A US court on Friday sentenced a former American banker at Swiss banking giant UBS to 40 months in prison for helping wealthy US clients evade taxes, the Justice Department said. Bradley Birkenfeld pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States on June 19, 2008.
The whistleblower's confession led to the US government's probe of a multimillion-dollar tax evasion case against UBS, Switzerland's biggest bank. Birkenfeld, of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was sentenced by Judge William Zloch in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.