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Process / AFP | Monday February 9, 2015 | 21:53 hrs
Federal District – Hidden behind the company “Hmex Pres. Ltd. “, with headquarters in Singapore, the Mexican billionaire Carlos Hank Rhon hid $ 158 million in Swiss subsidiary of HSBC Bank between 2005 and 2007, protected by bank secrecy in this country, said the International Consortium of Journalism Research (CIPI).
In early 2014, the French newspaper Le Monde had access to internal files saved between 2006 and 2007 by the Swiss branch of HSBC, which revealed the bank details of more than 106 thousand customers and more than 20,000 offshore companies, through which more than 180 thousand € 600 million were transferred -the equivalent to 2 trillion 970 billion pesos, Geneva.
According to the data of “SwissLeaks” 893 thousand of these HSBC bank accounts in Switzerland belonging to Mexicans, while 2000 642 guests had a link with Mexico-39 percent of them had a Mexican passport -.
Overall, CIPI stored estimated that more than two thousand dollars 200 million in HSBC accounts were linked to Mexican.
While the CIPI has not yet revealed the names of all people involved in these suspicious transfers, said that “the maximum amount of money associated with a client connected to Mexico was 596 million dollars”, recalling that in 2007 the GDP per capita stood at just over nine thousand dollars the country.
As for Hank Rhon, the CIPI said part of one of the most powerful families in Mexico and the 800 richest in the world, and was investigated by both the Mexican justice as the US The Swiss and French, on alleged crimes of ‘washing’ and ties to drug trafficking, but concluded that at present “there are no charges pending against the Hank family.”
Carlos Hank Rhon is the eldest son of the late Carlos Hank González, former longtime head out Atlacomulco Group that owns the current president Enrique Peña Nieto.
In 2012, Forbes ranked him as the richest Mexican eighth of the country and the box 913 worldwide. His fortune was then estimated at 1.4 billion dollars.
His father was governor of Mexico and secretary of Tourism and Agriculture in Salinas is remembered for the phrase “a poor politician is a poor political. “
Apart from the son of the PRI Carlos Hank González, the CIPI noted that also billionaire Jaime Federico Said Camil Garza, who was investigated in 2013 in the United States for allegedly intermediary role it played in the bribes paid by the German company Siemens senior officials of Pemex in 2004.
The CIPI reported that Camil Garza opened “at least” two bank accounts in HSBC in 1994 and 2000 and said that “people Legal linked with the profile of Garza had addresses (tax havens) Liechtenstein and the Virgin Islands. “
Camil Garza defended before the CIPI, by asserting that his family had accounts at HSBC because his father was a close friend of the founder of the bank. He said he opened one of his accounts “in order to conduct business in the Middle East and Europe,” but said that this plan “failed”, so he closed in 2001.
He stated that ” not recognize “the other account because” spent 20 years since its creation. ” He concluded that “all my accounts in Switzerland were perfectly rules with Mexican tax authorities”.
Other Mexicans on the list are Luis Téllez, former president of the Mexican Stock Exchange and Alfredo Elias Ayub, former director . of the Federal Electricity Commission
Among the more than 106,000 customers HSBC in Geneva are, among others: arms dealers and drug, financial support of terrorist actors, politicians among them King of Morocco, celebrities, athletes and entrepreneurs.
The British bank HSBC, the second largest investment bank in the world, and repeatedly demonstrated the difference between ethical discourse bank and its fraudulent practices. In December 2012, US authorities imposed a fine of one thousand nine hundred million dollars for his role in laundering billions of dollars from the drug trade in Mexico.
According to Le Monde -the which led the research-, some specialized consultants subsidiary HSBC in Geneva organized a “comprehensive system of tax evasion” through the development of Offshore Companies ghost-in Panama and the Virgin Islands, among others, which Guaranteed to their customers enough opacity to circumvent national tax laws.
According to the CIPI, the French computer Hervé Falciani worked at the Swiss subsidiary of HSBC’s December 22, 2008, when agents Swiss federal police arrested him for allegedly stealing data from HSBC and attempt to sell them to a bank in Lebanon. He was released and cited the next day to explain it to justice.
The same day, Switzerland Falciani fled and took refuge in France with his family. There, you gave this huge database of foreign clients of HSBC subsidiary of Switzerland to judicial and fiscal authorities, who then opened an investigation for “illegal banking and financial incitement” and “washing of aggravated tax evasion money,” imitated days later by its Belgian, Argentine, American, Spanish, German and Italian counterparts.
But the “leak” does not sit well with the Swiss courts, the attorney general Falciani indicted on charges of “espionage economic “,” data theft “and” violation of trade secrets and banking “last December 11.
Meanwhile, HSBC denied at first time the veracity of the documents and then tried to cancel all research arguing that the files were recovered by a robbery.
In case, are involved numerous personalities from around the world.
Regarding Venezuela, the ICIJ notes main involved Alejandro Andrade, a former bodyguard of Hugo Chavez, who was president of the Treasury Office from 2007 to 2010 and chairman of the National Bank for Economic Development in Venezuela.
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