主题:冰岛总理辞职,不能保证媒体对巴拿马文件的披露是所有真实。 -- 唵啊吽
CNBC采访了揭露过瑞士银行的Bradley Birkenfeld:
Bradley Birkenfeld is the most significant financial whistleblower of all time, so you might think he’d be cheering on the disclosures in the new Panama Papers leaks. But today, Birkenfeld is raising questions about the source of the information that is shaking political regimes around the world.
Birkenfeld, an American citizen, was a banker working at UBS in Switzerland when he approached the U.S. government with information on massive amounts of tax evasion by Americans with secret accounts in Switzerland. By the end of his whistleblowing career, Birkenfeld had served more than two years in a U.S. federal prison, been awarded $104 million by the IRS for his information and shattered the foundations of more than a century of Swiss banking secrecy.
In an exclusive interview Tuesday from Munich, Birkenfeld said he doesn’t think the source of the 11 million documents stolen from a Panamanian law firm should automatically be considered a whistleblower like himself. Instead, he said, the hacking of the Panama City-based firm, called Mossack Fonseca, could have been done by a U.S. intelligence agency.
“The CIA I’m sure is behind this, in my opinion,” Birkenfeld said.
Birkenfeld pointed to the fact that the political uproar created by the disclosures have mainly impacted countries with tense relationships with the United States. “The very fact that we see all these names surface that are the direct quote-unquote enemies of the United States, Russia, China, Pakistan, Argentina and we don’t see one U.S. name. Why is that?” Birkenfeld said. “Quite frankly, my feeling is that this is certainly an intelligence agency operation.”
Asked why the U.S. would leak information that has also been damaging to U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, a major American ally, Birkenfeld said the British leader was likely collateral damage in a larger intelligence operation.
“If you’ve got NSA and CIA spying on foreign governments they can certainly get into a law firm like this,” Birkenfeld said. “But they selectively bring the information to the public domain that doesn’t hurt the U.S. in any shape or form. That’s wrong. And there’s something seriously sinister here behind this.”
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🙂冰岛总理辞职,不能保证媒体对巴拿马文件的披露是所有真实。 42 唵啊吽 字1870 2016-04-07 17:32:36
🙂楼主的逻辑挺奇怪的 3 以一敌七 字482 2016-04-14 23:49:06
🙂楼主的逻辑无问题。你的逻辑值得推敲 8 红军迷 字974 2016-04-15 13:56:27
🙂据CNBC报道,迹象显示这次是CIA的杰作
🙂“巴拿马档案”女克中枪全国装无视 36 高中三年 字662 2016-04-09 13:17:42
🙂本来就是驱赶各路资金回师勤王。既然美联储加不了息, 10 常挨揍 字200 2016-04-13 08:17:42
🙂的确太明显了 6 红军迷 字249 2016-04-07 20:38:24
🙂谢。改了。 唵啊吽 字0 2016-04-07 22:49:18