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Company: Wegelin & Co
Penalty: $74,000,000
Year: 2013
Date: January 3, 2013
Offense Group: financial offenses
Primary Offense: tax violations
Mega-Scandal: Assisting Tax Evasion
Violation Description: Wegelin & Co., a Swiss private bank, pleaded guilty for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide more than $1.2 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts and the income generated in these accounts from the Internal Revenue Service.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Justice Department Tax Division
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.