Ex-Swiss banker to hand account files to WikiLeaks
Former Swiss banker, was on Monday due to transfer files to WikiLeaks which he argues in detail attempts wealthy business leaders and legislators to evade taxes.
Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss bank Julius Baer, said the British newspaper the Observer on Sunday that the documents contain details on the 2000 accounts in offshore financial centers. He says that the account holders include "high value of the net" of celebrities, businessmen and members of the U.S., UK and Asia.
Elmer, who had a leak of bank documents, secret shedding site, was scheduled to hold a news conference later Monday in the Frontline Club in London with a representative of WikiLeaks. Vaughan Smith, the owner of the Frontline Club, said he could nottell who will be the representative.
10-bedroom mansion Smith in eastern England was to serve as temporary headquarters WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, since he was released on bail on December 16. Assange compared his bail conditions - which are largely restricted to his home Smith - in the "high-tech house arrest", but recently promised that the leakage current of documents will increase.
Elmer press conference comes two days before to appear before the Zurich regional court to answer charges of coercion and violation of Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws.
He told the Observer newspaper that he plans to open a new set of files to expose the activities of offshore financial centers. "The only thing on which I am absolutely clear that the banks know, but the big boys know that the money hidden in tax evasion purposes," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
Rudolf Elmer, a former employee of Swiss bank Julius Baer, said the British newspaper the Observer on Sunday that the documents contain details on the 2000 accounts in offshore financial centers. He says that the account holders include "high value of the net" of celebrities, businessmen and members of the U.S., UK and Asia.
Elmer, who had a leak of bank documents, secret shedding site, was scheduled to hold a news conference later Monday in the Frontline Club in London with a representative of WikiLeaks. Vaughan Smith, the owner of the Frontline Club, said he could nottell who will be the representative.
10-bedroom mansion Smith in eastern England was to serve as temporary headquarters WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, since he was released on bail on December 16. Assange compared his bail conditions - which are largely restricted to his home Smith - in the "high-tech house arrest", but recently promised that the leakage current of documents will increase.
Elmer press conference comes two days before to appear before the Zurich regional court to answer charges of coercion and violation of Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws.
He told the Observer newspaper that he plans to open a new set of files to expose the activities of offshore financial centers. "The only thing on which I am absolutely clear that the banks know, but the big boys know that the money hidden in tax evasion purposes," the newspaper quoted him as saying.
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