Patrick Radden Keefe, The Bank Robber: The computer technician who exposed a Swiss bank’s darkest secrets. The New Yorker, 30 May 2016. “A few days before Christmas in 2008, Hervé Falciani was in a meeting at his office, in Geneva, when a team of police officers arrived to arrest him. Falciani, who was thirty-six, worked for H.S.B.C., then the largest bank in the world. He was on the staff of the company’s private Swiss bank, which serves clients who are wealthy enough to afford the minimum deposit—half a million dollars—required to open an account…. As the Swiss police escorted him from the building, he insisted that he had done nothing wrong.”
May 30, 2016
The Bank Robber: The computer technician who exposed a Swiss bank’s darkest secrets
May 30, 2016 Filed Under: Banking, Criminal Justice, Ethics, Law, The One Percent Tagged With: ben lewis (director of the documentary falciani's tax bomb), bradley birkenfeld, georgina mikhael, great council of geneva (1713), h.s.b.c. (hong kong and shanghai banking corporation), hervé falciani, international consortium of investigative journalists, james henry, le monde, marc henzelin, mossack fonseca (law firm in panama city), organisation for economic co-operation and development, panama papers, republic national bank, ruben al-chidiak, tax justice network, transparency international u.s.a.