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Swiss banker vows to hand secrets of tax fraud and offshore accounts to WikiLeaks – ‘What I am objecting to is not one particular bank, but a system of structures’. January 16, 2011. A Swiss banker whose actions caused a US judge to briefly shut down WikiLeaks three years ago has promised to hand over a trove of banking secrets to the secret-spilling organization on Monday, a UK newspaper reported. Releasing the bank details of 2000 “high net worth individuals” and companies could reveal huge potential tax evasion, The Observer reported on Sunday. Both American and British firms and individuals, including about “40 politicians,” will be implicated, Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss-based Bank Julius Baer, told the newspaper. The list of individuals and companies includes multinational conglomerates and hedge funds that are “using secrecy as a screen to hide behind in order to avoided paying tax,” Elmer told the Observer. The banker told the newspaper he intended to “educate society” with the release. Those implicated include “business people, politicians, people who have made their living in the arts and multinational conglomerates – from both sides of the Atlantic,” Elmer said, according to the Observer. Individual names will not be released, the newspaper reported. Similarly, a shorter list of 15 customers the banker gave WikiLeaks in 2008 has not been revealed, it said. “Well-known pillars of society will hold investment portfolios and may include houses …

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