GenevaLunch » whistleblower http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Hildebrand’s resignation: scandal grows more complex as IT data thief blames lawyerhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/09/hildebrands-resignation-scandal-grows-more-complex-as-it-data-thief-blames-lawyer/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/09/hildebrands-resignation-scandal-grows-more-complex-as-it-data-thief-blames-lawyer/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:17:22 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65057 GenevaLunch.com IT whistleblower says lawyer took advantage of him ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss central bank chairman Philipp Hildebrand, age 48, has just resigned, effective immediately, but the scandal over the theft of private bank data and the financial transactions of Hildebrand’s wife is not likely to die down quickly. He had worked for the bank since [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/09/hildebrands-resignation-scandal-grows-more-complex-as-it-data-thief-blames-lawyer/feed/ 0 Caterpillar’s Geneva operations at heart of debate over tax dodges vs savingshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/caterpillars-geneva-operations-at-heart-of-debate-over-tax-dodges-vs-savings/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/caterpillars-geneva-operations-at-heart-of-debate-over-tax-dodges-vs-savings/#comments Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:49:08 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59553 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Bloomberg, the business news agency, and its partner Business Week, have put Caterpillar’s Swiss operations squarely in the spotlight with a lengthy article that is being widely picked up by US media: it questions whether the company’s use of Geneva for some tax savings purposes is legal under US law. The Peoria, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/08/caterpillars-geneva-operations-at-heart-of-debate-over-tax-dodges-vs-savings/feed/ 1 WikiLeaks bank data donor gets hit with CHF7,200 finehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/wikileaks-bank-data-donor-gets-hit-with-chf7000-fine/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/wikileaks-bank-data-donor-gets-hit-with-chf7000-fine/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:36:57 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52606 GenevaLunch.com Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Former Bank Julius Baer employee Rudolf Elmer has given a CHF7,200 suspended fine but no prison sentence for stealing data from the bank and handing it to tax authorities, the media and whistleblowing web site WikiLeaks. He will pay CHF5,000 in court costs; the loser in Swiss court cases generally bears [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/wikileaks-bank-data-donor-gets-hit-with-chf7000-fine/feed/ 1 Bank WikiLeaks contributor Elmer has his day in courthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/bank-wikileaks-contributor-elmer-has-his-day-in-court/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/bank-wikileaks-contributor-elmer-has-his-day-in-court/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:54:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52576 GenevaLunch.com Admits he sent anonymous threats to former employer (TSR video, Fr) Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Rudolf Elmer, famously photographed with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange five days ago in London at a press conference, appeared in court in Zurich Wednesday morning to face several charges of threats against his former Swiss bank employer and theft of [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/19/bank-wikileaks-contributor-elmer-has-his-day-in-court/feed/ 4 Julius Baer nemesis reborn as Assange pal (update)http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/julius-baer-nemesis-reborn-as-assange-pal-update/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/julius-baer-nemesis-reborn-as-assange-pal-update/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:16:21 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52481 GenevaLunch.com Update 18 January  Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was back in the headlines Monday 17 January with a much-publicized appearance with publicity-keen former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who turned over to Assange, at a press conference in London, some 2,000 files with what he says are private bank account details. Elmer goes [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/17/julius-baer-nemesis-reborn-as-assange-pal-update/feed/ 8 Birkenfeld, man behind US case against UBS, says US did a dealhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/27/birkenfeld-man-behind-us-case-against-ubs-says-us-did-a-deal/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/27/birkenfeld-man-behind-us-case-against-ubs-says-us-did-a-deal/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:00:54 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=46338 GenevaLunch.com Jailed banker claims US Dept of Justice hushed investigations into “super-rich and politically powerful” US figures with Swiss bank accounts WRS Birkenfeld audio interview 26 August 2010 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Bradley Birkenfeld is not taking his imprisonment for conspiring to defraud the US government sitting down quietly. The former UBS private banking manager in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/08/27/birkenfeld-man-behind-us-case-against-ubs-says-us-did-a-deal/feed/ 1 ex-UBS Birkenfeld asks for lighter sentencehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/28/ex-ubs-birkenfeld-asks-for-lighter-sentence/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/28/ex-ubs-birkenfeld-asks-for-lighter-sentence/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:04:40 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=34474 GenevaLunch.com Miami, Florida, USA (GenevaLunch) – Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS wealth manager in the US who set off a court case between the US tax authority, the IRS, and Switzerland’s largest bank, says he is ready to give more evidence. Birkenfeld, who stands to benefit from the IRS Whistleblower programme, is scheduled to go to [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/28/ex-ubs-birkenfeld-asks-for-lighter-sentence/feed/ 1 HSBC data theft may involve more than 10 clientshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/14/hsbc-data-theft-may-involve-more-than-10-clients/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/14/hsbc-data-theft-may-involve-more-than-10-clients/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:58:25 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=33662 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The French public prosecutor in Nice, southern France, Eric de Montgolfier, has revealed that his office is in possession of confidential details of up to 130,000 clients from HSBC’s private banking branch in Geneva. The data was acquired by the French state when Hervé Falciani, a former IT employee of the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/14/hsbc-data-theft-may-involve-more-than-10-clients/feed/ 0 Swiss ask French for aid in bank client data thefthttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/11/swiss-ask-french-for-aid-in-bank-client-data-theft/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/11/swiss-ask-french-for-aid-in-bank-client-data-theft/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:07:01 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=33529 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevLunch) – The French justice minister, Michèle Alliot-Marie, confirmed Thursday 10 December that Switzerland has asked for administrative assistance in the case of data theft from HSBC Bank in Geneva, and that French authorities would answer it, reports Swiss-German newspaper NZZ. A former employee of the British bank’s private banking arm has provided [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/12/11/swiss-ask-french-for-aid-in-bank-client-data-theft/feed/ 1 Whistleblower advocate groups urge US Dept of Justice to review Birkenfeld sentencehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/whistleblower-advocate-groups-urge-us-dept-of-justice-to-review-birkenfeld-sentence/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/23/whistleblower-advocate-groups-urge-us-dept-of-justice-to-review-birkenfeld-sentence/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:21:44 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=30324 GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland and Washington, DC (GenevaLunch) - US Attorney General Eric Holder is being urged to review the case of Bradley Birkenfeld, the former UBS banker whose testimony was instrumental in the US government’s case of tax fraud against the Swiss bank. Birkenfeld was sentenced in August 2009 to 40 months in prison for his [...]

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