According to an administrative court in Montreuil, Stephanie Gibaud, the whistleblower who revealed tax fraud at UBS, a Swiss bank giant, can seek compensation from France's tax administration.
Tax authorities received information from the former UBS marketing manager in France. However, she declined to request compensation in 2020. They relied on a decree that stated that only information prior 2017 could be used to award financial compensation. These documents can still be used after the date they were given, which the administration "does not dispute", according to the Montreuil administrative court (Seine-Saint-Denis), following a hearing on June 23.
Therefore, the court ordered that the director general for public finances "re-examine" Stephanie Gibaud's request within three months.
Former executive believes he is entitled to receive 3.5million euros. This sum was calculated in relation to the tax evaded that could have been identified by his actions. Antoine Reillac, his lawyer, said that it was a significant step forward and additional recognition. She was living "on social minima" and was "publicized, and even ostracized." He assured me that she would be rehabilitated.
The Paris administrative court in 2018 ordered her to pay 3,000 euros by the State "in compensation of the moral damage she sustained as a consequence of her occasional collaboration with the public service between June 2011 and June 2012."
In 2012, Stephanie Gibaud was dismissed. She had filed a 2009 complaint for moral harassment. UBS granted 30,000 euros to the prud’hommes. In 2010, she was released for non-public defamation. After the publication of "The Woman Who Really Knew too Much", she was again charged with defamation.
The appeal was made by the Swiss bank to pay 1.8 million euros to the French subsidiary. This sentence is final. The subsidiary must be tried for harassing Stephanie Gibaud, Nicolas Forissier and another whistleblower. It also has to be tried for obstruction of the CHSCT's regular operation and witness tampering.
