https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swiss authorities said Tuesday that they would give French tax authorities the bank details of former international footballer Patrick Vieira, who is being probed by Paris. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140624/swiss-send-ex-football-stars-bank-data-to-paris Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:45:00 +0200 swiss-send-ex-football-stars-bank-data-to-paris The Geneva branch of HSBC Private Bank is suspected of helping almost 3,000 French citizens to defraud France’s tax department of more than €4 billion, according to a newspaper report. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140611/french-suspect-geneva-bank-of-aiding-tax-fraud Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:13:00 +0200 french-suspect-geneva-bank-of-aiding-tax-fraud A former banker who threatened to blow the lid on a list of French politicians and "big names" with Swiss bank accounts fabricated the entire story, a Swiss business newspaper reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130816/swiss-banker-lied-over-french-accounts-report Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:55:53 +0200 swiss-banker-lied-over-french-accounts-report French tax agents regularly travel to Switzerland without authorization from Swiss officials to investigate French citizens suspected of tax evasion, a Swiss newspaper says. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121111/french-tax-agents-make-illegal-swiss-probes-report Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:17:00 +0100 french-tax-agents-make-illegal-swiss-probes-report