article_snippet.sent: A judgement handed down by a Paris criminal court added: ‘The seriousness of the facts are an exceptional threat to the public good.
article_snippet.sent: the tax authorities're vicious.'
article_snippet.sent: Everyone had to give Everyone in and pay a fortune.'
article_snippet.sent: Judges also ordered that houses in Paris and on the holiday island of Corsica worth more than £3m be seized.
article_snippet.sent: Jean-Marc Fedida, one of the defence barristers, said 'justice was done under frenetic, brutal pressure', so as to use a high-profile defendant as a 'warning to all those' with offshore accounts.
article_snippet.sent: A BBC Panorama earlier this year further highlighted the issue.
article_snippet.sent: Above, an aerial view of the HSBC tower in London .
highlights_snippet.sent: 74-year-old was fined around £700,000 and will have two properties seized .
  