News leaks

Istanbul is going through active days because of Turkey?s G-20 presidency. Due to this, G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors were holding meetings in our city.

Before them, International Finance Institute held a conference in Istanbul. In the ?Reinvigorating growth, reducing inequality? session, the focus was ?transparency.?

Politicians in Switzerland called Feb. 9 for an investigation into HSBC's Swiss unit, at the centre of a vast scandal over clients' tax evasion, money laundering and financing of terrorist groups.
      
Opening an investigation "would be the least that could be done," former Swiss foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey told the RTS public broadcaster.

A cache of secret bank files shows that HSBC's Swiss banking arm helped wealthy customers avoid taxes and hide millions of dollars, according to a report by a network of investigative journalists released Sunday.
      

According to a statement on Wednesday, the HIDAA has filed charges with the prosecutor's office against 16 officials, including former Socialist MP Harasani, under article 257/a of the criminal code.

If found guilty, the ex-MP faces a sentence ranging from a fine up to three years of imprisonment.