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UBS Settles Long-Running French Tax Case for $985 Million
UBS will pay €730 million in fines and €105 million in damages after being found guilty of tax fraud and illegal banking activities involving wealthy French clients, authorities said.
- UBS will pay €835 million to settle a French legal case over taxes, according to UBS and French authorities on September 23.
- The settlement includes a €730 million fine and €105 million in damages, significantly lower than the original €4.5 billion penalty from 2019.
- The French Supreme Court confirmed UBS's guilt for unlawful client solicitation and money laundering between 2004 and 2012, according to UBS.
- UBS's former French unit was found guilty of harassing whistle-blowers reporting tax dodging efforts.
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The banking giant was sentenced on Tuesday to a fine of 730 million euros and 105 million euros in damages to the French state.
Swiss bank UBS has agreed to a settlement of 835 million euros with French authorities to end a 14-year legal battle over tax fraud. It will pay a fine of 730 million euros and a total of 105 million euros in damages, the bank said today, according to the French news agency AFP.
The Swiss bank has finally resolved an old 2019 dispute concerning the illegal marketing of wealthy customers and the laundering of tax fraud.
·Paris, France
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