Of the 125,000 lines of files that are derived from the listings of the Swiss subsidiary of HSBC, the newspaper Le Monde has extracted 6300 as being in any way associated with France. Without necessarily suspects in do.
In France, the judicial investigation concluded that there were 2956 persons of interest to the administration.
The set of assets that passed on HSBC accounts in Switzerland between 2006 and 2007 reached a total of 180 billion euros. Of this, 85 billion, or nearly half, were filed on profiles of offshore companies.
Of the 106,000 HSBC customers in Switzerland, the most numerous are those of Swiss residents, which does not mean that Swiss citizens will be very numerous. Then there are French residents, companies or individuals, and British residents.
"All tax evasion, even the old are discovered daily. It's like that, the truth always prevails, says our analyst Robert Halver Frankfurt Baader Bank. For me all this clearly shows that the problem of tax evasion, wherever it is something we take care now. There will be other revelations but it is clear that the time has come. "
An official OECD said today it would be impossible to get to this case because the automatic exchange of tax information between States began in 2017. In short, the HSBC practices revealed in the press belongs the past.
