PARIS: UBS Group AG goes on trial here today accused of encouraging rich clients to stash cash overseas to evade French taxes by deploying tactics “worthy of James Bond.”
The Zurich-based lender dispatched bankers across the border to seek out new clients even though they lacked the paperwork – a banking licence or European passport – to offer such services in France, the lead investigator wrote in the indictment ahead of the trial.
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