March 12, 2010
Published: 4 Feb 10 10:02 CET
Updated: 4 Feb 10 15:00 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100204-25029.html
The scope of a newly uncovered tax evasion scandal reached a new dimension on Thursday, as German officials said far more money was likely squirreled away in Swiss accounts than previously thought.
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over the weekend, the belgian national bank sent a fleet of security vans with enough belgian franks to do the economy some serious harm, together with an army escort, over the border to the small towns on the Dutch side ready for monday morning. Sure enough, come monday, a flood of belgians crossed over to empty their franc-denominated savings accounts in slavenburgs, in cash; they then walked across the road and opened new accounts in one of the other banks that were spread all over that area. The security vans just loaded up all their belgian
cash from the other banks and took it back to belgium
apparenty, it was the only time that belgian military had 'invaded' holland, with or without consent