Tag: Herve Falciani

• Saturday, June 20th 2015 - 00:14 UTC

  Argentine congress members in Paris investigating HSBC with whistleblowers

  

  Members of the Argentina's congressional bicameral commission investigating HSBC alleged illegal scheme to help Argentines evade taxes and siphon money out of the country, met in Paris with a group of French legislators and with UBS whistleblower Stéphanie Gibaud.

• Monday, April 13th 2015 - 07:38 UTC

  French magistrates order HSBC to post a 1bn Euro bail to cover potential fine

  

  French judges have ordered HSBC Holdings to post a one-billion Euro bail to cover a potential fine after the bank was put under formal criminal investigation over allegations it helped customers dodge their taxes.

• Thursday, March 12th 2015 - 00:53 UTC

  HSBC top officers insist on staying; blame lower staff and the media and accept MPs criticisms

  

  HSBC executives have been accused by MPs of incompetence for saying they were unaware of tax evasion activities in their Swiss private bank. However Chris Meares, the ex-head of HSBC's private banking division, said he didn't know what staff “were up to”.

• Thursday, February 19th 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  HSBC Swiss office searched by Geneva prosectuor; second probe in a week

  

  Geneva's public prosecutor searched HSBC's lakeside Swiss office on Wednesday after opening a criminal inquiry into allegations of aggravated money laundering, the second probe to hit the bank this week.

• Friday, December 12th 2014 - 06:43 UTC

  Switzerland charges former HSBC analyst with industrial espionage

  

  Switzerland has charged a former computer analyst at HSBC's private bank in Geneva with industrial espionage and breaching the country's secrecy laws for passing confidential client data to foreign authorities.