A Swiss court has declared today to Rudolf Elmer, who on Monday delivered about 2,000 customers to Wikileaks, guilty of violation of banking secrecy and threats to an employee of his former employer, the financial institution Julius Baer. The court has sentenced former Swiss banker to a fine of 7,200 Swiss francs (about 5,500 euros) and has been suspended for two years.The prosecution asked for it a sentence of eight months in prison and a fine of 2,000 francs (about 1,557 euros). Rudolf Elmer has acknowledged in court today than before the tax authorities sent some customer data of the entity for which he worked. Elmer, who has already earned deWikileaks in 2008, is accused of breach of secrecy in a case has nothing to do with web filtering documents.
He faces a prison sentence of eight months and pay a fine of 2,000 Swiss francs (1,549 euros) for soliciting money in exchange for providing secret information on accounts located in the Cayman Islands, violating the banking and corporate secrecy and threaten several colleagues at the institution where he worked, the Swiss investment bank Julius Baer.
Elmer worked for the private bank 15 years, eight of them as director of the Cayman Islands branch, until in 2002 ended so unfriendly to their relationship with the entity. Said today during the trial, held in Zurich, following his departure the Swiss bank began a campaign of "psychological terror" against him and his family took him to react.
The former banker also denied in court being behind a false bomb alert to the central Julius Baer, as well as having tried to blackmail the company they worked. According to his version, was the financial institution which offered 500,000 Swiss francs (about 370,000 euros) in exchange for not disclosing customer data, something that says he has never cashed.
According to the prosecutor Alexandra Bergmann, Elmer has denied blackmail (it has recognized instead sending threatening messages to his colleagues) because it contradicts the image of complaining of poor business practices. An image that the prosecution sees it as "rhetoric and defense strategy" because Elmer began to cultivate "a long time after leaving the bank." "While working in the Cayman Islands so the system never questioned," Bergmann added.
A vendetta? On Monday, Elmer London facilitated the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, two hard drives with data from 2,000 customers who might commit a crime of tax evasion. The deposits belong to three banks (one of which is Julius Baer), and its owners are about 40 political as well as a "pillar of society" and businessmen, "people who have made a fortune in the arts and conglomerates multinationals on both sides of the Atlantic, "according to Elmer and Assange on Monday during a press conference held at the London Club Front.
As explained by the Swiss, 55, gave the information to the portal after the Swiss and German authorities refused to investigate. Julius Baer considers that the conduct of former banker is part of a "vendetta" by the refusal of the entity to pay the amount of compensation demanded after being fired in 2002.
The same revenge for Elmer and spent 30 days in custody for revealing secrets and now he has brought before the Swiss courts.
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