A Swiss banker Wikileaks formalized delivery of thousands of secret accounts database

A former Swiss banker has provided the Wikileaks page Julian Assange data on hundreds of overseas bank accounts of clients suspected of tax evasion. It has done so publicly in a press conference in London which was attended by both the founder of Wikileaks as the banker, Rudolf Elmer, who on Wednesday will be tried in Switzerland for breaking the rules of banking secrecy.

In an interview published in Forbes magazine in November, Assange already announced that it would have information on banks. Elmer, an executive who was fired in 2002 from the office of private bank suizoJulius Baer in the Cayman Islands, has become Assange information on two discs containing the names, and transaction details of around 2,000 customers of banks to send money abroad to obtain tax benefits that way.

Among the clients there are important businessmen, artists and about 40 politicians, has said Elmer, who has not provided any name. The founder of Wikileaks says that the names of holders of bank accounts will be published on the website WikiLeaks in two weeks, after verification of all data.

Assange leaked Wikileaks has said that these documents Wikileaks will "for the safe route" and that a team will study the material to protect some of the sources "before passing information to others" and published. "It is clear that Elmer is a complainant in good faith, so" I have a duty to support you in this, "added Assange the press conference.

Elmer has said he assumes full responsibility for the data to be published." I think as a banker I have the right to ask whether there is something wrong, "he highlighted the banker." I am against the system. I know how the system works and I know the day to day business. From that standpoint, he wanted society to know what I know, "said the banker.

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