Credit Suisse violated a 2014 plea deal with the US government for the Swiss bank’s role in helping wealthy Americans evade tax, according to an investigation by the Senate finance committee.
The two-year probe by the committee claimed the bank — which is being taken over by rival UBS — failed to disclose nearly $100mn in secret offshore accounts belonging to a single family of US taxpayers.
“At the centre of this investigation are greedy Swiss bankers and catnapping government regulators, and the result appears to be a massive, ongoing conspiracy to help ultra-wealthy US citizens to evade taxes and rip off their fellow Americans,” said Senator Ron Wyden, who chairs the committee.