Financial whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, who helped expose
American tax evaders hiding assets in Swiss banks, has little doubt the
Panama leaks scandal was crafted and orchestrated by the CIA.
In
an exclusive interview from Munich, Birkenfeld told CNBC on Tuesday
that the leak of over 11 million documents from Panama-based law firm
Mossack Fonseca is most likely not a whistleblower job, but rather an “intelligence agency operation.”“The CIA I'm sure is behind this, in my opinion,” Birkenfeld said, citing as evidence selective management of the information exposed to the public domain that “doesn't hurt the US in any shape or form.”
“The very fact that we see all these names surface that are the direct quote-unquote enemies of the United States: Russia, China, Pakistan, Argentina… and we don't see one US name. Why is that? Quite frankly, my feeling is that this is certainly an intelligence agency operation,” CNBC cited Birkenfeld as saying.
“That's wrong. And there's something seriously sinister behind this,” Birkenfeld said.
The former banker acknowledged that years ago, when he worked in a Swiss bank, he was aware that Mossack Fonseca was an integral part of a worldwide offshore financial network used to avoid domestic taxes.
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