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In 2009 this Franco-Italian systems engineer for HSBC's Swiss private bank handed over a list of more than 100,000 HSBC clients to the French Finance Minister at the time, Christine Lagarde.
"I have commenced action against HSBC in Monaco, London and Guernsey and, pending the result of the audit, there will be other procedures against certain HSBC clients," he said.
"Only a very small number of HSBC clients are concerned.
He was one of a group of convicted HSBC clients.
As a result, Switzerland will disclose information on just a handful of the HSBC clients.
So far, £135m has been recovered from HSBC clients in the UK.
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The HSBC client data were supplied by Herve Falciani, a former IT employee of HSBC's Swiss private bank, HSBC said.
In January, federal prosecutors indicted a former HSBC client, Vaibhav Dahake, who was born in India and became a naturalized American citizen in 2006.
The UK tax office said it had brought in 135 million pounds ($205 million) in tax payments, interest charges and penalties after working through the HSBC client list.
HSBC knew clients were breaking the law - so why didn't the bank report them and why haven't the tax evaders been prosecuted?
The cash was then taken round to HSBC's respectable clients in the French capital.
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