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Secret Swiss Bank Accounts' Days May Be Numbered

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Following a heavily publicized settlement between U.S. prosecutors and Swiss bank UBS, the Justice Department is seeking the names of 52,000 U.S. citizens it believes have secret accounts. The Swiss government is determined to protect banking secrecy, but both the U.S. and the EU are on the warpath — posing a threat to a key plank of the Alpine country's economy.

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  • The EU is the whorst union alive. Switzerland should never enter in the EU. And btw. the financial crisis begun in the USA and now the US-Governement is attacking Switzerland to be tax-friendly? wtf?

  • Not ALL account holders of Swiss Bank accounts are tax cheats. There are MANY HONEST U.S. Citizens who simply do not want to loose their money when U.S. Banks fail because they approve loans to wannabe's who default because they shouldn't have been approved in first place because they were borrowing OVER THEIR HEADS!!!!!!! So now we've gotten to the place were everyone with a Swiss account is GUILTY until proven INNOCENT.

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  • Disgusting.

  • You forgot to add.

    Where most powerful politicians and world Presidents invest their money?

    Answer: Swiss banks.

    The secret Swiss bank account days are far from over, too many people involved, and that's how the world goes around. This UBS incident will blow off like everything else in the past. If you are looking for a honest world with fair justice for all, then you will have to look for another planet. It's just the way it is man.

  • ST. THOMAS in the US Virgin islands is the most corrupt receptacle of dirty bank accounts, fake enterprises and MONEY LAVATORY in the Americas .... the US cannot teach moral to anyone, dude.

  • What a wonderful country Switzerland is build on black money from all over the world.

    Where do corrupt politicians invest their money?

    Answer:Swiss banks

    Where do corrupt businessmen invest their money?

    Answer:Swiss banks

    Where do Mafia or other kinds of criminal organizations invest their money?

    Answer:Swiss banks

  • Top five

    India---- $1456 billion

    Russia---$ 470 billion

    UK-------$390 billion

    Ukraine- $100 billion

    China-----$ 96 billion

    Now do the maths - India with $1456 billion or $1.4 trillion has more money in Swiss banks than rest of the world combined. Public loot since 1947: Can we bring back our money? It is one of the biggest loots witnessed by mankind -- the loot of the Aam Aadmi (common man) since 1947.

  • C-SPAN: Congress led by Sen. Carl Levin investigates 52,000 Offshore Secret Swiss Bank Accounts from wealthy Americans & US Corporations hiding BILLIONS to not pay US tax.

    Swiss Banks broke US laws & defraud the US Taxpayers, paid $780 millions in fines to the US.

    Swiss Government refused to divulge the names of American account holders.

    It's clear that some Wealthy Americans & Big Corps are unwilling to help restore our faulty economy.

    The Middle Class has no Offshore Accounts.

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