A senior executive with Swiss banking giant UBS AG has been indicted on charges of conspiring to hide some $20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service.
The indictment unsealed Wednesday in South Florida names Raoul Weil as the defendant. The federal indictment claims Weil's division at UBS (nyse: UBS - news - people ) helped some 20,000 U.S. clients conceal assets from the IRS between 2002 and 2007. The indictment says some clients filed false tax returns.
Last year, Weil was named chief executive officer of the UBS division in the U.S. that handles cross-border business and private banking.
It wasn't immediately clear if Weil had hired a lawyer. UBS officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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