Ex-Swiss banker to hand account files to WikiLeaks
From: AP January 18, 2011 12:05AM
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, left, accompanied by former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, right, are seen after Elmer handed Assange two CD cases full of files, following a news conference at the Frontline Club in London, Monday, January 17, 2011 / AP
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A FORMER Swiss banker was on Monday due to hand over files to WikiLeaks which he alleges detail attempts by wealthy business leaders and lawmakers to evade tax payments.
Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, told Britain's "Observer" newspaper on Sunday that the documents include details of about 2000 accounts held in offshore financial centers. He says the account holders include "high net worth" celebrities, business leaders and lawmakers from the US, Britain and Asia.
Elmer, who has previously leaked banking documents to the secret-spilling site, was scheduled to hold a news conference later Monday at London's Frontline Club with a WikiLeaks representative. Vaughan Smith, the owner of the Frontline Club, said he couldn't say who the representative would be.
Smith's 10-bedroom mansion in eastern England has been serving as a makeshift headquarters for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange since he was released on bail on December 16. Assange has compared his bail conditions - which largely confine him to Smith's home - to "high-tech house arrest," but has recently promised that the flow of leaked documents would increase.
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Elmer's press conference comes two days before he is due to appear before a Zurich regional court to answer charges of coercion and violating Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws.
He told the "Observer" newspaper he planned to disclose the new set of files to expose activities in offshore financial centers. "The one thing on which I am absolutely clear is that the banks know, and the big boys know, that money is being secreted away for tax-evasion purposes," he was quoted as telling the newspaper.
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WikiLeaks given offshore Swiss bank details
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A whistleblower has given WikiLeaks two CDs, reportedly containing the names of 2,000 Swiss bank clients who may have been evading taxes.
Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer worked for eight years in the Cayman Islands - a British overseas territory in the Caribbean.
Mr Elmer said he wanted the world to know the truth about money concealed in offshore accounts.
Mr Elmer handed over the data to WikiLeak's founder Julian Assange at the Frontline Club in London - the website's British HQ.
Mr Assange put in a rare appearance away from the remote country house, where he is living while he awaits extradition proceedings.
"I am here today to support him," Mr Assange told reporters.
"He is a whistleblower and he has important things to say."
The Australian said it would be weeks before any of the information could be checked and published on the WikiLeaks website.
Mr Elmer declined to give the names of those on the CDs or say how many individuals were involved.
"The only hope I have is to get society to know what's going on," he said.
"I have been there, I have done the job, I know what the day-to-day business is, I know how much is documented there and how much is not.
"I know how the system works. I want to let society know how this system works because it's damaging our society."
Mr Elmer was dismissed in 2002 after eight years as the chief operating officer of Julius Baer Bank in the Cayman Islands.
He is to appear before a Zurich court later this week to answer charges of bank secrecy violations, after he passed on clients' data to WikiLeaks in 2007.
The move led to tax evasion prosecutions in several countries against these clients.
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Whistleblower hands Assange offshore bank secretsAFP
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange vowed to publish secret details of offshore accounts after a Swiss banking whistleblower handed over data Monday on 2,000 purportedly tax-dodging individuals and firms.
Former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who worked for eight years in the Cayman Islands, a renowned offshore tax haven in the Caribbean, personally gave Assange two CDs of data at a London press conference.
Elmer said he wanted the world to know the truth about money concealed in offshore accounts and the systems in place to keep it secret.
He handed over the data at the Frontline Club -- WikiLeaks' British HQ -- as Assange put in a rare appearance away from the remote country house of the club's founder, where he has been bailed to live while he awaits extradition proceedings.
"I am here today to support him," Assange told reporters.
"He is a whistleblower and he has important things to say."
The Australian promised "full revelation" of the data but said it would be weeks before any of the information could be checked and published by the WikiLeaks website.
Elmer declined to give the names of those on the CDs or say how many individuals were involved, though he mentioned the 2,000 figure in British newspaper The Observer, which published an interview with him Sunday.
He has said the information includes details on around 40 politicians, multinational companies and financial institutions from the United States, Europe and Asia all secretly avoiding paying tax.
"The only hope I have is to get society to know what's going on," he said.
"I have been there, I have done the job, I know what the day-to-day business is, I know how much is documented there and how much is not.
"I am against the system. I know how the system works. I want to let society know how this system works because it's damaging our society.
"We're going to talk about the system and that's why I'm here.
"The money is hiding in offshore banking secret jurisdictions."
He said he was offered money for his silence and that he offered the information to former German finance minister Peer Steinbrueck for free but had received no response.
Assange said WikiLeaks has so far released 2.3 percent of the 250,000 US diplomatic cables and was struggling with the volume of data.
The Australian is on bail in Britain awaiting Sweden's attempt to extradite him for questioning on sexual assault allegations.
A full extradition hearing will be heard at a London court on February 7-8.
Elmer was dismissed in 2002 after eight years as the chief operating officer of Julius Baer Bank in the Cayman Islands.
He is to appear before a Zurich court on Wednesday to answer to charges of bank secrecy violations, after he passed on clients' data to WikiLeaks in 2007.
The move led to tax evasion prosecutions in several countries against these clients.
In 2008 a former employee of Liechtenstein's biggest bank sold data on client accounts in the secretive Alpine banking haven to the German secret service for five million euros.
And last year officials in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia bought a computer disc for a reported 2.5 million euros with information on secret Swiss accounts.
As a result German tax authorities recovered 1.6 billion euros in 2010 from holders of the accounts, according to the weekly Der Spiegel.
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Nhiều độc giả khắp nơi trên thế giới từng theo dõi WikiLeaks và những vấn đề liên quan, đã tỏ lòng lo lắng cho Julian Assange dù họ vẫn biết rằng chính Julian Assange biết hơn ai hết mình đã và đang làm gì .
Riêng cá nhân conbenho xin được chân thành cám ơn những SỰ THẬT từ WikiLeaks và những người đã mang SỰ THẬT đến cho thế giới ngày nay, mà nhờ đó, giúp con người học hỏi và mở mang sự hiểu biết, kiến thức cũng như tìm hiểu thêm được nhiều vấn đề khác..
Mong cho Julian Assange được mọi sự an lành, may mắn .
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