Sunday, January 23, 2011

Wikileaks & the Sword Hanging Over Someone's Head

"WikiLeaks to Publish Data From Ex-Julius Baer Banker" [Bloomberg]:

"WikiLeaks plans to release data on about 2,000 cross-border bank accounts provided by a former Julius Baer Group Ltd. employee, who says they may have been set up to evade taxes."

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is ready to publish details of rich and famous individuals involved in mass tax evasion. They are said to include politicians, business people and multi national conglomerates." [Investment International]

Can you imagine the sweating that some of our "personalities" might be suffering? All these politics that give us lessons about how to overcome the crisis, all these artists that give us lessons on how to be more social?

But it is sure that this "transparency" won't be easy, nor free...

"Rudolf Elmer, who handed over bank client data to WikiLeak’s Julian Assange this week, was detained in Zurich late yesterday as prosecutors investigate possible breaches of Swiss banking secrecy laws." [Business Week]

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