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2 Feb 2010, 2:00 am
German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to purchase a list of 1,500 German tax avoiders hiding money in secret bank accounts in Switzerland from an IT specialist who once worked at HSBC in Geneva (who allegdely is seeking $3.5m (£2.1m) for the list of names. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 11:55 pm
I took the EU member states, plus USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, Iceland, Japan and South Korea. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 7:58 pm
Husband reportedly owns real estate … in Germany and Canada … and the US and Switzerland. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 2:18 am
According to The Telegraph Switzerland will hold a referendum next month on whether domesticated animals should have the right to be represented by lawyers in court. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 9:55 am
• Leaders attending the recent World Economic Forum in Switzerland were in general agreement that there has been a huge breakdown in the public’s trust in government, financial institutions and big business. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 6:15 am
Circuit’s recent rejection of the premise that international humanitarian law constrains the government’s authority under the AUMF to detain, a position even the government has not taken).In other brief GTMO news: (1) a panel of U.S. military judges heard the first direct appeals of detainees, Ali al-Bahlul and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who were convicted in military commissions under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and (2) four more detainees were sent to Europe--3 to Slovakia and 1 to… [read post]
30 Jan 2010, 3:41 pm
The fact pattern was a law professor's delight: during the installation, Mass Moca's staff (being directed by emails from Switzerland, allegedly made aesthetic decisions against the artist's will, made "compromises" he did not agree to, covered the work in tarps (allegedly inviting sneek peeks) and held an exhibition next door, which purportedly was orchestrated to subject the artist to ridicule (a local paper referred to the art as… [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 1:46 pm
Meyenhofer-Peters holds a Masters of Law, magna cum laude, from the University of Fribourg Law School in Switzerland and is a qualified and experienced Swiss lawyer who has also recently completed a second Masters of Laws degree from the University of Chicago Law School. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 1:36 pm
Basically, this means that 14,700 people walked away without prosecution under the IRS amnesty program, the head of entire illegal UBS program Martin Liechti was allowed to return to Switzerland without prosecution, the 4,450 tax cheats are likely to escape prosecution, and Bradley Birkenfeld (the person responsible for blowing the whistle and ending the illegal UBS program) is still the only banker sitting in prison. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 11:30 am
The release of the report was timed to coincide with the World Economic Forum being held through the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, and follows on the heels of a serious and coordinated cyberattack conducted against Google, Adobe and other U.S. companies in the finance, technology and defense industries. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 10:41 am
According to the New York Times, at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on world leaders to embrace “a more moral form of financial capitalism. [read post]
28 Jan 2010, 6:12 am
Speaking at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting [official website] in Davos, Switzerland, Sarkozy called the current financial malaise a "crisis of globalization. [read post]
WELL, I PREDICTED THE "UNGOVERNABLE AMERICA" MEME, but Arnold Kling has some deeper thoughts. "The …
27 Jan 2010, 7:53 pm
And yet we have a central government attempting to do for 300 million people what governments in places like Singapore, Hong Kong, Denmark, and Switzerland do for many fewer people. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 4:00 pm
Gallen, Switzerland, wrote a very interesting article: 'Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights in Weak Appropriability Regimes, The Case of de Facto Protection Strategies in China'.Appropriability are "the environmental factors that govern an innovator's ability to capture profits generated by an innovation". [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 4:00 am
The detainee, whose identity will not be disclosed in order to facilitate his transition into life in Switzerland, was unanimously approved for transfer. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 6:28 pm
With the announcement today of the return of a Uzbek Guantanamo Bay detainee to Switzerland, the population at Gitmo is now down to 192. [read post]
26 Jan 2010, 7:56 am
Since 2006, a string of listed Lloyd's holding companies have left the UK: Omega, Hiscox, Kiln and Hardy moved to Bermuda, Brit to the Netherlands and Beazley has moved its incorporation to Jersey but its tax residence to Ireland.Meanwhile, ACE moved its holding company from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland in 2008, while XL is moving its holding company from the Cayman Islands to Ireland. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 10:24 pm
WebCPA reports that Switzerland's Federal Administrative Court has ruled that the agreement between Switzerland and the US requiring UBS to disclose the names of more than 4,000 American taxpayer investors violates Swiss bank secrecy laws: The ruling last Friday on 26 sets of bank accounts threatens a deal that the Swiss and U.S. governments hammered out last August after [...] [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 10:21 pm
The official agenda for the 7th round of negotiations in Guadalajara, Mexico Statement on 6th round of negotiations in Seoul, Korea Statement on 5th round of negotiations in Rabat, Morocco Statement on 4th round of negotiations in Paris, France Statement on 3rd round of negotiations in Tokyo, Japan Statement on 2nd round of negotiations in Washington, DC Statement on 1st round of negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - Summary of Key… [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 6:33 am
But in the ruling Friday, the panel said that under Swiss law, the failure to file a W-9 form wasn't considered fraud in Switzerland, as it would be in the U.S. [read post]
