REFLEKSI: PYM Presiden RI: "Apakah BIN bersedia dan mau diberikan service 
seperti yang diperoleh CIA untuk menyelidiki uang-uang korupsi yang 
disembunyikan oleh para petinggi negara RI dan konco-konco mereka di bank-bank 
di Swiss?"


http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Switzerland/10074689.html

Published: 10/14/2006 12:00 AM (UAE)


Banks 'broke law' by tipping off CIA
AP

 
Bern: Swiss banks violated the law by passing banking information on to the US 
Central Intelligence Agency, the country's top data protection official said 
yesterday.

The banks, usually known for safeguarding the privacy of their clients, should 
have informed customers making international money transfers via the 
Belgium-based SWIFT service that their data could be passed on to third 
parties, Hanspeter Thuer said.

Just the possibility of the data being leaked should have been grounds enough 
to warn customers, he said.

After the September 11 attacks, SWIFT largely complied with US requests for 
banking information in its anti-terror investigations.

SWIFT, or the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, 
operates a secure electronic messaging service used by some 7,800 financial 
institutions to make international money transfers worth $6 trillion (Dh22 
trillion) a day.

Thuer said the issue was whether information could be passed on to states whose 
data protection laws are not as stringent as those in Switzerland.

Standardisation

Referring to a report by a Belgian privacy commission, Thuer urged that a 
solution be negotiated by which US laws and European data protection rules are 
standardised.

Last month, Switzerland's Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz said giving the CIA 
access to the SWIFT information did not infringe Swiss sovereignty or the 
country's banking secrecy rules

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