The US authorities brought a charge against 3 more bankers from Switzerland accusing them of helping the American citizens to evade taxes by means of hiding the assets on secret accounts, - Bloomberg informs.
Among the charged bankers there was a former director of Credit Suisse North America division Markus Walder and the former top-manager at Credit Suisse Andreas Bachmann. Reuters specifies that two more accused were the ex-manager at Credit Suisse, Susanne D. Ruegg Meier and the founder of undisclosed Swiss trust company, which was cooperating with the bank, Josef Dorig.
In February present year the US authorities brought in a similar indictment to 4 ex- and current employees of Credit Suisse: Marco Adami, Emanuel Agustoni, Michele Bergantino and Roger Schaerer. Investigation of the bank, the second largest one in Switzerland, was started in mid July.
Credit Suisse will become the second bank of Switzerland to run proceedings with the US authorities. Since 2008 the American side was inquiring into UBS bank activity suspecting that the organization helped the US clients to evade taxes through the off-shore accounts. Finally, the UBS had to pass the data to the United States on more than 4 thousands of its American clients and pay a multi-million penalty.
