{"id":13852,"date":"2012-01-28T09:35:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T09:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=13852"},"modified":"2012-01-28T09:35:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T09:35:10","slug":"hsbc-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/28\/hsbc-again\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC, again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/25\/uk-hsbc-probe-idUKTRE80O1FQ20120125\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters has reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HSBC Holdings PLC is under investigation by a U.S. Senate panel in a money-laundering inquiry, the latest step in a long-running U.S. effort to halt shadowy money flows through global banks, according to people familiar with the situation and a company securities filing.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry being conducted by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations could yield a report and congressional hearing later this spring, these people said. The subcommittee has a history of conducting high-profile hearings that have proved embarrassing for the world's biggest banks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People have suggested I am seeking to highlight HSBC's seemingly consistent involvement in investigations of tax evasion as if I have ulterior motive.<\/p>\n<p>I dispute that: I don't need to highlight that HSBC seem to be consistently involved in investigations of tax evasion; the fact is that they are.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, why is that the case?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe The Rev Lord Stephen Green could offer an explanation as former CEO and Chair of the bank?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters has reported: HSBC Holdings PLC is under investigation by a U.S. Senate panel in a money-laundering inquiry, the latest step in a long-running U.S.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/01\/28\/hsbc-again\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,55,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-tax-evasion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}