— -- A California businessman Friday became the fourth person charged with using an offshore account at Swiss banking giant UBS to hide funds from the IRS as federal prosecutors kept up pressure ...

A federal investigation into UBS concerning its sale of offshore private banking services to wealthy Americans is concentrating on senior and midlevel executives and bankers, and could result in one ...

If not for banker Bradley Birkenfeld, "a massive tax fraud scheme" by Switzerland's UBS bank to hide the assets of wealthy Americans from U.S. tax collectors would never have been uncovered, ...

WASHINGTON — Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the U.S. government of taxes owed by ...

Justice Department prosecutors asked a federal judge Tuesday to cut a potential five-year prison sentence in half for a diamond-smuggling banker who exposed a vast scheme by Switzerland's UBS bank to ...

BERNE/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Switzerland has agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS to U.S. authorities in a tax dispute settlement that pierces Swiss banking ...

BERNE/WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Switzerland has agreed to reveal the names of about 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS AG to U.S. authorities in a tax dispute settlement that pierces Swiss ...

The U.S. government has chipped new holes in the secrecy of Swiss bank accounts, obtaining the names of American clients of the banking giant UBS as part of an investigation into the use of foreign ...

It’s not just the U.S. government that wants to get its hands on the list of Americans who hold secretive Swiss bank accounts. Ex-wives, creditors and former business partners are also salivating over ...

A Swiss court has held that the Swiss bank UBS does not have to hand over to the IRS confidential data on 26 accounts under a settlement agreement between the United States and Switzerland negotiated ...

Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the U.S. government of taxes owed by thousands of ...

Swiss bank UBS AG has been fined 8 million pounds ($13.3 million) for management failures which allowed employees to make unauthorized trades with customers' accounts, Britain's financial regulator ...