The trial, which opens on Monday in Switzerland, the federal court of Bellinzona, come back on a case in which the facts took place during the summer of 2012, according to our colleagues of the newspaper The Morning . The perpetrator, a former employee of the giant swiss wealth management business, UBS, would have delivered the data bank of at least 233 customers of the bank to German authorities. Delivered, but not given. Because in return for this juicy collaboration, it would have received the sum of 1,1147 million euros! What to buy a house in Mallorca, Spain, which was sold a year later and is supposed to disguise the origin of funds, according to the public Ministry of the confederation, which retains grievance according to the indictment: information service qualified economic, violation of trade secret law and banking, as well as money laundering.
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To make matters worse, the accused shall also be liable for the act of unauthorized possession of ammunition, following searches at his home, and particularly in his night table, where investigators found ammunition prohibited. Poor discovery, to these same investigators, who had not found the slightest evidence relating to his / her German bank accounts, or to the house of Majorca bought with money from his collaboration. Not what, therefore, demonstrate the facts. According to the public Ministry of switzerland, the ex-employee of the largest bank in the country had collected data on place of work between 2005 and 2012 by searching the computer system and the paper documentation of the offices of the bank. With a clear target: the recipients of foundation.
Germany refuses to co-operate in order to preserve its higher interests
valuable information for the German authorities, which had initiated procedures as early as mid-November, compared to the approximately 233 customers of UBS in Germany in which the data had been revealed. Alerted by these procedures, these people are then addressed to their bank, which itself has triggered an investigation. The peculiarities of the data delivered have eventually led investigators to the employee, the sole owner of this information. The swiss authorities are, however, encountered the silence of the German authorities concerning the account held by the suspect in a small bank in germany. The multiple steps that have been taken by the public Ministry, the swiss have not given much better results, Berlin, stating finally that the mutual legal assistance with his neighbour, was refused because the swiss request could endanger the higher interests of Germany. What to confirm the suspicions…
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finally, in searching the car of the mother of the suspect that the investigators were able to find tangible evidence. The safe contained documents, wrapped in a blanket and giving information about the house of Mallorca and, therefore, on the payment of the money from the collaboration with the German authorities. For the time being, the requests of the prosecutor of switzerland are not yet known precise in The Morning . The trial is scheduled to last until Thursday. In France, the swiss bank is, for its part, recently passed by the correctional court of Paris for soliciting illicit and money laundering, aggravated tax fraud. It is also at UBS that the ex-minister Jerome Cahuzac had held undeclared funds, the discovery of which in 2017 by Médiapart had led to his resignation from the government.
