On 18th September 2018, the Spanish High Court in Madrid, rejected a second extradition request from Switzerland for Herve Falciani. Mr Falciani was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment after being convicted of obtaining data illegally and of breaching bank secrecy laws, a crime in Switzerland known as ‘aggravated financial espionage.’ You can find our previous […]
On 12th September 2018, Senior District Judge Emma Arbuthnot, the Chief Magistrate, heard closing submissions in Dr Vijay Mallya’s extradition hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The Indian authorities have requested the extradition of Dr Mallya to face criminal charges in relation to allegedly fraudulent loan applications that he made on behalf of his, company Kingfisher […]
Herve Falciani, a former HSBC employee who has been convicted of violating bank secrecy laws in Switzerland, is facing potential extradition from Spain to Switzerland. In 2008, Mr Falciani disclosed more than 100,000 account records to the French and other European authorities because, so he claimed, he believed that the account holders were evading tax. […]
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