'Austrian tax evasion whistleblower' dies in Swiss jail

[Octafish]

Source: Austrian Independent

An Austrian tax evasion whistleblower has been found dead in his prison cell, a local newspaper has claimed.

Kronen Zeitung revealed today (Fri) the Tyrolean passed away in his cell in a jail in Winterthur, Switzerland.

The Vienna daily claimed Swiss authorities have refused to give out any further information on the incident. It also reports that the man’s family were unaware he had been arrested.

According to the article the 42-year-old was the unidentified whistleblower who raked in millions for handing a data disc carrying information about German tax evaders to the German government.

Reports have it that the CD contained secret data on around 2,000 Germans who illegally stashed hundreds of millions of Euros on accounts in Switzerland to save taxes.


Read more: http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2010-10-01/4765/'Austrian_tax_evasion_whistleblower'_dies_in_Swiss_jail

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When it comes to outting tax cheats, whistleblowers go to jail. Now one may have died for telling the truth. Anyone remember this thing called "Justice"?

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Kicked, recommended, and bookmarked

Fishy doesn't even begin to describe this.

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[Arctic Dave]

3. K&R

[librechik]

4. The way the world treats whistleblowers is scandalous.

I'm look at you, DOJ...

[w4rma]

5. Billionaire tax cheats will murder for money. (nt)

[formercia]

6. Jail is not a good place to be if you're a snitch

The boys can really fuck with you there.

[greiner3]

7. Now imagine if he had messed with Swiss chocolate!

[era veteran]

8. Not happy with the Swiss Government

The most legal of illegal states.

[glitch]

9. Justice is for whiners. nt

[Festivito]

10. Dang whiney founding fathers.

Imagine. It's the first thing those guys established.

[glitch]

11. First Amendment: The Right to Free Whine.

Of course back then Wine was spelled with an h. ;)

[boppers]

12. The link is a 404...

...and without context, how exactly does someone rake in millions for being a supposed whistle blower?

[Octafish]

13. Here you go.

http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2010-10-01/4765/'Austrian_tax_evasion_whistleblower'_dies_in_Swiss_jail

The link must've been changed when the article was archived. Don't be mad.

[boppers]

14. That one's munged, too.

I'm thinking that DU's URL filter is messing with it. Tinyurl (or other shortener) version?

[Octafish]

15. Sorry, boppers. It's messed up for me now. Try this...

Here's Bit.ly URL:

http://bit.ly/byZTou

Then, there's the home page:

http://austrianindependent.com/

It's on the right, scroll down on the first screen.

Then there's the GOOGLE:

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=%27Austrian+tax+evasion+whistleblower%27+dies+in+Swiss+jail

If that doesn't work, please try putting the title into GOOGLE News:

As Jeeves said, "There's always a way."

[boppers]

17. Bit.ly worked...

Thanks!

[boppers]

16. So, from what I've gathered:

People were stealing bank data, and then selling it to governments... for a price.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6902PT20101001

"A number of compact discs said to contain confidential data on tax evaders have been offered to German authorities.

The most prominent case resulted in German investigators searching Credit Suisse offices in the country in July after analyzing a disc bought from a whistleblower said to have the names of 1,500 alleged tax cheats."

That's not whistle blowing in my book.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. 42 years old, huh?

Seems s bit suspect to me.