Hervé Falciani, who revealed how HSBC's Swiss banking arm helped
wealthy customers avoid taxes and hide millions of dollars, is a man
with an ambiguous and chequered personal story.
Falciani sees himself as “part James Bond, evading dangerous, powerful opponents and working with government intelligence agents, and part disappointed idealist, shocked by the reality he encountered at the bank he once worked for”, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) which is coordinating the media exposé of HSBC Private Bank’s wrongdoings.
Read morePBusiness - Is HSBC whistleblower Falciani the French 'Snowden'? - France 24
Falciani sees himself as “part James Bond, evading dangerous, powerful opponents and working with government intelligence agents, and part disappointed idealist, shocked by the reality he encountered at the bank he once worked for”, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) which is coordinating the media exposé of HSBC Private Bank’s wrongdoings.
Read morePBusiness - Is HSBC whistleblower Falciani the French 'Snowden'? - France 24
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