A former UBS banker was indicted today on a charge that he helped U.S. clients evade taxes through accounts at UBS and a regional Swiss bank.
The indictment says the banker, Martin Lack, discouraged at least nine U.S. customer from joining an Internal Revenue Service amnesty program offered to those who were hiding assets overseas. He also offered to provide his customers with falsified bank documents to conceal the source of the funds in their undeclared bank accounts, according to the indictment.
Lack, a Swiss resident, is accused of conspiring with another UBS banker to encourage U.S. clients to move their undeclared UBS accounts to the smaller regional bank, which news reports identify as Basler Kantonalbank. The other UBS banker, Renzo Gadola, pleaded guilty last year to similar charges in federal court in Miami.
