Former Julius Baer Group banker Rudolf Elmer has been charged with breaking Swiss bank secrecy laws for allegedly giving confidential data to WikiLeaks and German authorities.
Elmer, who ran the Caribbean operations of the Swiss bank for eight years, has been under investigation by Zurich prosecutors since 2011 after he publicly handed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange two discs containing confidential information on about 2,000 offshore banking clients.
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Elmer, who left the bank in 2002, said he wanted the world to know the truth about money concealed in offshore accounts and wide-spread tax evasion.
In the past, some German states have bought data leaked from Swiss banks in order to get at names of their citizens who evade taxes.
Elmer was already found guilty by a lower court in 2011 of breaching Swiss bank secrecy laws.
In a separate case, another former Julius Baer employee was sentenced to three years in prison last August for breaking the laws.
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