The trial of former Julius Baer banker Rudolf Elmer, who has been accused of breaching Swiss banking secrecy laws by handing over confidential data about offshore clients to WikiLeaks, has resumed after Elmer collapsed outside the courtroom in Zurich last month.
The banker accepted that he passed confidential client data to WikiLeaks but argue his actions were not illegal.
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Elmer’s lawyer Ganden Tethong argued that Swiss law doesn’t apply to Elmer because the alleged offences didn’t occur in Switzerland and he wasn’t actually employed by the bank at the time.
Tethong claimed that the state must cover his legal costs and compensate him for time already served and the loss of business while he was detained.
While, prosecutors argued that Elmer should be banned from working as a banker and should cover the cost of the trial in addition to three and a half years of prison sentence.
The court said it would deliver its verdict on 19 January 2015.
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