Madrid, February 10 (EFE) .- The Spanish Government has requested a study to decide whether to bring an action against the Swiss subsidiary of the British bank HSBC for possible involvement in tax evasion, following the publication of the list developed by the Italian-French Hervé Falciani computer.
This was announced today the Spanish Minister of Finance and Public Administration, Cristobal Montoro, during the control session the Government in the full Senate.
The Spanish F1 driver Fernando Alonso, the late president of the Spanish Banco Santander, Emilio Botín, president of the Paraguayan government Horacio Cartes, King Mohamed VI of Morocco or Jordan’s King Abdullah II, are some of the figures appearing in the list of HSBC customers with accounts in Switzerland.
The Spanish minister assured the Senate that the report will be advised of law of the State and the Spanish Tax Agency, and analyze responsibilities you may have the bank and its employees to the accounts of Spaniards who have defrauded the Spanish Treasury.
Montoro requested the study of “all legal actions can be exercised against HSBC, for their participation in the committing tax fraud, money laundering and other crimes committed by Spanish residents. “
Thus, Montoro has indicated that Spain will cooperate with other States affected by the accounts published by the so-called Lagarde list and which have already announced their relevant legal claims.
The approximately 4,000 people from Spain that appear on the list referred Faciani had about 1.769 million euros between 2006 and 2007, according to the online newspaper El Confidential.
The list of computer Falciani on secret accounts known politicians, businessmen, leading figures from the world of culture and sport, began to be published on Monday after an international investigation coordinated by the French daily Le Monde and The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), an organization based in Washington. EFE
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