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Top 10: the stories that grabbed your attention in 2015
Secret files in Swiss banks, escaping from Google’s reach, a website that tells your age, who owes the most and, of course, who is still the richest. These are the articles on ‘The Irish Times’ website that were the most read in the past year
Ruairí McKiernan: Happy birthday Chelsea Manning and thank you
What Manning did was to help shine a light on how wars like that in Iraq help fuel fundamentalism
HSBC whistleblower Hervé Falciani given five-year sentence
Former employee leaked information on bank’s clients and their tax situation
HSBC to pay 40m Swiss francs to settle money laundering case
Swiss authorities raided bank’s offices after media leaks
HSBC’s Geneva bank ‘no longer a place to hide untaxed assets’
Switzerland CEO Franco Morra says mentality has changed a lot
Nina Ricci heir gets jail sentence for tax evasion in France
Case seen as precedent for up to 50 other cases of alleged tax fraud involving HSBC
France begins criminal investigation of HSBC Holdings
Lender ordered to post €1bn bail over Swiss private arm allegations
Swiss refused request for help to pursue HSBC prosecutions
Revenue sought assistance to bring some of those named in leaked bank files before Irish courts
New UK law could see bankers prosecuted for aiding tax evasion
Deal with France to allow UK use leaked HSBC files to pursue financial advisers
Cases ‘should have been taken’ against tax evasion at HSBC
Whistle-blower says he sent British authorities information about bank’s clients in 2008
UK revenue chief denies failure to act against tax-dodging clients of HSBC
Lin Homer says data received about 3,600 UK individuals was ‘incomplete’ and ‘dirty’
Former senior executives at HSBC later went on to take up positions in Ireland
Data on thousands of accounts were taken from Geneva-based bank
Irish names in HSBC bank’s secret files
International clients include those involved in arms trade and blood diamonds
HSBC’s Swiss deposits drop by almost half
Bank comes close to admitting its Swiss branch was used to facilitate tax evasion and money laundering, and says its deposits have dropped to $68bn since it initiated project to improve standards
Swiss leaks: Geneva bank assured client that Revenue would not be given details
Businessman John Cashell was worried that his account data would make it to Ireland
Swiss leaks: Mail not sent to HSBC account holder Aidan O’Brien
Racehorse trainer says matter is now resolved and company fully tax-compliant
Revenue Commissioners advised not to pursue HSBC tax case
Evidence was deemed insufficient for criminal charges against bank, says ex-tax chairman
Banking giant HSBC sheltered cash linked to dictators and arms dealers
Team of journalists from 45 countries unearths secret bank accounts maintained for criminals, traffickers, tax dodgers, politicians and celebrities
HSBC statement in full
‘We have taken significant steps over the past several years to implement reforms and exit clients who did not meet strict new HSBC standards’
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