{"id":32928,"date":"2016-03-29T06:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T05:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=32928"},"modified":"2016-03-29T06:33:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T05:33:35","slug":"the-fts-just-noticed-that-not-every-swiss-bank-account-was-not-quite-as-its-managers-wanted-it-to-seem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/29\/the-fts-just-noticed-that-not-every-swiss-bank-account-was-not-quite-as-its-managers-wanted-it-to-seem\/","title":{"rendered":"The FT&#8217;s just noticed that not every Swiss bank account was not quite as its managers wanted it to seem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn't help but notice this opening paragraph to an article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the link between the following political scandals? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/topics\/organisations\/Petroleo_Brasileiro_SA\" data-trackable=\"link\">Petrobras<\/a> case in Brazil, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/1MDB-scandal\" data-trackable=\"link\">1MDB<\/a> affair in Malaysia, the unravelling of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/topics\/organisations\/FIFA\" data-trackable=\"link\">Fifa<\/a>, the prosecution of a French minister and a party funding row in Spain. The answer is Swiss bank accounts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stone me: the <a href=\"https:\/\/next.ft.com\/content\/ab1b23ba-f1dc-11e5-aff5-19b4e253664a\" target=\"_blank\">FT's just noticed<\/a> that some Swiss bank accounts may not have been used for wholly licit purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Catch up chaps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn&#8217;t help but notice this opening paragraph to an article: What is the link between the following political scandals? The Petrobras case in Brazil,<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/03\/29\/the-fts-just-noticed-that-not-every-swiss-bank-account-was-not-quite-as-its-managers-wanted-it-to-seem\/\"><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":[14,35,63,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-economics","category-switzerland","category-tax-evasion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32928","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=32928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}