Daily World Buzz: Wikileaks, soon on the website a list of offshore accounts. Politicians involved 40 different countries

Monday, January 17, 2011

Wikileaks, soon on the website a list of offshore accounts. Politicians involved 40 different countries

After Afghanistan and Iraq and in the wake of a new safe Cablegate secrets is coming to Wikileaks: and this time not to shake the Pentagon and the State Department but a few thousand multimillion potentially large tax evaders, including forty politicians. Rudolf Elmer, former Swiss banker who in three days will have to appear before the courts for violation of Swiss banking secrecy, decided to entrust the data in its possession at the site founded by Julian Assange.

The 'second Bradley Manning' Wikileaks to deliver two CDs with data on potential fraudsters tomorrow at the Frontline Club in London, an institution which played host to Assange before his arrest on behalf of the Swedish courts for sexual offenses. The founder of Wikileaks, which is currently under house arrest pending examination of an extradition request should be present.

Among the materials collected, Elmer said the same to Britain's The Sunday Observer, there are those for the accounts of "at least 40 politicians." The data relating to customers of three financial institutions, covering a period between 1990 and 2009. The banker, a director of the Cayman Islands branch of the mighty Julius Baer dismissed in 2002, is the first 'whistleblower' site Assange end up on trial.

The former employee of fact, Baer is returning from exile in Switzerland in Mauritius and will end on January 19 before the magistrate for falsification of documents, threats and violation of banking secrecy, a charge for a package much more limited information given to Wikileaks previously.

"I want to make public this information to educate society," he told The Observer. Elmer in the list are individuals, corporations, financial institutions and hedge funds from the United States, Britain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Asia and elsewhere "who used the screen of secrecy offered by offshore banks to avoid paying taxes," said the banker.

The approximately 2,000 names are not immediately made public as far Wikileaks has released a list of 15 names that Elmer gave in 2007 at the site of Assange. "Wikileaks will examine the data and if you find real cases of tax evasion will publish," said Elmer the Swiss newspaper Sonntag.