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70. Authorities raid French offices of UBS in tax probe

Sun Sep 23, 2012, 08:49 AM

Sep 2012

http://www.france24.com/en/20120919-raid-french-offices-ubs-swiss-bank-tax-evasion-probe-paris-lyon-strasbourg-bordeaux

French authorities raided the Paris headquarters of Swiss bank UBS as well as its offices in Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Lyon on Wednesday as part of a probe launched last year into suspicions of tax evasion.

French authorities on Wednesday raided the headquarters of Swiss bank UBS in connection with a probe into alleged tax evasion, a bank spokesman said.

He said "an investigating judge came to the Paris headquarters of UBS France in connection with his probe," confirming information given by a source close to the affair.

Two people have been charged with money laundering and complicity in illegal soliciting of business following an investigation opened last year into UBS's business practices.

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