Ex-UBS employee to have sold Bank data to Germany

Long faces were seen on Monday morning at 10.40 am in the Federal criminal court in Bellinzona. All parties were not present, only the main person showed up: René S., the former Basel UBS Banker. The forty-something should have been against the accusations of the economic intelligence service and violation of business and Bank secrecy to defend. But his place remained empty.

His defender Moritz, Gall was able to report to the court, only that he can reach his clients recently didn't. The judge then adjourned the trial.

For the case that the Accused would be skipping the trial, the chamber. Already on Tuesday it has set a new date. Then the negotiation will be carried out also in the absence of the family father, who now lives in the southern German city of Lörrach.

to have The Federal Prosecutor accuses René S. until 2012 as an employee of the UBS data of German Bank customers and tax authorities in Germany, sold scouted. The Accused is to Westphalia have possessed a Bank account in North Rhine-with a suspected offence proceeds of over one Million euros. The most populous state, had done in the sale of so-called tax CDs by Swiss financial institutions.

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Created: 07.01.2019, 17:16 PM