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Interview | Bradley C. Birkenfeld on whistle-blowing: Any felony that you witness must be reported; silence is complicity and it perpetuates criminality
Mihai Cristea 18/12/2020 | 18:25
A former private banker and author of the fascinating best-seller
Lucifer’s Banker, Bradley C. Birkenfeld is considered the most influential financial whistleblower of all times, as his series of disclosures (2005-2011) shed light on illegal offshore banking practices, tax evasion, and corporate crime, as he broke the so-called
bankers’ Omertà – the banking secrecy laws – now being viewed as a traitor in the close-knit caste of Swiss bankers. However, for many other in the banking world, Birkenfeld was a blessing in disguise for the Swiss financial sector, as his series of revelations drove the final nail in the coffin of bank secrecy laws that permitted tax evasion and he practically aided Switzerland’s finance industry to shake off its dependence to d