The Swiss prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation into “money laundering” involving Swissquot, which is suspected of harboring part of the tax money smuggled by the Helen Group based on the Dubai Securities scandal, a magazine reported on Tuesday.
Helen, the vast network suspected of widespread tax evasion and money laundering, is being cracked down after its existence was revealed by Novell Observer a year ago.
According to the magazine and information from the newspaper La Tribune de Genève, the Swiss Attorney General’s Office has requested a freeze on all accounts of Helen’s open clients at Swissquote Bank, the “new generation”, the country’s first online bank, which seeks to be clean and free of old practices, and may exceed the amounts That has been frozen sixty million euros.
When the first articles on Dubai Securities appeared in September 2018, Swissquote wondered whether many of Helen’s clients would be hosted by a strange account of Blue Ocean International in Puerto Rico, which was set up in June 2016. by Frenchman Gilles R, at a time when Helen was the founder of the group of the Prince of the Belgian Henri de Crowe looking for a way to escape from the end of bank secrecy.
Because of the difficulty of diving into 200,000 tax laundering files, Swissquote said it was not clear to him. Between December 2016 and March 2017, Helen transferred 73 accounts to Blue Ocean International, which offers a range of financial services. However, he is not entitled to receive deposits, and as a result had to deposit the funds of the 73 accounts of Helen into one account in Swiscott.
After an internal audit that lasted several months, according to the magazine, Swissquote ended up exposing Blue Ocean International on suspicion of tax evasion.
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two months ago, I swear R generation aswitnessfrontSwiss Prosecutor Carolyn Babel Cassot thatBlue Ocean International has cut bridges with Helen group whenbroke out”Dubai leaves” scandal, but he admitted that he opened again in February 2019account forcustomer major company Helen .
Was it to evade future judicial investigations? Whether this is the case or not, Helen Group is paralyzed today by the backlog of cases, as its 200 clients can no longer access their accounts.
Although about 20 Helen agents – including the majority of the French – have chosen to regularize their status with tax authorities and file complaints in different jurisdictions in France, Switzerland and the UAE, the money remains uncollectible, the magazine says.
A Swiss lawyer representing a Frenchman who put two million euros in Helen said that “Helen officials have created a” financial beast “, where all the money was mixed.
“There is a double risk for our customers,” said French lawyer Chloe Belloy, who represents many Frenchmen. “Some people owe up to 20 million euros to French tax authorities. They will need to recover the money in Helen to pay. They have disappeared or been frozen by justice in structures created by Helen without the consent and knowledge of the clients. ”
The issue of the State in Belgium
, the magazine said that other complaintsbeen submitted recently to Abu Dhabi Commercial Court through Al Shamsi and Partners to recover funds fromlocal financial institution is “Literature Skjorta, and” managed customersobtainliftingbank secrecy to check their accounts”saysclose source File.
In Belgium, the Dubai Securities has become a state issue due to the disclosure of the activities of the Belgian prince Henry de Crow, nicknamed the “Black Prince” in his country of origin, because he has long been associated with one of the biggest tax fraud scandals in the country before being mitigated on appeal in 2015 .
The magazine said several Belgian lawmakers had asked the justice minister about the progress of cooperation with the French financial prosecutor who obtained the original Dubai Securities. The answer was that they would get copies of the papers once the IT expert could isolate all information about Belgium.
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