The HSBC board game that defies all-comers
Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard, Mrs White and the Reverend Green. Why do I awaken this sunless morn to thoughts of Cluedo?
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As HSBC issues an apology over tax allegations, Business Secretary Vince Cable says HM Revenue and Customs “could be doing a great deal more” to address such issues.
An email HSBC whistleblower Herve Falciani says he sent Revenue and Customs about alleged tax evasion comes to light.
HSBC whistleblower Herve Falciani tells Channel 4 News that the UK authorities have a good opportunity to collaborate with their Spanish counterparts over wrongdoing at HSBC’s Swiss branch.
Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard, Mrs White and the Reverend Green. Why do I awaken this sunless morn to thoughts of Cluedo?
The boss of HMRC Lin Homer faces a grilling in front of the Public Accounts Committee later today. If Channel 4 News had a seat at the table here’s 10 things we’d love to ask her.
Revelations of apparent wrongdoing at a branch of the HSBC bank in Geneva have put the bank, and its former chairman Lord Green, in the spotlight. This is how the story unfolded.
As tax chiefs are reeling over criticism of their failure to track down tax avoiders in Switzerland, they now face another scandal, and another whistleblower, over HSBC’s operation in the UK.
There were more questions posed than answers given today in connection with HSBC. Why, for example, did HMRC not tell anyone it received a file with allegations against the bank in 2010?
The theft of thousands of HSBC clients’ financial details led to a major probe into tax evasion and money laundering. In 2013, the whistleblower who took the data talked to Channel 4 News.
Britain’s biggest bank HSBC is accused of helping clients evade taxes after a massive cache of leaked files about secret Swiss bank accounts is published.
Labour MP Shabana Mahmood says that the party had a strong record in dealing with tax evasion. However, MP Mark Garnier says the Tories made the people in charge of banks personally liable.
HSBC agrees to pay $1.9bn (£1.2bn) to US authorities in relation to a money-laundering investigation into the transfer of billions on behalf of clients in Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria.
Britain’s biggest bank is at the centre of a HMRC investigation after allegations that criminals opened offshore accounts for money laundering purposes in the bank’s Jersey operation.
Lord Stephen Green, the UK trade minister who ran HSBC when the bank facilitated criminal money laundering, faces calls to reveal what he knew and when.
A “pervasively polluted” culture allowed HSBC to be used by clients in Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Syria, to launder dirty money around the world, says a US senate committee report.