Two Swiss Advisers Helped Clients Evade Taxes, U.S. Says
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Two Swiss men who acted as “full service tax evasion advisers” helped U.S. clients hide hundreds of millions of dollars from tax authorities, while delivering cash in hotels and through a child courier, prosecutors said.
Hans Thomann and Josef Beck, who worked as independent financial advisers, conspired to help Americans defraud the Internal Revenue Service and ran unlicensed businesses that moved cash for clients, according to charges filed yesterday in federal court in Manhattan.