Even in jail, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is easily able to court controversy.  Not content with toppling governments, Wikileaks is turning its attention on the institution of the secret Swiss bank account.  Long a staple of espionage movies and organized crime pictures, the iconic secret Swiss bank account is being taken on by Wikileaks and self-styled activist/reformer/banker Rudolf Elmer, with Wikileaks set to leak the secrets of Swiss banking to the world.

“I think as a banker I do have the right to stand up if something is wrong,” said Rudolf Elmer at a London news conference.  Elmer’s goal is “to let society know what I do know and how this system works because it is damaging our society in the way that money is moved” to be hidden in offshore jurisdictions and aims to “challenge Swiss Bank Secrecy at the European Court of Human Rights and the Swiss courts.”

Rudolf Elmer is scheduled to go on trial in Switzerland for violating the country’s banking secrecy regulations.  He’s worked for six different massive banks in his career, from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland.  Elmer previously worked with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on a banking secrecy lawsuit in 2008; Wikileaks’ Swiss bank accounts have been recently frozen as part of the CIA’s Operation WTF.

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