Swiss bank secrecy was dealt a severe setback by the revelations made by ex-UBS banker Bradley Charles Birkenfeld, who blew the whistle on UBS providing Americans with vehicles to hide up US$20 billion in assets to avoid taxes.
Tax evasion is illegal in Singapore; however, according to an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development official, Singaporean authorities tend to cooperate with other countries' tax authorities only when evasion of Singaporean taxes is involved.
The Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) handed in a report to the police in May 2012 about their suspicions that Jonsson and two others had committed serious tax crimes.
However, by the 1970s many clubs were already run like businesses and recruited players through a contract of employment, paying their wages secretly and often evading taxes.
Tax evasion increased dramatically, the tax code was overly complicated, the IRS’s budget was too small, and its computers were overworked and out of date.
Tax evasion in Ireland, while a common problem historically, is now not as widespread.
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Larson is being investigated by Norwegian authorities over an alleged multi-million kroner tax evasion.
In 1984 Fairfax newspaper The National Times published leaked extracts of the Commission's draft report which implicated a prominent Australian businessman codenamed the "Goanna" in tax evasion and organised crime, including drug trafficking, pornography, and murder.
Robert is best known as co-author of "Révélation$", a book published by Les Arènes on 1 March 2001, which accused Cedel, later Clearstream, of a number of illegal financial activities, such as aiding and abetting money laundering, tax evasion et cetera.
In 1933, Horan was accused by former Illinois Attorney General Edward J. Brundage of consorting with gangster Al Capone and seeking to improperly influence James H. Wilkerson, the judge overseeing Capone's 1931 tax evasion trial.
In 2004, George Schussel was charged by the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts with conspiracy and tax evasion.
Stacher continued running Mafia gambling operations until 1964, when Federal authorities arrested him for tax evasion.
During his congressional career, Rodino also was one of the managers of the impeachment hearings of a pair of federal judges: Nevada judge Harry Claiborne in 1986 (for tax evasion) and Florida judge (and future congressman) Alcee Hastings in 1988 (for perjury).
Also, there were cases of tax evasion, bribery and partisan distribution of ration stamps to purchase passenger vehicles (stamps to purchase the coveted Fiat 126, manufactured at Bielsko-Biała’s Fabryka Samochodów Małolitrażowych, almost exclusively were handed to Party officials.
The newspaper uncovered many political scandals, including a former member of the Legislative Council not reporting conflict of interest in 2000, a former Financial Secretary Antony Leung for tax evasion on a Lexus LS 430 which saved him HK$50,000 (USD $6,400), and many others, leading to the convictions or forced resignations of those individuals.
Benny served time in Leavenworth Penitentiary from 1953 to 1957 for tax evasion.
Mitchell remained chairman until 1933, when he was arrested and indicted for tax evasion by then Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Dewey.
The federal government charged Walsh not with bootlegging but with tax evasion, regarding $350,000 in back taxes and penalties owed the Internal Revenue Service, although Walsh and authorities agreed on a lesser sum.
In April 2013, as part of the Offshore leaks tax evasion scandal, financial records were released that showed that Denise Rich in April 2006 had USD 144 million protected from scrutiny by the Cook Islands in the South Pacific in the form of a trust including a Learjet 60 and a a 157-foot yacht called the "Lady Joy".
9 May 2001 op-ed in Le Monde, signed with Renaud van Ruymbeke, Bernard Bertossa and other European magistrates or attorneys-general, titled "The black boxes of financial globalization", about the Clearstream scandal (Clearstream has been qualified as a "bank of banks" and accused of being a major platform of global money laundering and tax evasion)
After the revelations of whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld in 2007, UBS—which was then the largest bank in the world—was caught red-handed by the United States government offering tax evasion strategies, sending undercover bankers with encrypted computers to the United States.
They were investigating tax evasion claims raised by government authorities in Metz.
In 2005, BusinessWeek referred to Glasenberg as a key figure in the secretive oil-trading inner circle of Marc Rich, a billionaire commodities trader charged with tax evasion and illegal deals with Iran and later pardoned by US President, Bill Clinton.
Over the course of his career as a judge, Hoffman presided over numerous important cases, including a tax evasion case against Tony Accardo, an obscenity case against Lenny Bruce, a deportation suit against alleged Nazi war criminal Frank Walus, and several desegregation suits.
In July 2009 Robert Powell pled guilty to failing to report a felony and being an accessory to tax evasion conspiracy in connection with $770,000 in kickbacks he paid to Ciavarella and Conahan in exchange for facilitating the development of his facilities.
Kohn personally has represented whistleblowers in the O. J. Simpson murder case, the World Trade Center bombing cases, the Oklahoma City bombing case, the Linda Tripp-Privacy Act case, and the Bradley Birkenfeld-UBS AG tax evasion case.
Ironically, the DOJ decided to charge Birkenfeld with a felony count of conspiring to abet tax evasion by one of his clients, Igor Olenicoff.
In his 1963 autobiography, Hallinan claimed that he was prosecuted by the IRS for his political views, and that the government did not differentiate between tax avoidance (legal) and tax evasion.
Hodges presided over the 2008 trial of celebrity actor Wesley Snipes for failure to file personal income tax returns (Not to be confused with tax evasion).