“He insists his motives have always been pure: to repel Switzerland’s ‘attack’ on other countries’ tax laws and exchequers. HSBC says he is no whistleblower. He tried to sell the data at first, the bank contends, and only started to work with prosecutors when he was jailed in Spain. Many more tax-shy Europeans have reason to sleep fitfully. Other countries are said to want a look at the pilfered data, much of which is apparently yet to be decrypted. When Mr Falciani first made the rounds with his discs, governments showed little interest. The fiscal strains produced by the euro crisis have changed all that.”
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2013/10/banks-and-tax-evasion
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