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The former chief executive officer of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss private bank pleaded guilty to helping wealthy clients hide assets worth at least 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) as French prosecutors flex their muscles to tackle white-collar crime.
August 7 -
A looming Swiss Supreme Court ruling could add to the bank's woes.
March 18 -
A Paris court found the bank guilty of helping wealthy French clients stash undeclared funds in Swiss accounts.
February 20 -
The Swiss lender eschewed a settlement in a French tax investigation after failing to agree on an amount, exposing it to in-court demands from the state.
February 19 -
Swiss prosecutors are seeking a four-year prison term for a former UBS Group AG employee accused of breaking bank secrecy laws after he allegedly stole client data and sold the information to German tax authorities.
January 9 -
The defendant is accused of selling stolen information to the German tax authorities.
January 7 -
A prosecutor at a high-profile Paris trial said UBS Group AG must be “punished” by a court for helping wealthy French clients hide money from tax authorities.
November 8 -
The bank repeatedly attacked the credibility of witnesses and insisted it had no knowledge about clients evading taxes.
October 29 -
A prosecutor in a high-profile French tax case questioned why UBS Group AG systematically destroyed handwritten notebooks detailing the movement of French clients’ funds to surrounding lower-tax countries.
October 19 -
About a decade after Swiss bank secrecy laws started to crumble under the impact of a U.S. investigation, one of the last large lenders still entangled in the matter agreed to settle the dispute.
August 14