Sri Lankan politicians and Swiss Account saga!
A cache of leaked Swiss bank files analysed by a network of investigative reporters contained information linked to 92 Sri Lankan clients holding 129 accounts with a total value to the tune of approximately US $ 58.3 million (approx. Rs.7.7 billion). According to International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the maximum amount of money associated with a client linked to Sri Lanka was US $ 10.7 million (approx. Rs.1.4 billion) and the country is placed at 112th among the countries with the largest dollar amounts in the leaked Swiss files. Over 100,000 secret files belonging to HSBC’s Swiss banking arm were leaked in 2007 and were analysed by ICIJ, which enlisted more than 140 journalists from 45 countries in cooperation with France’s Le Monde, Britain’s […]
