3.5 million euro cd

The German authorities did it again: they bought from an anonymous source a CD with a dump of a database of German citizens who have accounts in a Swiss bank. Since information is a banking secret of another state, by definition it could not be obtained legally. The source is either a hacker or a bank employee who broke the law and stole information from his employer.

The story is exactly the same as two years ago . Disk purchased from an unknown person. The cost of the disk is estimated in millions (3.5 million euros), and the affected citizens have already begun to admit to evading taxes. The authorities expect that with the help of “compromising material” they will collect taxes and fines of more than 100 million euros.

Reportedly, the acquired database contains information about 1000-1500 wealthy Germans, and all of them are customers of the Swiss branch of the private bank Coutts. Each of these citizens has a condition that is in the tens or hundreds of millions. Representatives of Coutts have already made an official comment and denied rumors of a hacking computer system: the investigation did not reveal any signs of penetration into the bank’s computer network.
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Two years ago, several German lands acted as buyers of the database, this time the disk was bought for budget funds from North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous of the 16 German lands.

As you know, in Switzerland there are strict laws on the protection of bank secrecy, so that Germany is not able to obtain information about the accounts of its citizens in Swiss banks by legal means. True, the situation may change next year if the relevant agreement at the level of the two countries comes into force, although experts are confident that the opposition parties in the German parliament will succeed in blocking the ratification of this treaty.

By the way, in March of this year, Switzerland issued arrest warrants for three German citizens, whom she considers to have been involved in the incident two years ago. The Swiss attorney general even expressed the suspicion that these intruders "could spy at Credit Suisse at the specific request of officials in North Rhine-Westphalia."