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Ex-UBS banker's sentence is 3 years

He aided tax probe, didn't tell of his role

Posted: August 22, 2009 at 2:55 a.m.

A former banker described by prosecutors as the man most responsible for sparking a broad U.S. investigation into rich Americans' use of secret Swiss bank accounts to evade taxes was sentenced Friday to more than three years in federal prison.

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