June 8th, 2010
The lower house of Swiss parliament on Tuesday
rejected a plan to turn over to the United States the names of thousands of UBS customers. The vote threatens the historic agreement reached last summer which aims to strike a heavy blow to banking secrecy in one of the most notorious offshore banking centers.
The agreement to turn over the roughly 4,450 names to U.S. officials was originally reached in a bilateral deal last summer, however a Swiss court has since ruled that the accord must be approved by the...
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