has Just brought in time, a former UBS employee before the Swiss judiciary. The 45-year-old René S. the main role in a Thriller about espionage, huge sums of black money and betrayal. The Federal criminal court has sentenced on Monday because of economic news service of a sentence of imprisonment of 40 months. At the same time the Ex-Banker received a conditional cash penalty of 270 days in sets of 50 francs for money laundering and illegal ammunition possession.
During the criminal proceedings s. from the Fricktal moved across the Rhine into southern Germany. His family he left behind in Switzerland. Prison threatens the native of Basel, he should return home.
In the justification of the verdict yesterday, the backgrounds of the Case came only sporadically. The trial chamber focused on the actual fact. Due to overwhelming circumstantial evidence, she looks at it as proved, that the p. copied in front of an internal exchange in the UBS in Basel in the summer of 2010, quickly secret data on German owners of foundations. Two years later, the big Bank free the long-term employees. On René S. took his treasure to money. He sold the stole to UBS of the information to the German tax authorities. Be proceeds: sure, over 1 Million Euro.
raids in the UBS
Soon it came to house searches in dozens of German UBS clients. Many were convicted as a tax fraudster. The German government took billion. One of the first Affected was Germany’s most famous secret agent: the legendary Werner Mauss. The 78-Year-old admitted through a lawyer, fiscal offences, in the millions, but recanted later, the confession. In Switzerland, the UBS went thief internally to the Data. René S. quickly became a suspect. IT-tests revealed that he had queried the Foundation data many of the wealthy Germans, with whom he had professionally to do little to nothing. The obtained corresponded almost exactly to the level of knowledge of the German tax police in the raids. For UBS, it was clear that p must be the traitor. The Bank showed him.
The Federal Prosecutor’s office opened a case. However much you had in Hand. The Federal criminal police asked the news service of the Federal government for help. And the secret service turned on Daniel Moser, busted so soon, and against the will of the most well-known Swiss spy. Moser was able to deliver to René S. no relevant information. For the Federal intelligence service and Federal criminal police, he procured but personnel data to those tax investigators from North Rhine-Westphalia, the so-called tax CDs from banks bought up. He also rolled up with his source leader plans, a mole in the German fiscal authorities to plant.
As Moser did this, were the Swiss prosecutors René S. on the heels. With observations they had found that the Ex-UBSler in the trunk of the BMW coupe 325i, his mother was hiding something. In Secret, they searched the car and found on a piece of paper with a number of the German Bank in Palma de Mallorca. Further investigation revealed that René S. had bought on the Spanish island shortly before that, an Apartment with more than 1 Million Euro, calculated from a small Bank in North Rhine-Westphalia came.
In September 2013, it came with René S. in Fricktal-to-house searches. The Suspect tried to destroy the SIM card of his mobile phones. He said he did so to prevent his wife of an extramarital love affair learn. The SIM data that could be reconstructed, revealed, however, only contacts to Germany, and to a notary in Mallorca. Of a Romance is not the slightest trace.
Half-year in custody
René S. best, any debt of a ride anyway. In July 2016 he has been accused of a serious economic intelligence service and other charges. But even before him, the two agents should come before the court, which he had brought, directly and indirectly, in trouble: Werner Mauss was convicted of tax offences in Bochum, Germany, to two years in prison. However, the Federal court set aside the judgment recently, which is why the case is being rolled up.
Daniel Moser was arrested in April 2017 in Frankfurt am Main and a half years in custody. The tip that led to the arrest, had given to Werner Mauss. Moser was sentenced as a Swiss Agent in Germany to a conditional sentence of imprisonment of 22 months.
René S. moved, meanwhile, from his new home in Lörrach due to health problems, a Swiss disability pension. With a psychiatric report, which he demanded, he hesitated in his main trial that he then remained in the beginning of January unexcused. In the South of Germany in exile, René S. is likely to remain of an extradition spared. Germany has done so far, Switzerland has no legal aid, when it came to tax CDs.
is not, But once the guilty verdict by René S. legally. The ruling Monday is the first of the new appeals chamber of the Federal criminal court may be drawn. The office of the attorney General will do this. Your state protection-in-chief Carlo Bulletti was very satisfied with the punishment. The defender did not want to comment.
The case forms of cases, the completion of a series of Bank secrecy. Five Ex-bankers were convicted since 2011, because of data sales to France and Germany for imprisonment of between two and five years.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 22.01.2019, 07:49 PM
