting MORE of other people's money.”
19 Skip “Says a lot about the UK”
Feb 13th, 2015 - 03:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yep..
“British-based bank HSBC for the largest drug-and-terrorism money-laundering case ever”
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214#ixzz3RaohEQWU
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Yes it does.
Feb 13th, 2015 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Because so far you haven't shown the UK government stopping or hindering or hiding any of these facts.
Al Marcos and Vestige keep doing is making the UK look good because they can actually find out all this information. There's no cover up or nationalisation or sticky the courts to circumvent investigation or anybody being suicided.
Nice. Read all about it.
10 Conqueror:
Feb 13th, 2015 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“How many millions or billions does the CFK slag have?”
Come on. What sympathies you think you will conquer with such a posting?
Let's be serious for a minute and be against ALL corruption cases--not just those of our choice. If you just retort with allegations (unproven so far) against people in governments you don't agree with you are just showing inflated political opportunism and little credibility.
“For at least half a decade, the storied British colonial banking power helped to wash hundreds of millions of dollars for drug mobs, including Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, suspected in tens of thousands of murders just in the past 10 years – people so totally evil, jokes former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, that ”they make the guys on Wall Street look good.“ The bank also moved money for organizations linked to Al Qaeda and Hezbollah, and for Russian gangsters; helped countries like Iran, the Sudan and North Korea evade sanctions; and, in between helping murderers and terrorists and rogue states, aided countless common tax cheats in hiding their cash”
Feb 13th, 2015 - 05:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/gangster-bankers-too-big-to-jail-20130214#ixzz3Re54KJrS
Nice.
Feb 13th, 2015 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@24 Marcos 4th rate Troll
“Read all about it” is right.
No secrets here.
However... back in Argentina...
Argentina made an early move on the hsbc shysters - mercopress trolls engaged in much butthurt, name calling and finger pointing.
Feb 13th, 2015 - 09:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0List comes out - several other governments do likewise, hsbc all over the news.
Mercopress trolls at this point not only don't have the integrity to take back the wrongful accusations, they don't even have enough dignity to simply slink off quietly, nope - indeed quite the opposite.
@26 MP Troll
Feb 14th, 2015 - 12:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0is trying to implicate the UK government, as though they are complicit in tax evasion - that doesn't make sense - UK gov. would lose £m's if not £b's that way.
This isn't Argentina- where CFK rules by decree, and directly controls the Federal Bank and the Judiciary - where it is CFK and Timerman trying to hide money.
What a chump you are.
This article quite clearly says that UK Customs & Revenue are investigating HSBC.
Remember, no criminal charges without evidence.
BTW, nice finger-pointing at HSBC, when you have so much corruption at home.
How's BouDou in Deep Dou Dou ???
@23. But then argieland likes to threaten. Putrid Jelly. UK nuclear warheads are dialable. Imagine a 100-kiloton warhead on Buenos Aires.
Feb 15th, 2015 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The latest 'talk', for those that pay attention, is that both Queen Elizabeth class carriers will enter service. Trident is essential and the number of Successor class submarines should be increased to six.
Heh heh Hepatia quotes Conq, as an authority!!!
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