Ex-Swiss banker gives WikiLeaks new trove of financial secrets. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange took possession today of thousands of new documents revealing the private banking details of the world's richest hedge fund managers, corporations and wealthy individuals who squirrel away money in off-shore banking havens to avoid paying tax.
Mr. Assange, on bail in London and fighting extradition to Sweden, said his team would study the "means, motives and opportunity" of people cited in the documents before handing over relevant information to the Serious Fraud Office, the U.K. financial investigator. He promised full disclosure on Wikileaks Web site once the information is verified by the Web site's staff. Mr. "We will treat this information like all other information," Mr. The documents are the second tranche of banking details given to Wikileaks by Rudoph Elmer, an accountant and former Swiss banker who earlier blew the whistle on the Julius Baer Bank when he was chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands.
Mr. "I am against the system. Mr. Mr. A Leak in Paradise (teaser) Julius Baer Group - Swiss Private Bank - the leading Swiss private banking group - Julius Baer Group. Whistle while you work | From the Guardian. A secretive Swiss bank landed an apparently novel censorship blow against the internet this week. Anyone who tried to call up wikileaks.org, a global website devoted to publicising leaked documents, found themselves frustrated. The site simply wasn't there any more. The Julius Baer bank in Zurich succeeded in hamstringing the shadowy individuals behind the website by the simple trick of moving not against them, but against a US company that hosted their domain name. Dynadot, the California resellers who collect a few dollars by this internet trade, submitted to a legal injunction ordering the name to be deleted.
Yet however wise this scheme may have appeared at the time to the Swiss bank's Los Angeles lawyers, Lavely & Singer, it has now backfired in a big way. The injunction blew up a gale of debate about internet freedom, and sprayed the bank's secret documents all over the net. Wikileaks is not the first site of its kind. The files tell some interesting stories. Who are Wikileaks? Julius Baer Group. Julius Bär Group Ltd. (or Julius Baer Group, SIX: BAER) is a Swiss private banking group.
It has locations in more than 20 countries. Switzerland and Asia are the group’s two home markets, with the head office being located in Zurich. History[edit] Boris F.J. The 4th generation was involved with the leadership of the organisation with Raymond Bär[4] from 1988 until 2012, last as Chairman of the board of Julius Baer Holding Ltd. The shares of the Julius Baer Group are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and form part of the Swiss Market Index (SMI) of the 20 largest and most liquid Swiss stocks. Capital and scale[edit] Julius Baer originally operated as a partnership and was incorporated on November 27, 1974 with a share capital of CHF 14.040 mio, divided into 56‘400 registered shares of CHF 100 each and 16‘800 bearer shares of CHF 500 each.
Julius Baer ranked 16th in term of Asset under Management in 2012. Acquisitions and growth strategy[edit] Subsidiaries and associations[edit] See also[edit] Swiss banker who helped WikiLeaks faces trial - FoxNews.com. Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks | Media | The Observer. The offshore bank account details of 2,000 "high net worth individuals" and corporations – detailing massive potential tax evasion – will be handed over to the WikiLeaks organisation in London tomorrow by the most important and boldest whistleblower in Swiss banking history, Rudolf Elmer, two days before he goes on trial in his native Switzerland.
British and American individuals and companies are among the offshore clients whose details will be contained on CDs presented to WikiLeaks at the Frontline Club in London. Those involved include, Elmer tells the Observer, "approximately 40 politicians". Elmer, who after his press conference will return to Switzerland from exile in Mauritius to face trial, is a former chief operating officer in the Cayman Islands and employee of the powerful Julius Baer bank, which accuses him of stealing the information. Elmer says he is releasing the information "in order to educate society".
The bank also accuses Elmer of threatening colleagues. Press Conference with Rudolf Elmer - Uploaded by frontlineclub. Wikileaks obtains Swiss bank info. What follows is our live-blog of the press conference from sources who were in the room. It appears in reverse chronological order, with the most recent items first. To read it as it unfolded, start at the bottom of the cluster and work your way up. In the below pic, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange poses with one of the two discs of information from Swiss banking whistleblower Rudolf Elmer. Although he and Elmer will now hand the information over to the authorities, in effect challenging them not to act, both head off to face the music.
Assange returns to check in at his local police station as part of his bail arrangement, while Elmer flies to Switzerland to face the music. One imagines that the Swiss will not be happy at the man who has tried to pull the rug out from under a major industry. A man has just walked thru the room saying "I can't believe there's so much interest in this ghastly man! " Urgh - this 'handover' of CDs is just so contrived I don't think I can watch anymore. Press conference with Rudolph Elmer : un album. Share photos on Twitter. Share photos on Twitter. Photo : yfrog.com/gy6mcncj - Shared by BrettMason10. Instagr.am. WikiLeaks given 2000 secret bank files.
Private banker hands Assange secrets A whistleblowing Swiss banker hands supposed offshore banking secrets to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a London news conference. P 18, 2011 THE Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer has provided WikiLeaks with two CDs containing information on more than 2000 bank clients suspected of tax evasion. The disks were handed over in London last night to the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange. Mr Assange, on bail before an extradition hearing in London next month over Swedish sexual assault charges, said that Mr Elmer has been fighting to have the information made public for five years. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, left, receives CDs from former banker Rudolf Elmer.
"I am here today to support him," Mr Assange said. Advertisement "There will be full revelation of names [by WikiLeaks] at a later date, assuming the data is correct and once we have had a look at it. " NOS Headlines - Bankeninfo voor Assange - Nieuws. De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies. We maken een onderscheid tussen functionele cookies en cookies voor het beheer van webstatistieken, advertenties en social media. De cookies bevatten geen persoonsgegevens en zijn dus niet tot een individu te herleiden. Met de cookies voor advertenties en social media worden mogelijk door derden gegevens verzameld buiten de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep. Bij instellingen kun je aangeven deze cookies niet te accepteren. Door hiernaast op akkoord te klikken of door gebruik te blijven maken van deze website, geef je toestemming voor het plaatsen van cookies bij bezoek aan de websites van de Nederlandse Publieke Omroep.
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The data needs to be vetted before it gets released, and some of it will likely be handed over to the authorities. "Once we have looked at the data... there will be full revelation," said Assange. The freshly leaked data covers the period from 1990 to 2009 and concerns companies and individuals from many countries, including the UK, U.S. and Germany, Swiss newspaper Der Sonntag reports. Rudolf Elmer has previously worked in Swiss bank Julius Baer; he was fired from his position in 2002 and has previously leaked information to WikiLeaks about Julius Baer's offshore operations at the Cayman Islands. [via BBC] WikiLeaks promises to reveal Swiss banking secrets. NEW: About 2,000 client records are handed overWikiLeaks could publish the documents within weeks, Julian Assange saysRudolf Elmer says he has a right to stand up if he sees something wrongElmer and Assange are fighting Swiss banking secrecy London (CNN) -- A Swiss whistle-blower Monday handed over what he said were secret Swiss banking records to WikiLeaks, the website dedicated to revealing secrets.
Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer handed two discs to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at a news conference in London. WikiLeaks could release the secret Swiss banking records in "a matter of weeks" if it can process them quickly enough, Assange said. Elmer said he would not reveal the names in the records and said he was unable to say how many people were involved. Who is Rudolf Elmer? He said about 2,000 clients' records were included, but that because of the way trusts and corporations are set up, he could not determine how many individuals were involved. New WikiLeaks whistleblower. Rudolf Elmer, Ex-Swiss Banker, Gives Data to WikiLeaks. NBC News Wikileaks Vs, The Banks ~ The Dylan Ratigan Show. Rudolf Elmer, Ex-Swiss Banker, Gives Data to WikiLeaks.
Jay Rosen : Whistleblower handing over... WikiLeaks-linked banker on trial - Europe. A Swiss banker, who claims to have handed WikiLeaks details of rich tax evaders, has appeared before a Swiss court to face charges for breaking Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws. Rudolf Elmer's trial on Wednesday comes two days after he handed more client data to WikiLeaks that prosecutors allege he stole after being fired from his job at Julius Baer Bank. The data which was given to Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, included two data CDs that Elmer said contained names of 2,000 wealthy account holders, but refused to give details of the companies or individuals involved.
Elmer said he was trying to expose a widespread system of tax evasion by rich businesspeople and politicians. Prosecutors allege that Elmer tried to extort money from Julius Baer and its senior executives and also sent bomb threats to his ex-employer. He also said he did not breach Swiss bank secrecy, since the documents he leaked referred to accounts in Cayman, where Swiss courts have no jurisdiction. Richter: Elmer ist ein Whistleblower aus Rache - Schweiz: Standard. Der ehemalige Bankmanager Rudolf Elmer ist am Mittwoch vom Bezirksgericht in Zürich wegen Verletzung des Bankgeheimnisses und wegen Nötigung für schuldig befunden worden.
Der 55-jährige Elmer wurde zu einer bedingten Geldstrafe von rund 7200 Franken verurteilt. Richter Sebastian Aeppli lehnte den Antrag der Staatsanwaltschaft auf eine achtmonatige unbedingte Freiheitsstrafe ab. Die Verteidigung hatte eine bedingte Geldstrafe von rund 1000 Franken beantragt. Elmer, der auf den Cayman Islands tätig war, stahl nach Überzeugung der Staatsanwaltschaft Kundendaten, nachdem er im Dezember 2002 vom Bankhaus Julius Bär entlassen wurde. Anschliessend soll er versucht haben, von der Bank Geld zu erpressen. Elmer beruft sich darauf, er habe unethische oder sogar illegale Geschäfte des Instituts aufdecken wollen. Staatsanwältin Alexandra Bergmann warf Elmer während der eintägigen Verhandlung vor, Daten von Bankkunden im Ausland an Schweizer Steuerbehörden und Medien weitergegeben zu haben. Urteilsspruch im Fall Julius Bär gegen Rudolf Elmer. Wikileaks-connected Swiss banker found guilty in bizarre one-day trial.
Swiss banker linked to Wikileaks is found guilty. 19 January 2011Last updated at 19:44 Rudolf Elmer was fined but escaped a prison sentence A former Swiss banker who said he gave Wikileaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of breaching Switzerland's strict bank secrecy laws. A judge in Zurich did so even though the leaked documents referred to accounts in the Cayman Islands. Judge Sebastian Aeppli handed Rudolf Elmer, 55, a suspended fine of more than 6,000 Swiss francs ($6,250; £4,000). But he rejected prosecution demands to give Elmer an eight-month prison sentence. Elmer also said that he had handed confidential Julius Baer banking files to tax authorities, and later the Wikileaks website run by Julian Assange, because he had wanted to expose tax evasion by businessmen and politicians.
Mr Assange said he will publish that information within weeks, once it has been checked. Speaking minutes before he returned to court to hear the verdict, Elmer told reporters: "I made big mistakes, I admit that... 01-19 Reuters: Swiss re-arrest Rudolf Elmer for giving data to WikiLeaks [UPDATE: 1] Reuters: Swiss police on Wednesday arrested former banker Rudolf Elmer on fresh charges of breaching Swiss bank secrecy law for giving data to WikiLeaks, hours after he was found guilty of another secrecy offense. "The state prosecutor's office is checking to see whether Rudolf Elmer has violated Swiss banking law by handing the CD over to WikiLeaks," the Zurich cantonal (state) police and state prosecutor said in a joint statement.Earlier on Wednesday, a court found Elmer guilty of breaching banking secrecy for publicising private client data.
He was also found guilty of threatening an employee at his former firm Julius Baer. Update 1:Submitted by KnowledgeEmpire on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 15:57 Mr. Elmer, who was chief operating officer at private bank Julius Baer's office in the Cayman Islands, argued in his defence that Swiss banking laws were not officially breached since the disclosed information does not refer to Swiss bank accounts, only accounts in the Caymans. Mr. Mr. Tax justice network.