US indicts four Swiss bankers

Four bankers who worked at Credit Suisse Group were charged with conspiring to help clients in the US evade taxes through secret bank accounts, according to an indictment and people familiar with the matter.

Marco Parenti Adami, Emanuel Agustoni, Michele Bergantino and Roger Schaerer conspired with clients at “one of the biggest banks in Switzerland,” according to an indictment yesterday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. Zurich-based Credit Suisse, the second-biggest bank in Switzerland, is the bank, according to the people who requested anonymity because they aren’t authorised to speak publicly about the indictment. The scheme included setting up undeclared accounts protected by Swiss bank secrecy.