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fill out required tax forms.
The Justice Department's move comes after Bradley Birkenfeld, a former UBS employee, pleaded
guilty June 19 to conspiring to defraud the IRS by helping ... bank's clients avoid U.S. tax reporting
requirements.
Birkenfeld said in a court statement that UBS has about $20 billion in assets in "undeclared" accounts
for U.S. taxpayers.
UBS employees ... then filled out IRS forms that falsely claimed the
entities owned the accounts, Birkenfeld said.
"Offshore accounts harbor billions of dollars, and people should take notice that the secrecy
surrounding
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break in its investigation.
penalties, and more importantly, criminal penalties. Swiss banker Bradley Birkenfeld informed the US.
In July 2003, the IRS reported that this initiative government, through his attorneys ... entitle him to a share of the billions of unreported Taxes 2009). At Mr. Birkenfeld's sentencing, the US.
offshore income hidden by UBS. However, Birken- prosecutor admitted that "without ... Birkenfeld
feld had engaged in criminal conduct himself and walking into die door of the DOJ in the summer
tried to obtain immunity from prosecution from
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