The giant Credit Suisse has been officially investigated in Milan for alleged maxi-laundering of funds blacks of thousands of wealthy Italian evaders. The blame is the Swiss parent company of the largest banking group, which is now under investigation directly, as a legal entity.
L’Espresso had anticipated a month ago the Milan investigation results, which could mark a turning point in the fight the great international evasion. The Guardia di Finanza, in fact, has reconstructed a blacklist of about 14,000 Italians (individuals, but also companies) who have moved abroad, through specific structures of Credit Suisse, over 14 billion Euros. Now, for the first time, the Prosecution has charged directly to the bank, which is accused of having organized an escape for years massive and systematic.
The figures quantified by the Guardia di Finanza in Milan are superior to those registered maxi-American in the analogous investigation against Credit Suisse in the US banking giant has been accused of having helped 22,000 taxpayers subtracted from the Treasury about 10 billion euro. In 2014 the Swiss bank decided to negotiate and has paid to the US authorities well 2 billion and 600 million dollars.
In the survey coordinated by the deputy prosecutor Francesco Greek and by prosecutors and Gaetano Ruta Antonio Pastor, the most important evidence had been discovered thanks to a surprise search at the branch office of Milan, inspected in December 2014. Among the papers of the Prosecutor, as revealed by the Espresso, ended also the secret instructions given by the bank to its officials to circumvent controls and escape the Italian investigations: a document-shock that investigators have ironically dubbed “the manual of the perfect evader-recycler.”
Now the Milan prosecutor’s office is preparing to close the inquiry-based charges ranging from tax evasion to illegal financial hurdle to supervision and recycling. The banking group is called into question directly under Law 231 of 2000, which also allows to indict corporations (legal persons). The individual positions of the approximately 14,000 Italian clients will instead be examined in the coming months.
About 4,000 alleged tax evaders would transfer as many as 8 billion euro in Bermuda using the same financial product outside the law: a fictitious insurance policy, formally issued by international structures of Credit Suisse Life & amp; Pension (CSLP), which since 2005 would be used to transfer the rivers of money abroad with the guarantee of the most absolute anonymity. Without even paying the so-called euro-restraint, that is, the mini-tax on bank interest earned on domestic deposits.
A spokesman for Credit Suisse for now replied that “the business with private clients focus on taxed assets “and that the group has” clear internal rules and processes to ensure that we conduct the work in accordance with the laws in force in Italy “: rules that the bank claims to have regularly applied in particular with the” voluntary disclousure “the law that in 2015 he had allowed to self-report and stabilize the hidden assets abroad.
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