2008 Liechtenstein tax affair

When

14 Feb 2008

Kind

Event

Coordinates

47.15° N, 9.55° E

Placed at the country it links, Liechtenstein.

The home and office of Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO of Deutsche Post, is searched by police investigating tax evasion. Zumwinkel resigns on the following day. The raid on Zumwinkel is the first after it became known to the government that billions of euros have been diverted into a bank in Liechtenstein by around 900 wealthy Germans.

Series of tax investigations in numerous countries

The 2008 Liechtenstein tax affair was a series of tax investigations in numerous countries whose governments suspected that some of their citizens may have evaded tax obligations by using banks and trusts in Liechtenstein; the affair broke open with the biggest complex of investigations ever initiated for tax evasion in Germany.

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