Twenty three people with links to the Dominican Republic, some of whom have Dominican nationality, appear on a list of holders of Swiss bank accounts worth a total of US$34.3 million and are clients of HSBC in Switzerland, supposedly to evade taxes or for laundering money. The largest sum of money deposited by an account holder with a Dominican Connection has US$8 million.
The International Investigative Journalists Consortium (ICIJ), which released the list, stated that the Dominican Republic is number 127 on the list of countries with the largest sums of money deposited.
The full Falciani list is said to include personalities such as Formula One driver, Fernando Alonso, former Banco Santander president Emilio Botin and King Abdullah II of Jordan.
The list also includes Arturo del Tiempo, whose real estate investments in the country received support from Leonel Fernandez government, only to be subsequently linked to drug trafficking. According to an online media report from the Canary Islands, “Arturo del Tiempo Marques who has received a seven year jail sentence in Spain for drug trafficking with 1,200 kilos of cocaine controlled 19 accounts at the HSBC with more than US$3 million.”
Most of the accounts the ICIJ uncovered were set up from 1988 to 2007 and HSBC has confirmed that there was a lack of control in the past.
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