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Secrets of Swiss Success

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The United States and Switzerland are in talks on a deal that would let several Swiss and European banks join a common settlement and avoid US prosecution for helping wealthy Americans dodge taxes, persons briefed on the matter said. As part of the agreement, the banks would pay a fine, exit their undeclared offshore banking businesses for Americans, and turn over client names to the Internal Revenue Service and the Justice Department. The US agencies would drop an ongoing investigation into the banks.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/10/us-usa-taxes-swiss-idUSTRE75940920110610

Filed under: Banksters Credit Suisse DOJ HSBC IRS Julius Baer SEC Switzerland Taxation UBS
 

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attacked Switzerland for arresting a Swiss banker, Rudolf Elmer, on suspicion of breaching banking secrecy instead of investigating the tax evasion he said Elmer had uncovered. In an interview published in Swiss weekly Der Sonntag, Assange said Switzerland's actions were drawing renewed international attention to its controversial banking practices.

Switzerland's bank secrecy helped it build a $2 trillion wealth management industry but the laws have come under intense global attack in recent years, with neighboring Germany buying secret data from informants to track down tax evaders. Assange said Switzerland was not the only country involved in the offshore banking structures that were depriving tax authorities worldwide of some $22 billion.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70K4GT20110123
Filed under: Banksters Capitalism Julius Baer Rudolf Elmer Switzerland UBS WikiLeaks
 

Swiss pride

Switzerland's leading bank UBS could collapse if talks with the United States over a high-profile tax fraud investigation fall through, said Swiss justice minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. Speaking in an interview with Le Matin Dimanche, Ms Widmer-Schlumpf said the Swiss economy and job market would suffer on a major scale if UBS fails as a result of its licence being revoked in the United States.

Switzerland and the US have negotiated an agreement under which UBS would hand over information on some 4,500 account holders to US tax police. Many in Switzerland have, however, accused the government of failing to protect the country's banking sector. "We have nothing to blame ourselves for. I don't think anyone could prove that we acted badly," Ms Widmer-Schlumpf said.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.44ec3a3581bd2b87b081a9614648ee11.c61

Filed under: Banking Capitalism Corruption Switzerland
 

"Les suisses sont des mous salauds"

Je déteste la Suisse. C'est un pays qui me dégoûte depuis longtemps. Ce qui m'énerve par-dessus tout, c'est cette espèce de neutralité sous laquelle on se déguise pour ne jamais avoir à s'engager. Au final, on est plus salaud que les salauds.

Mais c'est ça, être Suisse: ça signifie collaborer, se coucher devant le gouvernement ou devant les grandes puissances. C'est la soi-disant neutralité de la Suisse, qui consiste toujours à ouvrir grandes ses portes et ses cuisses au plus puissant.

S'il y a un pays inutile, c'est bien celui-là! C'est une dictature soft, nulle, qui ne génère rien, ne propose rien, ne fait qu'entériner les décisions des autres. La Suisse, c'est le néant. La Suisse n'est pas un pays neutre, c'est un pays nul.

Elle vit calfeutrée dans sa lausannéité. C'est la mollesse dégueulasse. Voilà ce que sont les Suisses: des mous salauds.

http://www.lematin.ch/actu/suisse/yann-moix-suisses-mous-salauds-229729

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