Another UBS Related Enabler is Indicted (8/5/11)

Yesterday brought another UBS enabler indictment against Gian Gisler, a resident of Zurich, Switzerland.  Here is the USAO SDNY Press Release.  I haven't had time yet to analyze the details and will probably wait until I get a copy of the indictment (if anyone has it please email it to me).  In the meantime, I just cut and paste the part of the press release summarizing the indictment:

From the mid 1990s until late 2008, Gisler was a client adviser at UBS. From early 2009 until at least 2010, Gisler was a client adviser at two different asset management firms (Swiss Asset Management Firm No. 1 and Swiss Asset Management Firm No. 2). From the mid-1990s through at least 2010, Gisler allegedly conspired with various U.S. taxpayers and others to ensure that his clients could hide their Swiss bank accounts and the income they generated from the IRS.

In 2001, UBS, one of the Swiss banks at which Gisler helped his U.S. taxpayer clients hide accounts, voluntarily agreed with the IRS to collect information from account holders concerning the true owners of accounts at those banks. In furtherance of the conspiracy, Gisler, together with his U.S. taxpayer clients and others, used sham entities created under the laws of countries other than the United States to hide from the IRS the Swiss bank accounts, and the income they generated, and to circumvent the commitments that UBS and, later, other Swiss banks, had made to the IRS.

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