Jan 4 2012 – Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Charles R. Pine, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division (“IRS-CID”), announced the indictmenttoday of three Swiss bankers, MICHAEL BERLINKA, URS FREI, and ROGER KELLER, for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide more than $1.2 billion in assets from the IRS.
These assets were hidden in undeclared accounts of U.S. taxpayers at the Swissbank (“Swiss Bank A”) where BERLINKA, FREI, and KELLER worked as client advisers. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
