Friday, August 12, 2011

Boca Raton man arrested in UBS case - South Florida Business Journal:

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Steven Michael Rubinstein worked for an international company that helpsclientz built, buy and sell yachts. This is the first arrest of a majodr American clientof . According to court between 2001and Rubinstein, who owned UBS bank accounts in the name of purchased and sold securities wortj more than 4.5 million Swiss francs through his UBS He also is alleged to have deposited and sold more than $2 millionn in South African Krugerrands through his UBS Swiszs bank accounts. Rubinstein was chargedc with one criminal count of filing a false and fraudulenttax return. “Todahy is the first of the prosecutions resulting from that but it will not bethe last,” said R.
Alexander Acosta, U.S. attorney for the Southern Districtof Florida, in a news “It is our duty to those who pay their legal sharwe of taxes to ensure that others do not use offshorwe schemes to evade payment of their UBS has been under criminal investigation for helping wealth Americans evade taxes through secret offshore , UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank, agreed to immediatelyg provide the U.S.
government with the identities of, and account information for, some of its customerx who engagedin cross-border business with the bank in an efforr to evade having to pay The agreement was part of a deal the bank struck, putting an end to a high-profile investigation that alleged the bank helped rich Americanse avoid paying taxes by hiding their money in undeclaref accounts. Rubinstein was ordered held until a bond hearinyg set forApril 7.

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