Geneva - Swiss prosecutors opened an investigation on alleged criminal money laundering after a U.S. investor said that officers used Russian taxation of Swiss bank accounts to engage in fraud.
The probe was launched on 7 March after Reporting Laundering Office the Switzerland received a complaint from a law firm for the Hermitage London Capital Management, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said Friday.
Hermitage claims the husband of a former bank accounts Moscow official tax used to Credit Switzerland to $ million purchases after it has approved a fraudulent Declaration of $ 230 million for three of the subsidiaries of the Hermitage. Their documents earlier property had been seized by officials at the Ministry of the Interior of the Russia, who used to save their own people as owners and directors before the filing of fraudulent tax claim, according to William Browder, CEO of the Hermitagean investment company.
A spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office refused Friday to confirm if all Swiss accounts had been frozen or provide other details on the case, citing the investigation.
Officials at Embassy of Russia in the Swiss capital of Bern could not be reached for comment Friday, but the Kremlin has already stated that officials of the Ministry of the Interior have been deceived by foreigners.
Browder, who was prohibited from Russia in 2005 for unspecified reasons, leads a campaign against corruption in Russia for years. He accused the Russian authorities to be responsible for the death of his lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in prison in 2009, after having been accused of tax fraud related to the fraud of the Hermitage.
The American investor said Hermitage has compiled extensive evidence that links the property expensive purchases through Swiss bank accounts to Olga Stepanova, who headed the Moscow district, Office No. 28 to January tax.
"We have a very detailed forensic investigation where we have learned that Olga Stepanova, her husband, had a number of accounts of the Credit Switzerland in Zurich" said Browder.
Copies of the statements of account of Bank and property registration documents provided to the Associated Press show Stepanova husband, an employee of a company for the construction of small, money wired through accounts of Credit Switzerland to build a $ 8 million luxury home West of Moscow and buy a holiday home in properties in Montenegro and several million dollars on the Palm Jumeriah to Dubai in the name of his 85 year old mother.
Credit Switzerland said that he could not comment on "" any customer relationship potential."" But a spokesman said that the Bank would take allegations of possible wrongdoing seriously.
"Credit Switzerland is consistent with all relevant laws and regulations including those relating to the fight against money laundering," said Alex Biscaro. "We are confident that we have a framework of sound control with internal policies."
Magnitsky died of pancreatitis who has been left untreated in Russian custody. The case is examined as a barometer of the commitment of the Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to the rule of law.
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