{"id":8458,"date":"2011-01-17T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2011-01-17T19:05:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T17:05:29","slug":"8458","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/17\/8458\/","title":{"rendered":"A leak in paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aleakinparadise.com\/\">Ruedi Elmer is a whistleblower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I've never met him, but I respect the fact that he realised what he was doing as a private client manager in the Caribbean for a Swiss bank was wrong and took action to address the abuse he witnessed.<\/p>\n<p>This morning in London he hands over more files - with, I stress, all names removed to Wikileaks.  I won't be at the press conference when he does so, but I support what Ruedi is doing (subject to a key condition - which is that he preserves the anonymity of those about whom disclosure is made - this is an issue for tax authorities alone. He must concentrate on the systemic point, in my opinion) - and the care he is taking. And I wish him well for his forthcoming trial in Switzerland - a trial for alleged offences that did not take place in Switzerland and over which, therefore, it seems its jurisidiction is very dubious indeed.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, this is a trailer for a forthcoming film on the issue in which I note I appear:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"390\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C2sBpshDHzo&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C2sBpshDHzo&amp;hl=fr_FR&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruedi Elmer is a whistleblower. I&#8217;ve never met him, but I respect the fact that he realised what he was doing as a private client<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/01\/17\/8458\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}