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Swiss Leaks (or SwissLeaks) is a journalistic investigation, released in February 2015, of a giant tax evasion scheme allegedly operated with the knowledge and encouragement of the British multinational bank HSBC via its Swiss subsidiary, HSBC Private Bank (Suisse). [1]
Falciani created the "Lagarde list", a list of HSBC clients who allegedly used the bank to evade taxes and launder money. Falciani leaked the list to ex-French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde (currently the President of the European Central Bank). Lagarde, in turn, sent the list to governments whose citizens were on the list. [6]
The Lagarde List is a spreadsheet containing roughly 2,000 potential tax evaders with undeclared accounts at Swiss HSBC bank's Geneva branch. It is named after former French finance minister Christine Lagarde , who in October 2010 passed it on to Greek officials to help them crack down on tax evasion.
A report by the BBC suggests that the FinCen Files reveal that the United Kingdom bank HSBC was involved in numerous illegal money transfers. [39] At the time, HSBC was subject to a deferred prosecution agreement for the laundering of $881 million on behalf of the Sinaloa and Norte del Valle cartels. [2]
2012 Stratfor email leak: Public disclosure of a number of internal emails between global intelligence company Stratfor's employees and its clients. Unaoil Leak: A leaked cache of emails dating from 2001 to 2012 sent within Unaoil revealed that Unaoil's operatives bribed officials in oil-producing nations in order to win government-funded projects.
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in February 2025 ) and then linked below. 2025
In February 2015,balances for the year 2006–07 in HSBC's Geneva branch. The list was obtained by French newspaper Le Monde and included the names of several prominent businessmen, diamond traders and politicians. [24] The number of Indian HSBC clients is roughly double the 628 names that French authorities gave to the Indian Government in ...
This is a partial list of people named in the Pandora Papers as shareholders, directors and beneficiaries of offshore companies. In total, 35 current and former national leaders appear in the leaked documents, alongside 400 officials from nearly 100 countries. More than 100 billionaires, 29,000 offshore accounts, 30 current and former leaders ...