
“The sale and purchase of CDs listing the details of Germans suspected of stashing assets in Swiss banks to avoid taxes should be made illegal, Germany’s justice minister told a newspaper on Saturday. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, a member of the Liberal party (FDP), told the Rheinische Post that buying the data was currently a grey area legally but amounted to theft. ‘Buying this data is a murky and highly problematic area both ethically and morally speaking but also judicially,’ she said.”
http://www.thelocal.ch/page/view/german-minister-wants-to-ban-sale-of-swiss-data
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