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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attacked Switzerland for arresting a Swiss banker, Rudolf Elmer, on suspicion of breaching banking secrecy instead of investigating the tax evasion he said Elmer had uncovered. In an interview published in Swiss weekly Der Sonntag, Assange said Switzerland's actions were drawing renewed international attention to its controversial banking practices. Switzerland's bank secrecy helped it build a $2 trillion wealth management industry but the laws have come under intense global attack in recent years, with neighboring Germany buying secret data from informants to track down tax evaders. Assange said Switzerland was not the only country involved in the offshore banking structures that were depriving tax authorities worldwide of some $22 billion.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70K4GT20110123
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