The International Consortium for Investigative Journalism (ICIJ) conducted an investigation into the activities of the Geneva branch of HSBC bank and published on its website. It turned out that the bank provided secret accounts criminals, including drug traffickers and arms dealers. Many customers use the services of HSBC Bank for tax evasion.
A total of more than 100 thousand. Secret accounts kept more than $ 100 billion. Most of the money in the bank kept the Venezuelan government – $ 12.6 billion.
Information about the crimes of the bank opened thanks to HSBC employee Herve Falchiani, who retired in 2008, taking with him five discs with sensitive data. Details were given to French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, and from it – the governments of several countries. As information became available to the newspaper Le Monde, which agreed with ICIJ an investigation.
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