[pp.int.general] Hervé Falciani likely to be extradited to Switzerland

[Daniel Riaño]

apparently he did try to sell the data, and he finally gave the data for free.

I think he knew that after giving the data he will not only lose his
job, but any chance to be employed in a bank for as long as banks are
banks, or in any finance-related firm, as well as facing serious
accusations in Swizerland

2012/8/12 Dario Castañé <dario at pirata.cat>:
> El domingo, 12 de agosto de 2012 a las 13:02, Daniel Riaño escribió:
>
> well, that's the point: Hervé Falciani didn't take data from ordinary
> persons who had their savings with the Swiss, and he didn't try to
> blackmail people.
>
> He tried to sell the data.
>
> He took away data from very rich people,
> businesspeople and politicians who were either evading large sums of
> money (to avoid taxes or to avoid having to explain were did it come
> from) or washing dirty money.
>
> While trying to make profit. I'm not sure if whistleblowing should be done
> for profit.
>
> My opinion is you shouldn't whistleblow for money but I can be wrong.
>
> Do we know if he handled freely the data to secret services?
>
> Salut!
> Dario