GENEVA - The former banker Rudolf Elmer, the man who has spent a WikiLeaks information on alleged tax evaders with accounts in Switzerland, was arrested. Swiss police stopped him in connection with new allegations about the files delivered to Assange. "The prosecutor's office is doing checks to see if Rudolf Elmer has violated the law by passing the Swiss bank cd (with data) to WikiLeaks," it said in a joint police and attorney.The arrest comes just hours before the sentence imposed by a court to Elmer Zurich for breach of banking secrecy and threats. The court had sentenced the former banker for payment of 7,200 Swiss francs on probation. Prosecutors had asked for eight months in prison and a penalty of 2,000 francs.
Elmer gave Julian Assange two CDs with the names of more than 2,000 large potential tax evaders. The Swiss, a former employee of Julius Baer dismissed in 2002, had initially tried to report to the tax authorities say his illegal activities at the bank, which would help customers to build up tax havens in the Cayman Islands.
Then the decision to put it all online at Wikileaks. Elmer has admitted passing information to Assange. The former banker also confirmed that he had sent threatening letters to the summit of the institution, claiming to have them written in a time of strong psychological pressure.
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