Όλα αυτά μέσα στις τρείς τελευταίες ημέρες...Ξεκινάμε την αφήγηση...
...Τέσσερις ημέρες πριν από τα Χριστούγεννα (21 Δεκεμβρίου 2010)
"Μαιμουδιές" με swaps και άλλες "λαθροχειρίες"!
Ο κατάλογος ...βαρύς!
Από τη μια: Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of America and UBS
Και από την άλλη: Natixis SA, Dexia Crediop SpA and Banca Monte Paschi di Siena SpA
Aπό κατά τ' άλλα ευηπόληπτους, ασπίλους και αμόλυντους κολοσσούς του καπιταλισμού !!!
Και σε αυτή την περίπτωση ενεπλάκη η αστυνομία...
Πήγαν -με το γνωστό κόλπο- να καλύψουν τα χρέη φορέων τοπικής αυτοδιοίκησης!
...Ο δήμος της Φλωρεντίας, η περιφέρεια της Τοσκάνης και άλλες τρείς κοινότητες της περιοχής...
Λέτε να πούν τώρα ξεδιάντροπα στους ψηφοφόρους και συμπολίτες τους "μαζί τα φάγαμε"?
Καθόλου απίθανο!
Συνήθης -και αήθης- πρακτική!
...Ενώ μια ημέρα πριν (20 Δεκεμβρίου 2010)
Ελβετός πρώην τραπεζίτης της UBS, κρίθηκε ένοχος γιατί διευκόλυνε Αμερικανούς πελάτες του να αποκρύψουν τις περιουσίες τους...
"...Former UBS AG banker Renzo Gadola will plead guilty this week in federal court in Miami, where U.S. prosecutors charged him with helping American clients hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service, court records show...". γράφει το Bloomberg.
Λέτε να ήταν φτωχαδάκια οι πελάτες του?
Μπά, δεν νομίζω!!!
...Και δυό ημέρες μετά (23 Δεκεμβρίου 2010)
Ένας Έλληνας (Stephanou) πρωην τραπεζίτης της UBS AG investment -και αυτός της UBS- αφέθηκε ελεύθερος μετά από 19 μήνες φυλάκιση, αφού πρώτα "έδωσε" έναν άλλον Έλληνα (?) (Contorinis), πρώην μάνατζερ της Jefferies Paragon Fund που κατηγορήθηκε για συμμετοχή σε insider-trading scheme, με παράνομα κέρδη ύψους 7 εκατομμυρίων $.
Βρε τι γίνεται με τους πρώην τραπεζίτες?
Βρε τι γίνεται με τη UBS?
Βρε τι γίνεται με τις άλλες ομογάλακτες τράπεζες-κολοσσούς, που μας "τα τρώνε" και μετά μας παριστάνουν τις παρθένες?
Και μετά μας λένε να τους εμπιστευόμαστε?
Μήπως τελικά, δεν "τα φάγαμε μαζί"?
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1. Bank of America, UBS Assets Seized in Italy Swap Probe
By Elisa Martinuzzi
Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s finance police seized 22 million euros ($29 million) from six lenders including Bank of America Corp. amid allegations of fraud in a probe focusing on the sale of derivatives to five municipalities in central Italy.
Police said they took 15 million euros from Bank of America, and 1.7 million euros each from Deutsche Bank AG and UBS AG, according to an e-mailed statement. The remainder was seized from Natixis SA, Dexia Crediop SpA and Banca Monte Paschi di Siena SpA.
The amount represents the alleged illicit profit the banks made from selling derivatives to the city of Florence, the region of Tuscany and three other municipalities in the region, the police said. The local governments have lost about 123 million euros on the swaps that adjusted payments on 1.4 billion euros of debt, the police said.
Losses on derivatives from Puglia, on the heel of Italy, to Liguria, the region that borders France along the Mediterranean, are prompting local governments to review their arrangements, while lawmakers have proposed rules that limit the use of swaps. Four banks are on trial in Milan for alleged fraud in the sale of derivatives to the city.
A spokesman for Bank of America in London and a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bank in Milan declined to comment, while a spokeswoman for UBS in Milan didn’t have an immediate comment. Officials for Natixis, Monte Paschi, and Dexia couldn’t be reached immediately.
The banks misled the municipalities by saying that the deals would be economically advantageous, Florence’s finance police said. The homes of some bankers and council officials were also searched today, the police said.
The city of Florence on Dec. 9 suspended payments to Bank of America, UBS and Dexia on swaps in a separate measure led by the local government. In that case, the municipality is using a clause that enables public administrations to cancel contracts without seeking legal recourse.
--With assistance from Marco Bertacche and Jerrold Colten in Milan. Editors: Edward Evans, Anthony Aarons.
To contact the reporter on this story: Elisa Martinuzzi in Milan at emartinuzzi@bloomberg.net
By David Voreacos
December 20, 2010, 2:15 PM EST
(Updates in second paragraph with judge’s order.)
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Former UBS AG banker Renzo Gadola will plead guilty this week in federal court in Miami, where U.S. prosecutors charged him with helping American clients hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service, court records show.
Gadola, 44, was accused of conspiring with a Swiss banker to encourage U.S. clients who hadn’t told the IRS about their UBS accounts to open undeclared accounts at Basler Kantonalbank. Gadola was first charged by U.S. authorities on Nov. 7, and his case was made public Dec. 15. He will appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Garber, court records filed today show.
The unidentified Swiss banker, along with Gadola, told clients not to join a partial amnesty program that led 18,000 Americans to disclose offshore accounts to the IRS, prosecutors said.
Gadola and the banker told U.S. clients “not to disclose their undeclared accounts at Basler Kantonalbank and other banks to the United States government, including the IRS,” according to court filings.
UBS, the largest Swiss bank, admitted last year that it helped thousands of Americans evade taxes. The bank, which avoided prosecution by paying $780 million, also gave secret account data on thousands of Americans to the IRS. U.S. prosecutors have charged at least 24 UBS clients, as well as three ex-UBS bankers and two other advisers.
Gadola, who worked at UBS from 1995 to 2008, is the first person charged with trying to discourage taxpayers from entering the IRS voluntary disclosure program. Basler Kantonalbank, based in Basel, hasn’t previously been linked to the U.S. crackdown. The bank has signed an agreement requiring it to withhold taxes for the IRS on accounts beneficially owned by U.S. taxpayers.
Peter Raben, Gadola’s attorney, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment today.
The case is U.S. v. Gadola, 10-cr-20878, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (Miami).
--Editors: Andrew Dunn, Michael Hytha.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Voreacos in Newark, New Jersey, atdvoreacos@bloomberg.net;
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David E. Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.net
December 22, 2010
11:31 AM ESTDec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Ex-UBS AG investment banker Nicos Stephanou, formerly an associate director of mergers and acquisitions at the Zurich-based company, will serve no more time after testifying for prosecutors at an insider-trading trial, a judge ruled.
Stephanou, sentenced today in federal court in New York, was the government’s star witness in the trial of Joseph Contorinis, a former money manager at Jefferies Paragon Fund convicted in October in an insider-trading scheme that prosecutors said netted more than $7 million in illegal profits. Stephanou spent 19 months in custody after his arrest.
Bloomberg
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-22/ex-ubs-banker-stephanou-gets-no-more-prison-time-in-trading-case.html
By David Glovin
Bloomberg
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-20/ex-ubs-banker-gadola-to-plead-guilty-in-u-s-tax-case.html
December 21, 2010, 11:14 PM EST
(Adds details from second paragraph.)Dec. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s finance police seized 22 million euros ($29 million) from six lenders including Bank of America Corp. amid allegations of fraud in a probe focusing on the sale of derivatives to five municipalities in central Italy.
Police said they took 15 million euros from Bank of America, and 1.7 million euros each from Deutsche Bank AG and UBS AG, according to an e-mailed statement. The remainder was seized from Natixis SA, Dexia Crediop SpA and Banca Monte Paschi di Siena SpA.
The amount represents the alleged illicit profit the banks made from selling derivatives to the city of Florence, the region of Tuscany and three other municipalities in the region, the police said. The local governments have lost about 123 million euros on the swaps that adjusted payments on 1.4 billion euros of debt, the police said.
Losses on derivatives from Puglia, on the heel of Italy, to Liguria, the region that borders France along the Mediterranean, are prompting local governments to review their arrangements, while lawmakers have proposed rules that limit the use of swaps. Four banks are on trial in Milan for alleged fraud in the sale of derivatives to the city.
A spokesman for Bank of America in London and a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bank in Milan declined to comment, while a spokeswoman for UBS in Milan didn’t have an immediate comment. Officials for Natixis, Monte Paschi, and Dexia couldn’t be reached immediately.
The banks misled the municipalities by saying that the deals would be economically advantageous, Florence’s finance police said. The homes of some bankers and council officials were also searched today, the police said.
The city of Florence on Dec. 9 suspended payments to Bank of America, UBS and Dexia on swaps in a separate measure led by the local government. In that case, the municipality is using a clause that enables public administrations to cancel contracts without seeking legal recourse.
--With assistance from Marco Bertacche and Jerrold Colten in Milan. Editors: Edward Evans, Anthony Aarons.
To contact the reporter on this story: Elisa Martinuzzi in Milan at emartinuzzi@bloomberg.net
2. Ex-UBS Banker Gadola to Plead Guilty in U.S. Tax Case
By David Voreacos
December 20, 2010, 2:15 PM EST
(Updates in second paragraph with judge’s order.)
Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Former UBS AG banker Renzo Gadola will plead guilty this week in federal court in Miami, where U.S. prosecutors charged him with helping American clients hide assets from the Internal Revenue Service, court records show.
Gadola, 44, was accused of conspiring with a Swiss banker to encourage U.S. clients who hadn’t told the IRS about their UBS accounts to open undeclared accounts at Basler Kantonalbank. Gadola was first charged by U.S. authorities on Nov. 7, and his case was made public Dec. 15. He will appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Garber, court records filed today show.
The unidentified Swiss banker, along with Gadola, told clients not to join a partial amnesty program that led 18,000 Americans to disclose offshore accounts to the IRS, prosecutors said.
Gadola and the banker told U.S. clients “not to disclose their undeclared accounts at Basler Kantonalbank and other banks to the United States government, including the IRS,” according to court filings.
UBS, the largest Swiss bank, admitted last year that it helped thousands of Americans evade taxes. The bank, which avoided prosecution by paying $780 million, also gave secret account data on thousands of Americans to the IRS. U.S. prosecutors have charged at least 24 UBS clients, as well as three ex-UBS bankers and two other advisers.
Gadola, who worked at UBS from 1995 to 2008, is the first person charged with trying to discourage taxpayers from entering the IRS voluntary disclosure program. Basler Kantonalbank, based in Basel, hasn’t previously been linked to the U.S. crackdown. The bank has signed an agreement requiring it to withhold taxes for the IRS on accounts beneficially owned by U.S. taxpayers.
Peter Raben, Gadola’s attorney, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment today.
The case is U.S. v. Gadola, 10-cr-20878, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (Miami).
--Editors: Andrew Dunn, Michael Hytha.
To contact the reporter on this story: David Voreacos in Newark, New Jersey, atdvoreacos@bloomberg.net;
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David E. Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.net
3. Ex-UBS Banker Stephanou Gets No More Prison Time in Trading Case
December 22, 2010
11:31 AM ESTDec. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Ex-UBS AG investment banker Nicos Stephanou, formerly an associate director of mergers and acquisitions at the Zurich-based company, will serve no more time after testifying for prosecutors at an insider-trading trial, a judge ruled.
Stephanou, sentenced today in federal court in New York, was the government’s star witness in the trial of Joseph Contorinis, a former money manager at Jefferies Paragon Fund convicted in October in an insider-trading scheme that prosecutors said netted more than $7 million in illegal profits. Stephanou spent 19 months in custody after his arrest.
Bloomberg
http://www.businessweek.com/
By David Glovin
Bloomberg
http://www.businessweek.com/
