One of the richest families in Germany suspected of tax avoidance

One of the richest industrial dynasties of Germany family Schuler Voight got into the field of view of the fiscal authorities. Investigators from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia suspected Munich industrialist Robert Schuler Sign in theft of funds from taxation in the offshore.

Employees tax services raided a villa Schuler Vojta and seized numerous documents. The investigation is carried out through the loud affairs of clients of the Swiss private bank Julius Baer. The bank was founded in the Cayman Islands subsidiary, Julius Baer Bank Trust Company (JBTC), which is directly involved in storage of client funds.

As the FTD, one of the features of the financial scheme was that in the case JBTC it was not about bank accounts and trusts of the owners of which immediately after their base had all the rights and property management in JBTC. The names of the founders of the trust is only mentioned in the memorandum of association, which then remained in JBTC.

Thus, to find out who is behind the money and property trusts, translated in the offshore, it became virtually impossible. Exit on the trail of tax authorities in Germany deviationists was only after the former manager JBTC Rudolf Elmer, who was fired in 2002, presented to the authorities insider information about clients of the management company

As founder of one of the trusts - Moonstone - someone mentioned "Dr. Robert Schuler. The investigators suggest that for this name hides Robert Schuler Voight, however, to draw an unambiguous conclusion can not yet. For its part, Schuler Voight refused to give any comments on this issue.

As the AFP, the family Schuler Voight among other things owns engineering group Schuler AG, produces equipment for the metalworking industry. In addition, the family is the major shareholder of a large company producing household and household goods Leifheit.

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