UK HSBC under probe for opening criminals' accounts
November 10, 2012 11:48
HSBC, Britain's biggest bank, is at the centre of a major revenue and customs investigation after it opened offshore accounts in Jersey for
"serious criminals" living in the country, The Telegraph reported on
Saturday.
The tax authorities have obtained details of every British client
of HSBC in Jersey after a whistleblower secretly provided a detailed
list of names, addresses and account balances earlier this week, the
paper claimed.
The Telegraph reports that among those identified on the list are
Daniel Bayes, a drug dealer who is now in Venezuela; Michael Lee, who
was convicted of possessing more than 300 weapons at his house in Devon;
three bankers facing major fraud allegations and a man once dubbed
Londons number two computer crook".
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