Author: Lynn Voedisch
WikiLeaks, the Internet-based, whistle-blowing site that has had the government in knots for the past few months might just be pulling the metaphorical pants down on big-time investors. A former Swiss banker named Rudolf Elmer, who once worked at Julius Baer, where account holders had extremely high net worth, said he gave documents to WikiLeaks that show attempts by more than 2,000 wealthy businessmen and women and by lawmakers to evade tax payments.
Standing alongside Elmer at London’s Frontline Club on Monday to collect the files, was WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, who is out on bail from Swedish authorities, who have charged him with sex crimes. Assange praised the ex-banker’s attempts to expose the shady dealings of the owners of the Swiss bank accounts.
Assange has not yet revealed the names on the list but that has not stopped oddsmakers in the United States from coming up with likely names that will appear on Wikileaks’ forthcoming rouge’s list. At bmaker.ag, one of the leading sportsbooks in the U.S. these are the odds:
Nicolas Cage +400 or 20 percent
Oprah Winfrey +250 or 28 percent
Wesley Snipes +200Â or 33 percent
Mike Tyson +800 or 11 percentÂ
Scott Disick +500 or 16 percent
Donald Trump +350 or 22 percent
John Edwards +100 or 50 percent
Two or more of these +100 or 50 percent
Celebrities
(The +/- indicates return on the wager. The percentage is the likelihood that response will occur. Betting on the candidate least likely to win would earn the amount of money, should that happen.)
Back to the hard news, Assange said that with his organization focused on its cache of 250,000 diplomatic cables, it could be several weeks before Elmer’s files are reviewed and posted on the WikiLeaks Web site.
“We will treat this like all other information we get,” Assange told the Canadian Press. “There will be a full revelation.”
From London, Assange will fly to Zurich, where he is to answer charges of coercion and violating Switzerland’s strict banking secrecy laws.
For his part, Elmer would not reveal specifically what he shared with Assange.
