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  • France to hand back stolen bank data 21 Dec 2009 23:42 GMT
    ... France to hand back stolen bank data By ... it would “very rapidly” comply with a Swiss demand for the return of the stolen ... to launch a crackdown on tax evaders. Switzerland had suspended ratification of a new bilateral ...

  • Swiss bank secrecy emerges from 2009 with holes 27 Dec 2009 05:32 GMT
    ... Yet, the Swiss banking industry insists that it was stirred ... launched another lawsuit. By August, Washington and Bern came up with a settlement, obliging UBS ... by their taxpayers. After the OECD told Switzerland to face up to a "new, much ...

  • France says will keep using stolen Swiss bank tax data 22 Dec 2009 07:52 GMT
    ... 22, 2009; 2:30 AM BEIJING (Reuters) - France will continue to use data stolen from ... agreed to return the client lists to Switzerland. "Of course they can be used. The ... China with Prime Minister Francois Fillon. Despite Swiss protests, French tax authorities have been using ...

  • RPT-UPDATE 1-France to hand back tax data to Switzerland 21 Dec 2009 18:53 GMT
    ... PARIS, Dec 21 (Reuters) - France will return client data stolen by a ... of a Geneva branch of HSBC to Switzerland, a French justice official said, in a ... from HSBC's private banking arm in Geneva. Swiss authorities, which had asked France to secure ...

  • France stands by use of stolen bank data 20 Dec 2009 17:52 GMT
    ... France stands by use of stolen bank data ... is that we obtained [the information] legally.” Switzerland has threatened to suspend ratification of a ... authorities, though he denies receiving payment. The Swiss government has demanded that the list of ...

  • UK Ambassador on Swiss Minarets Ban 20 Dec 2009 20:13 GMT
    ... The result of the Swiss referendum about whether those building mosques in Switzerland should be allowed to erect minarets has ... implications don't just affect those living in France. They affect us all. Assertion of rights ...

  • French showdown looms over stolen bank data 23 Dec 2009 19:11 GMT
    ... A dispute between Switzerland and France over stolen bank data and tax evasion ... over banking secrecy and the role of Swiss banks in hiding the assets of foreign ...

  • Bank data held by France incomplete: Swiss HSBC chief 20 Dec 2009 21:52 GMT
    ... Bank data held by France incomplete: Swiss HSBC chief Silhouettes of passersby reflect on ... taken from the HSBC Private Bank in Switzerland by an employee and held by French ...

  • French identity debate is getting out of control 22 Dec 2009 09:16 GMT
    ... The increasing diversity of the French population begs the ... identity. Le Blevec can tell all of France is up in arms about the national ... sentiment earlier expressed by Sarkozy. The recent Swiss referendum on minarets has pushed Islam even ...

  • France To Return Stolen Tax Data To Switzerland 24 Dec 2009 11:02 GMT
    ... France To Return Stolen Tax Data To Switzerland, Last updated 83 minutes ago | Thursday, ... said to have been stolen from a Swiss HSBC branch. IT expert Herv Falciani has ...

  • France plans to use 'HSBC files' 22 Dec 2009 17:11 GMT
    ... France's budget minister says even if the stolen files ... the HSBC private bank are returned to Swiss prosecutors, he'll still use the information in ... say they'll keep a copy. Last week Bern suspended tax negotiations with Paris over the ...

  • HSBC denies it ignored warning on Swiss data 21 Dec 2009 14:11 GMT
    ... 12:37 HSBC denies it ignored warning on Swiss data HSBC has rejected claims by a ... at the bank and felt loyal to France. "At the end of 2006, I alerted ... authorities. Following a lack of response from (Switzerland), I approached other authorities," he added, saying ...

  • No burqas in France? Ruling party moves to ban veils in public. 24 Dec 2009 04:36 GMT
    ... Islamic veils in all public places in France. It won't wait for the results of ... heels of a surprise vote in neighboring Switzerland last month to outlaw the construction of ... vaguely anti-Muslim echo effect here after the Swiss vote on minarets – has left many ...

  • Polanski sues French magazines over family photos 22 Dec 2009 20:02 GMT
    ... PARIS: Roman Polanski, under house arrest in Switzerland on child sex charges, is suing French ... returned to his chalet in the chic Swiss Alpine resort of Gstaad to continue his ... with a 13-year-old girl, is suing under France's strict privacy laws, which are seen as ...

  • France to send client data from HSBC back to Switzerland 21 Dec 2009 18:27 GMT
    ... AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (AP) - France will send Swiss authorities a list of bank accounts that ... the prosecutor's office in Aix-en-Provence said Monday. Switzerland had demanded the return of the data, ...


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