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The House of Representatives has rejected a deal with the United States that would have enabled the handover of data on thousands of customers of the Swiss bank UBS. June 8, 2010. Parliamentarians on Tuesday voted 104 to 76 against the controversial settlement deal on sharing banking data that was signed last August between the […]

Guide to assist whistle blowers launched Persons who intend to blow the whistle (report) on corrupt personnel or acts have been advised to be mindful about the way they go about it to avoid being victimized in the end. “You should not tell anybody if you blow the whistle,” Madam Florence Dennis, Executive Secretary of […]

(Washington Post) Former Swiss banker Bradley Birkenfeld had secrets he was burning to tell, secrets so profound they could change lives and fortunes, beginning with his own. They could make him rich, and they could send him to prison. They could expose thousands of Americans who had hidden money from the Internal Revenue Service, and […]

(NY Daily News) A former banker who blew the whistle on thousands of secret bank accounts rich Americans held at Swiss giant UBS claimed Thursday some U.S. politicians also kept off-shore accounts with the bank. “We had an office in Washington that we all referred to as the PEP office – for ‘Politically Exposed People,’” Bradley Birkenfeld said. He was speaking […]