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|homepage = |intl = }} Wegelin & Co. is a now-defunct bank that was located in St. Gallen in the Canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland, and specialized in private banking and asset management. Between 2002 and 2010, Wegelin & Co. assisted citizens of the United States in evading taxes on assets totalling over $1.2 billion. In early 2012, Wegelin & Co. transferred all its non-US activities, clients, and assets, and almost its entire staff, to its subsidiary Notenstein Privatbank. Notenstein Privatbank was subsequently sold to the Raiffeisen banking group. In January 2013, the reduced Wegelin pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a New York court to assisting more than 100 American citizens to hide $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service over a 10-year period. Although the bank's practice is legal under Swiss law, the bank agreed to pay $57.8 million (£36m; €44m, or about 5% of the $1.2 billion) in fines to US authorities. At about the same time that the plea agreement was announced, Wegelin & Co. declared that it would close. The Notenstein Privatbank continues to operate from the former Wegelin & Co. headquarters with its former 700 employees. conspiracy in helping Americans evade taxes on at least $1.2 billion for nearly a decade. Wegelin agreed to pay $57.8 million to the United States in restitution and fines. Otto Bruderer, a managing partner at the bank, said in court that "Wegelin was aware that this conduct was wrong." 〔〔〔http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/04/us-swissbank-wegelin-idUSBRE9020O020130104#81HsYlpb0bTmBS1O.99〕 Founded by Caspar Zyli in 1741, the company was renamed Wegelin & Co. in 1893. The bank's legal name changed multiple times by incorporating the names of the senior personally liable partners. As of 2013, the bank's name was ''Wegelin & Co. Privatbankiers, Gesellschafter Bruderer, Hummler, Tolle & Co.'' 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Handelsregister des Kantons St. Gallen )〕 At the time of its closing, it was the oldest bank in Switzerland and the 13th oldest in the world. ==History== The bank was founded as a partnership by a linen-cloth merchant by the name of Caspar Zyli (1717–1758), and was originally named ''Leinentuchhandel und Speditionshandlung'' ("Linen trade and freight forwarder"). The company provided banking services from the beginning. In 1798 Zyli's son acquired the Nothveststein building. In 1860 Zyli's nephew Emil Wegelin-Wild became a partner. He concentrated the firm's activities on asset management. The firm was converted to a Kommanditgesellschaft in 1893. It changed its name to the current name in 1893, which originated from Emil Wegelin-Wild. 〔The Bankers' almanac and year book: Volume 2 1992 - Retrieved 11 July 2012 → ()〕 In 1913 a case involving an amount of about $250,000 owed to the bank reached the New York Supreme Court's Appellate Division.〔New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Reports of cases heard and determined in the Appellate Division of ...: Volume 154; Volume 154 (1913) - "DEAR SIRS. — We wish to inform you for your own benefit that the firm as per attached slip, is in a bad financial condition, they owe their bankers (commission house) nearly $250000, ..."〕 In the 1990s the bank underwent a management buyout orchestrated by one of its managing partners, Konrad Hummler. Eight partners controlled 80% of the bank, while the Wegelin family owned the other 20%.〔 This management structure was for the most part maintained until the bank closed. As of 2013 the personally liable partners were Otto Bruderer, Konrad Hummler, Steffen Tolle, Michele Moor, Christian Raubach and Christian Hafner. The bank grew from a small bank with only 30 employees in 1990 to 700 employees and 13 offices as of 2011. New offices were opened in Zurich (1998), Lugano (2000), Bern (2002), Basel, Geneva and Locarno (all 2007), Chur (2009), Lucerne (2010), Winterthur (2011) and other cities. By 2003 the firm was privately owned by five people, and remained private as of January 2012. 〔A Thierstein, EW Schamp - Innovation, finance, and space Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, 2003 → ()〕〔S Blankson - (The Practical Guide to Total Financial Freedom, Volume 5 ) Lulu Press Incorporated, 30 June 2005. Retrieved 17 July 2012 ISBN 1411620542〕〔CUREM (Center for Urban & Real Estate Management) Zurich - (Immobilienwirtschaft aktuell: Beiträge zur immobilienwirtschaftlichen Forschung 2011 ) vdf Hochschulverlag AG, 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2012 ISBN 3728133876〕〔The united States Dept. of Justice (2 February 2012 ). Retrieved 17 July 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wegelin & Co.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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