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HSBC whistleblower given five years’ jail over biggest leak in banking history

• mastermojo 11y ago
  Did he sell the data? How can prosecutors accuse him of personal gain if he did not gain anything personally? What a kangaroo court.
• harry8 11y ago
  HSBC is the bank the americans didn't prosecute because as they said, HSBC would surely lose their banking license and that would be bad for the economy. The swiss, yeah, profiting from the proceeds of fraud, keeping the proceeds when banking customers die (or are murdered like crime bosses and dictators often are) and their one excuse for their whole private banking system, protection from persecution, lost all credibility when they turned the Jews back at the border to die, kept their money and destroyed as many of the records so the descendants of those they sent back to die couldn't get it back. So now the Swiss are on the side of HSBC when HSBC have, yet again, been caught out in criminal behavior. Is anyone surprised by it?
• cant_kant 11y ago
  "...he had brought his own laptop with him, which the company had no control over. He was able to install his own software on it. The laptop’s USB ports, into which memory sticks are inserted, were not blocked. From October 2006 until he was questioned by police on 22 December 2008, Falciani used his privileged access to download data including bank account numbers, client names, addresses and dates of birth, and sums held in accounts. ....his actions, including approaches to banks in Lebanon, suggested he had wanted to sell the stolen data. .... Falciani had given a series of different reasons: that he wanted to “conduct a simple test”, that he was using fictitious data, and that he wanted to test the bank’s security. " Sounds dodgy in the extreme