On January 21^st, 2014 I asked to be heard by the American justice in reference to the trial of Mr Raoul Weil. As a Number 3 at UBS and a Managing Director of UBS Wealth Management, he was directly leading the operations in Americas, Europe and Asia. Suspected to have organized the tax evasion of more than 20,000 American citizens for an amount reaching twenty billion US dollars, Raoul Weil pleaded not guilty about the charges against him, recognizing that he had no responsibility in the tax evasion system implemented by UBS. During the autumn of 2014, he was released by a Florida court. This decision of the Florida justice is surprising when one knows that the USA has made the banks pay huge amounts after being sentenced in tax evasion cases. In 2009, UBS had to pay an amount of 780 million US dollars after an agreement with the US authorities and when Mrs Hillary Clinton was then Secretary of State.

The banks pay very high fines because they have committed the fraud. However the managers of the banks, those who design the commercial strategies and have them implemented by their bankers are not sentenced. My request remained unanswered. How can one then qualify the American justice if it does not even listen to key witnesses of those files whilst it claims to be fighting tax evasion?

After the rescue plan of the banks because they are ‘too big to fail’, the US media have exposed a ‘too rich to jail’ when Raoul Weil was released, which tends to prove the incestuous relations between the banking industry, the justice and their country’s political leaders. After being under investigation in France, Raoul Weil could be afraid to be sentenced, but unlike the other UBS managers, he was made not guilty during the 2018 trial. Dieter Kiefer, former President of the Advisory Board of UBS France and former top manager of the Western Europe Division at UBS was sentenced to a suspended eighteen month jail sentence and a Eur 300,000 fine. As far as I am concerned, I was very surprised of this decision because in 2009 I had received an Email from a UBS executive in Switzerland, which was precisely revealing:  "I have always said that Raoul W. was making lots of mistakes by constantly changing the structures. Kiefer quite agreed with me. This is the reason why many client advisors leave the bank. It's a shame. After all, he also pays for the "mistakes" he has made". 

We must also know that Washington pays those who work with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Bradley Birkenfeld, a former banker at UBS who left the bank in 2005, spent thirty months behind bars and cashed a check in the amount of one hundred and four million US dollars when released. I have even heard said that he would cash between five and twenty additional million US dollars per year during the next ten years, as the IRS will receive the amounts back from the UBS offshore clients, those relating to a certain number of pieces of info