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Hervé Falciani: hundreds like me were working to drag down HSBC

• http://uk.businessinsider.com, Stefano Pozzebon

You may have thought of Falciani as a solitary whistleblower. But that's not the case.

In his latest book, "La Cassaforte degli Evasori," Falciani describes the existence of a network of well-trained agents who worked in different roles to drag down the banking giant.

Here is how Falciani described it:

We were about a hundred people, all working towards the same objective, but only ten of us worked from within the bank. We were aware that, if the news about our actions would leak, we could have faced dangerous consequences both in our work and our lives.

Falciani says that he was contacted as early as 2006 by people from a highly-sophisticated organisation:

It wasn't me who tried to contact the secret services. It all happened through some people from HSBC branch in Geneva. They were not Swiss secret agents, I don't know what nationalities they were, but they were part of an organisation highly sophisticated and perfectly camouflaged. In Switzerland, I would learn, nothing is as it looks.
 


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