March 23, 2011 - Death of Hans J. Baer announced
One of Switzerland's most famous bankers, Hans J. Baer, has died aged 83 after a long illness, the Julius Baer Group announced on Tuesday.
March 19, 2011 - Baer calls for end to US/Swiss bank tax row -paper
"It is surprising to see the U.S. escalation against the Swiss financial centre. Such hostility is not diplomatically tolerable with a friendly country," Baer was quoted as saying in in an interview published on Saturday.
March 19, 2011 - Baer calls for end to US/Swiss bank tax row -paper
"It is surprising to see the U.S. escalation against the Swiss financial centre. Such hostility is not diplomatically tolerable with a friendly country," Baer was quoted as saying in in an interview published on Saturday.
March 10, 2011- US tax probe tightens noose on Swiss banks
Swiss banks are coming under increasing pressure in the United States as a second wave of arrests and indictments implicated Credit Suisse in tax evasion.
March 4, 2011 - Banks haven't gotten the tax fraud message: prosecutor
U.S. authorities will devote "considerable" resources to go after the banks, the bankers, "and most importantly the clients," Downing said.
February 18, 2011 - Rudolf Elmer, Swiss WikiLeaks banker, loses appeal
Rudolf Elmer, the former Bank Julius Baer employee who famously appeared with Julian Assange of WikiLeaks two days before his trial in Zurich for theft and threatening his former employer, has had one of his appeals turned down, his lawyer has told Swiss media in a press release.
February 16, 2011 - Swiss ex-banker custody appeal turned down-lawyer
Swiss ex-banker turned whistleblower Rudolph Elmer has lost his appeal against a court ruling remanding him in prison over possible breaches of Swiss banking secrecy, a lawyer representing Elmer said on Wednesday.
Feb 14, 2011 - IRS Asks Julius Baer Clients in U.S. for Information, NZZ Sa
Julius Baer is not aware of any investigation, Jan Vonder Muehll, a spokesman for the bank, told Bloomberg News.
Feb 14, 2011 - WikiLeaks list is coming
WikiLeaks has announced that it has a trove of documents from the Swiss bank Julius Baer that it could release in couple weeks after scrutinizing them.
February 9, 2011 - IRS Sets Offshore Amnesty, Part II .
The Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday announced a new limited amnesty for U.S. taxpayers with secret foreign accounts that will allow them to pay penalties and avoid jail time.
February 4, 2011 - Julius Baer Data Used by WikiLeaks for Assault on Bank S
“We have no reason to believe that Elmer has anything new,” according to Baer spokesman Jan Vonder Muehll. Boris Collardi, who became chief executive officer in May 2009, told Handelszeitung in September that since his arrival, “our motto is that we only accept taxed money.”
February 4, 2011 - Julius Baer Data Used by WikiLeaks for Assault on Bank S
“We have no reason to believe that Elmer has anything new,” according to Baer spokesman Jan Vonder Muehll. Boris Collardi, who became chief executive officer in May 2009, told Handelszeitung in September that since his arrival, “our motto is that we only accept taxed money.”
February 1, 2011 - Wikipedia Rudolf Elmer
He came to prominence as a whistleblower in 2008 when he gave secret documents to WikiLeaks detailing the activities of Julius Bär in the Cayman Islands and alleged tax evasion.[4] Before that, he was arrested in 2005 for 30 days. He was convicted in Switzerland in January 2011 and rearrested immediately after for having distributed illegally obtained data to WikiLeaks early in January 2011.
January 30, 2011 - Offshore banks must adapt or die in WikiLeaks era
If the US government can’t stop WikiLeaks from publishing sensitive military information, small nations won’t be able to prevent the release of this kind of data. There will always be another whistleblower - and you can’t prosecute them all.
January 27, 2011 - PayPal Kills Wikileaks' Account
WikiLeaks had violated its policy, PayPal contends in a blog, "which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity."