‘Traitor’ Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer gave tax files to Wikileaks

A Swiss banker accused of revealing details of tax-dodging clients on WikiLeaks is a traitor who should be sentenced to three and a half years in prison, prosecutors said.

Rudolf Elmer, formerly employed by Julius Baer Group Ltd as chief operating officer of a Cayman Islands unit, “calls himself a whistleblower, thus dressing himself in a cloak of legitimacy,” prosecutor Peter Giger said in closing arguments.

“He is a pure traitor who fought the bank again and again under the pretence of humanitarian ideas.”