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Wednesday, 12 September, 2012
'Reward may spur more whistleblowers'
Bradley Birkenfeld, a former employee at Swiss bank UBS, has accepted a record-breaking reward of $104 million. The Whistleblower Office at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service said he had provided comprehensive information that was “exceptional in both its breadth and depth” about secret accounts. World Radio Switzerland has learned from a source with knowledge of the case that Birkenfeld also intends to pursue further reward claims in court. WRS’s Alex Helmick asks Jean-Christophe Schwaab, president of the French-speaking section of the Swiss Association of Bank Employees and an MP in the canton of Vaud, whether this will spur more whistleblowers in the Swiss banking sector:
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