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Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Hervé Falciani: 'Banks created a system for making themselves rich at the expense of society/ Φαλτσιάνι: «Οι τράπεζες διευκολύνουν τη φοροδιαφυγή και το ξέπλυμα χρήματος»

At the end of 2008, Hervé Falciani committed what is believed to have been the most portentous theft of banking data in history. The systems engineer and former employee at the Geneva offices of HSBC left Switzerland for France and took data from around 130,000 customers at the Anglo-Asian bank along with him.

France's finance minister at the time, current International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde, then handed data supplied by Falciani on to other countries. With the help of the information, authorities were able to uncover hundreds of cases of tax evasion, including those involving members of Spain's Botín banking family. In Greece, the data, which is often referred to as the "Lagarde List," was largely forgotten until it returned to the headlines during the debt crisis.

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