Wikileaks, Swiss Bank And The Indian Politicians

It is very interesting news that a previous ‘Swiss banker’ has given         all the data containing details of the account of approximately two thousand famous people to Julian Assange (founder, Wikileaks). That data isn’t available on the website of wikileaks, yet. That data was contained in two discs. The two discs were handed over by Rudolf Elmer at a press conference in London, as reported by the BBC News.

Mr. Julian Assange has promised to disclose the full information once the information had been checked and examined carefully. Mr. Rudolf Elmer is scheduled to go on trial in Switzerland because he has broken the secrecy laws of the Swiss Bank.

According to the report published in Swiss newspaper, ‘Der Sonntag’ that data possibly covers financial firms, multinationals, and rich persons from many of the countries which include the United Kingdom, United States and Germany, and also the most important thing that it covers the period between 1990 and 2009.

Mr. Julian Assange said, “Once we have looked at the data… there will be a full surprising disclosure, Mr. Julian Assange is currently on bail and he is confined only to the UK because of an extradition request from Sweden. {The Wikileaks founder, Mr. Julian Assange had been accused of sexual misconduct by two women in Sweden, including that he had unprotected sex without consent. But he denies all these charges.}

Wikileaks founder, Mr. Julian Assange said that the data would be vetted before publication. It was difficult to say how long this would take. Although, he has suggested that, it could take as much as two weeks. The vetting process would depend upon the amount of information and how it was represented. He also said that the other groups for example, the Tax Justice Network or Financial Media Outlets, could be asked for helping Wikileaks in this vetting process.

Mr. Julian Assange also said that some of the information was likely to be handed over to the authorities, for example the UK’s Serious Fraud Office, just like the previous case regarding Icelandic banks.

It was not confirmed that what activities could be covered by that data, the Wikileaks head noted that previous data from Julius Baer provided by Mr Elmer was about evading from tax, the hiding of money obtained from criminal activities.

Mr. Rudolf said, “I’m against the system. I know how the system works”, at the press conference. He said that a sophisticated network did exist to guide illicit money into offshore accounts secretly. Mr. Rudolf said,”I’ve been there. I’ve done the job. I know what the day-to-day business is”, while explaining that why did he thought it more important to identify himself as the source.

The Banker said that he was put in prison in Switzerland for 30 days because he had violated the Swiss banking rules. According to him, he was also offered money as well as the withdrawal of all the charges against him, in order to buy him as well as his silence. He also said that the data included the offshore accounts of about forty politicians, the data also covered offshore accounts at three banks, including where he was employed, earlier.