The betrayal – Dangerous Millions Episode 5

Published on September 14, 2023

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On December 22, 2008, Swiss prosecutor Laurence Boillat interviewed an HSBC bank employee at Geneva police station. The employee was a computer scientist called Hervé Falciani, who had been born in France and had lived in Switzerland for ten years. Over several months, the Swiss police had been received tips accusing him of attempting to sell banking data. But that evening, the magistrate let him go home without managing to extract any information from him. Is Falciani a whistle-blower who found a flaw in the computer system of an international bank, or a troubled figure motivated by greed? From the “Chocolat” operation launched by the French tax authorities to the “Swissleaks” scandal, which revealed to the general public the names of French celebrities who hid their income from the tax authorities in Swiss bank accounts, the courts spent nine years questioning the extent of Falciani's involvement in what looked like a major theft. At the time of the scandal, journalists Marie Maurisse and François Pilet were among those assigned to scrutinise the lists of bank data stolen from HSBC. The podcast Dangerous Millions recounts how Switzerland became a money-laundering hub for criminals from all over the world. Welcome to the secret world of financial crime. Dangerous Millions is co-produced by SWI swissinfo.ch, the international online news and information service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, Europe 1 Studio and Gotham City.
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