September 29, 2010 By Greg McArthur From Thursday's Globe and Mail Names given to Canada Revenue Agency The Canada Revenue Agency has received details on nearly 1,800 Swiss bank accounts registered to Canadians that were uncovered by French prosecutors during a probe into the clients of Europe's largest bank. For more than a year, investigators in the French Riviera city of Nice have been poring over a trove of banking records from the Geneva offices of HSBC. The documents, which were stolen by a former employee of HSBC and handed over to investigators, have sparked a diplomatic spat between France and Switzerland and waves of anxiety for HSBC clients who may have turned to the Alpine state to conceal their wealth. French investigators decided to examine the documents in case they revealed any criminal activity by French clients of the bank. To narrow down their search, they organized the accounts by nationality. The analysis revealed that Canadians held more accounts than ci...
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