comex risk double tax refunds. ever came up. in the trial against sarah xen the parties contradicted each other. but miller's lawyer got some unexpected help from inside the bank. a long time employee passed on internal documents that helped a cut side win the case for miller. the sara zene informant wants to stay anonymous but is willing to talk to us about what he witnessed at the bank. i saw that the bank wanted to sell and had already sold a financial product clearly designed to defraud german tanks authorities when customers bought the product they were told that what they were buying was completely on the level and legal according to the informant the product originated with mr comics himself on a burger confronted with the accusations told us by email that he only advised a few clients regarding comex and no banks but the former sarah xen employee says otherwise he claims he tried to raise the alarm about burger numerous times at one point i was told very clearly that my reservations were misplaced that dr baer go was an

after the phone call from switzerland all official him and his colleagues were still investigating comex evaluating mountains of confidential documents by the end of march they finally had enough evidence they went public with the scandal their focus was on multi-millionaire celebrities and influential swiss banks from knew what he was getting into but what happened next was a complete surprise. i learned weeks or months later that they'd taken a different kind of action the swiss private banks are as enough which was involved in this come ex deal at the expense of the german treasury filed a complaint against me among others. or and desiring public. his office started an investigation against me i think the public prosecutor didn't take action against the bank and it will be investors they took action against the person who made the fraud public namely me as a journalist. the allegation was that shrum had incited bank employees to hand over confidential information according to the media the swiss private bank sara zene was one of the players in the comics scandal among the clients was

as i in fact go back put simply comex shares were pushed back and forth between different investors so quickly the tax authorities no longer knew who actually owns them as a result. the capital gains tax was refunded several times even though it was only paid once so the stage we funded more in taxes than it had collected and the investors. paid in the 1st place i think. paying tax on their income filing their tax return but then getting several tax rebates that's the principle behind comics to make sure nobody caught wind of their scheme the alleged perpetrators used skillfully arranged networks how exactly back to the stock market again. importantly trade involve several traders but only one share right now person has it. then along comes person b. they buy a share of the same company very shortly before the x. date the cutoff date for dividends but person b. doesn't buy the share from the company itself but from person c. . person c. doesn't even own the shares at this point this is called a short sale and it's completely legal now comes the day of the dividend payout person gets th

confronted with the accusations berger told us by email that he only advised a few clients regarding comex and no banks but the former sarah zina employee says otherwise he claims he tried to raise the alarm about berger numerous times at one point i was told very clearly that my reservations were misplaced that dr bell go was an expert in german tax law my boss told me several times that baerga had excellent networks in germany right up to the highest levels of government in berlin i was told he knew what he was doing and that we should just trust him. and it wasn't just happening in switzerland some large german financial institutions were also caught up in the scandal none of them were willing to answer our questions about comics on camera but we did get some written responses. the frankfurt public prosecutor's office is investigating in connection with shared transactions of comets found and the former dressed in our band performed over the dividend record date so-called come x. transactions come out sponsors cooperating fully with the authorities. bank has cooperated and continues to

the comex of the play is the death of michelle garber chops wife from cancer and the turning point of his career the last chapter is called gorbachev and solitude the theater may be filled with enthusiastic applause but in real life things quickly became quite lonely around michelle you cover chaff and his dream of a better freer russia to. here in europe sexism and advertisement isn't just a social issue it's also political last year the u.k. banned ads featuring any gender stereotypes the city of paris has its own laws against sexes out several german cities are behind the changes here in germany is the protest organization pink stinks. do we really still have to talk about this sexism in advertising about the fact that women are objectified to sell everything from pizza to beer to cars to whatever one person who is battling the way women are represented in the advertising is gender researcher dr steve. how does i ask myself how it's possible that we're allowed to have the advertising that so backwards in terms of gender while the state of spending money to bridge the wage gap betwe

confronted with the accusations berger told us by email that he only advised a few clients regarding comex and no banks but the former sara xen employee says otherwise he claims he tried to raise the alarm about burger numerous times. at one point i was told very clearly that my reservations were misplaced that dr baer go was an expert in german tax law my boss told me several times that baerga had excellent networks in germany right up to the highest levels of government in berlin i was told he knew what he was doing and that we should just trust him. and it wasn't just happening in switzerland some large german financial institutions were also caught up in the scandal none of them more willing to answer our questions about comics on camera but we did get some written responses. the frankfurt public prosecutor's office is investigating in connection with shared transactions of comet's bank and the former dress that our bank performed over the dividend record date so-called come x. transactions coming out sponsors cooperating fully with the authorities. has cooperated and continues to coop

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