He broke the silence yesterday on France 2

It's called Hervé Falciani, Franco. It is, this former framework of HSBC Bank, which sent the French authorities the list of persons suspected of tax evasion in Switzerland. He broke the silence yesterday on France 2. It ensures that it has "not received money" on the part of the tax authorities, confirming statements by Budget Minister Eric Woerth. Hervé Falciani explained that he had been arrested in Switzerland in December 2008 for trespass in the files of the Bank, then released. He then fled to France, where he "helped" justice to decrypt the data stolen, he said yesterday.

These data are particularly large. The list includes 130,000 names, all combined nationalities, announced yesterday in "Log of Sunday" the Prosecutor of the Republic of Nice, Eric de Montgolfier. And the amounts at stake are huge: between 4 and byUSD6.6 of dollars of assets in movements of accounts only for the French, according to our information. It is not balances movements, is de de fonds fonds Fund pas: payments, transfers, transfers, knowing that a person can hold multiple accounts. All are not necessarily fraudulent, but in all cases their users will have to explain the origin of the assets.

Two parallel investigations

There are now two parallel investigations, tax services of the IREB (National Directorate of tax investigations) and justice led by mounted police and the judicial customs. Each is pursuing different goals: the State, potential fraudsters French, justice, offenders, suspected of money laundering, be they French or foreign. The French would be between 3,000 and 4,500 on the 130,000.

So, are these data, which the fraudulent origin is no doubt exploitable To get back to the chronology of events. Hervé Falciani arrives in France early 2008. He then puts in relation to the French tax services and their book a database of stolen to his former Bank. For what purpose, if it was not done pay "It is a computer scientist who lives in his world, said an investigator, his motives are of type messianique." "He fears that the methods used by his bank could contribute to the financial crisis." "He considers that it has a role to play," confirms Eric de Montgolfier. Shortly after his arrival in France and then the IREB begins to decrypt its data, Hervé Falciani is summoned by the mounted police, which has just received a commission of Swiss justice. HSBC Geneva filed a complaint against its former employee theft.

To the police, the ex-cadre explained that he sent to the tax authorities the data... and it is quite prepared to disclose them also. The investigation of the gendarmerie and the judicial customs begins. Quickly, send to the tax authorities a first list of French taxpayers. It will allow the State services to give a legal basis for further actions files and, in the meantime, to put pressure on the 3,000. A kind of legal money laundering. It is indeed in the summer that the Budget Minister communicates on this list of potential fraudsters summoned to repatriate their assets.

Nevertheless, the file was stolen and several lawyers already threatening to continue the administration while the State promises to prosecute as soon as January, once the "amicable" implemented by Eric Woerth window closed. The investigation is finished. "There are thousands of names, to do a sort. "We must define a method to exploit data and detect if there is in these accounts of the capital whose origin is in doubt", said the Attorney. The list of Hervé Falciani still promises surprises.