spain party podemos to work with swissleaks whistleblower
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Spain party Podemos to work with SwissLeaks whistleblower

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French former employee of HSBC Herve Falciani
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Spanish protest party Podemos said Monday the man behind the SwissLeaks tax-dodging revelations, Herve Falciani, will draw up a report for it on anti-tax fraud measures ahead of this year's general elections.
Podemos's leader Pablo Iglesias confirmed reports of the planned collaboration between his party and Falciani, the former HSBC bank employee who stole the files at the heart of the scandal.
"Many thanks to Falciani for offering to work with Podemos on its programme. He will be an immeasurable help," Iglesias wrote in a Twitter message.
Another senior Podemos figure, Luis Alegre, told a news conference that Falciani had agreed to draw up a report on fraud prevention measures for the party.
With its vows to oust what it calls a corrupt political elite, Podemos was formed only a year ago but is already a serious contender in the Spanish general election due in November, according to recent opinion polls.
One key poll published last week placed it second in voting intentions after the ruling conservative Popular Party.
Falciani, a Franco-Italian computer specialist who worked for HSBC in Geneva before turning whistleblower, ran in last May's elections for the European parliament as a candidate for another Spanish protest party, Partido X.
That party won just over 100,000 votes, a fraction of the 1.2 million landed in those elections by Podemos, which secured five seats in the European Parliament just four months after its founding.
French daily Le Monde and other international media on Sunday published data provided by Falciani that indicated HSBC's Swiss division helped wealthy customers dodge millions of dollars in taxes.
Falciani handed the files to French investigators in 2008 and until now their details had been known only to certain authorities, apart from a few leaks in the press.
Falciani was arrested in Barcelona in 2012 at the demand of Swiss prosecutors who accused him of economic espionage and other crimes.
A Spanish court in May 2013 refused to extradite him and he has since worked with Spanish tax authorities, helping them identify fraudsters.
Among Spanish figures named in the "SwissLeaks" HSBC affair were the late head of Santander bank Emilio Botin and Alfons Godall, a former vice-chairman of Barcelona football club.
They were reported to have regularised their tax affairs.
Also named was Formula One champion driver Fernando Alonso, who has likewise claimed to have settled his tax debts, Spanish newspaper El Confidencial reported.

 

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