cross country, including the famous freedom convoy which started in ottawa as a riley of truckers against vaccination and culminated an emergency measures announced by the government. the recent remarks marked a social media storm at using the canadian prime minister of hypocrisy. right, he did not force anyone to get vaccinated, he only unjustly fired them financially attacked them. persecuted them, insulted them, denied them basic rights, prevented them from travelling, et cetera. so tolerant justin trudeau who implemented some of the most brutal vaccine mandates on earth and punished any one who opposed it. now claims that he never forced the shot on any one. when politicians can beat the truth, they try to join. you don't let them holy. just in trudeau, the man who locked down his country, stopped unvaccinated from attending work,

shops, restaurants, pubs, hospital schools, flights or even driving trucks across the border says i never forced any one to get the vaccine. earlier we spoke to independent political analyst alessandra bruno, who says that people were jailed for protesting against folk vaccines in canada. completely unsurprised because i am not sure whether he's absolutely convinced of his own position on this. he, he might actually believe it. who knows these days it's very difficult to distinguish a sincere politician from an insincere one. he did not force anyone in his mind. of course, people were arrested were in jail or because they protested the code with vaccines and some of the related for restrictions. the most famous episodes here were involved the truck protests that took place throughout canada.

but especially in order and toronto, which were concluded with the entry of the army, i don't blame to go alone. i see to do as a symptom of a wider problem that affected the west and continues to affect the west. in general, i see the same syndrome as having taken over with regards to the west position on the war and ukraine, china and a number of other issues they are acting in unison and they are acting incorrectly . i honestly don't see him as even thinking his own thoughts. he's not conveying his own thoughts here. it says if many leaders in the west and perhaps to do more than most are acting out the script of someone else, the script written elsewhere. that's a rap on the hour and coming up a whistleblower who has been harassed by the government and it's banking sector

tells this story. next on the west of laura. thanks for tuning and speak with ah, western countries like to say or like to believe that they are far more sophisticated than those countries that are still developing the west after all is supposed to be made up of countries that respect the rule of law. but we whistleblowers know that's just not true. you're just as likely to be harassed, surveilled, arrested, and ruined financially and personally in the so called, developed countries as you are in the developing ones. and in banking, switzerland is one of the worst. i'm john kerry. aku welcome to the whistleblowers .

2 2 2 2 in a previous episode of the program we told you about bradley berkin felt the courageous whistleblower who not only exposed financial wrongdoing, money laundering, and income tax evasion at the banking giant u. b. s. but he brought down international money laundering and income tax evasion, period. today we're going to tell you about another courageous whistleblower in banking, who has been harassed and molested by the swiss government and banking sector for more than a decade. trevor kitchen exposed a multi 1000000000 pounds sterling currency scandal. as a result, his reputation was damaged and just 2 years ago, he was charged with defaming the swiss banking sector. facing several years in prison, he was saved only when the portuguese court elected to not extradite him. trevor welcome to the show. we're glad to have you. well, thanks for inviting me,

john. it's a pleasure to meet you and beyond your show. trevor, in a funny way, your story is the reverse of so many other whistleblowers. your whistle blowing was clear cut. you blew the whistle on what was really an international banking conspiracy to manipulate foreign currency exchange. i'm going to ask you about that in a moment. what makes your story so different? is your, your whistling was obviously a public service and you were clearly reporting a crime. but your life went off the rails for more than a decade because of the very powerful government and organizations that went after you. let's begin with your actual whistle blowing. tell us what you saw when that was and how you reported it. okay, well, to give you a little bit of background 1st. i've been working as finance control for about 35 years. and i was quite familiar with multiple currencies work and multiple

currencies. that the companies that i worked out, we traded in in those. and when i retired, i decided i wanted to supplement my pension. so in february, 2008, something happened. i call my hi my intention. i noticed that for the 1st time in history that the dollar saying the low power fee of a swiss franc, that was august 2011, it hit rock bottom the door and one should been worth 2 dollars to swiss francs 90. it now only bought $0.72 and between 201-2011, the swiss franc and strengthened 60 percent against the dollar. so the swiss franc was just going up and up and up, and the dollar was being systematically destroyed in the process,

sterling and euro, they were not doing too much better themselves. anyway, these monumental ships did not reflect natural economic forces of supply and demand. nor did they result in trade imbalances between the different countries, such a lot of the timing country. you know, it's got small exports compared to the usa. so using my financial background and my forensic skills, i started to assemble data. i charted market movements, we calculated the amount of money that would be needed to achieve these colossal movements that were going on. i wasn't an insight banker, i want to make that perfectly clear for your readers. sorry for your years. but after extensive independent analysis, that was my own independent says that i am full that was informed by decades of

experience. i was able to detect after painstaking imbalances that they were able to get away with this such a long time. because it was difficult to determine what was really happening. so based on the expertise i had developed over these decades and training experience in trading, i detected that these currency rates were being manipulated by major violence traders. at the same time, swiss law firms were springing up everywhere in zurich. i noticed the straight away, they were called wealth managers. family. well, these law firms enabled massive wealth transfer for high net were individual investors on anglican dollars. lawyers worked with banks on how to do just investors include armors,

can whole bank accounts anywhere in the world. we count individuals i've, i've, i travel a lot in my life and you just cannot open. bank accounts are usually nowadays, but can dollars and investors can, especially the elite investors. so my concern was that the, the valuation of the dollar would now start damaging the purchasing power of poor nations. you know, nations when we are economies. so these banks were, i came to the conclusion, these banks were massively short in the us dollars and sterling for that matter, for the benefit of their investors and compared to the rest of the world. this, this was a common economy, a vast stage, remainder unscathed by the economic crisis. now,

how i reported it, ah, i was living in a very secretive switching. and i knew i was put myself in my family a great risk. but after discovering warning signs of currency manipulation, in august 2011, i blew the whistle loudon tear to all the regulators in the usa, switzerland, and further afield and the u. k. i was on a passionate campaign to convince these regular is that they should investigate who was responsible for manipulating these concepts. there was clear manipulation. so i sent all of my findings and detailed assessment along with substantial correspondence to regulators. that was that she f t c the f c a in the u. k. number c f t c is commodities future trading in the usa and i sent it to the swiss regulator, the commission and some other government departments. now for 2 years,

i reached out to these, including the i am asked the case treasury fraud officers and all, even m p 's. i included in my data explanations of evidence to support my assessment. the banks and traders were manipulating the currency markets. and i shared these communications with regulators, an important media outlets, even russian television, r t. bloomberg. the guardian and the international is miss times i described how bang seduce high leverage, high frequency algorithmic traded for the 1st time. nobody had heard of that word algorithmic trade. anyway, where was i trading? i was trading at a small company in switzerland called a lambda if i can mention that here. and the, the owner of that company was

a family member of the bank, julius there. and they work with u. b. s. credits with j. p. morgan. i'm sure it's angel bank. later i emailed the owner some data asking him why his partner was the head of the say. now the in the face ratio futures authority in the us. and he was on the head of their currency advisory committee. now the n f i n s k are empowered by the c s t c to monitor or report on currencies. the owner came straight back to me and accuse me of liable. and threatened to take criminal action. it turned out that you are real enemies. those who wished you actual harm were in switzerland 2 years ago at the age of 70. you were abruptly arrested in

portugal, taken to solitary confinement in a maximum security prison, denied year medication, given ill fitting and filthy clothes, and denied access to an attorney and an interpreter for a period. one portuguese prison guard told you this treatment was not coming from them, but from the swiss government. what was that like? did you know what you'd be up against from this with? no, john, i had no idea. i was on. i retired on mature island with my wife. it was cold and they took me to this, so it was dirty. it was cold and i had to sleep on a slab of concrete to manage. there was no heating, i was on the lot of water water. it was scary because, you know, in europe there's no a bad, they s corp was rights. they don't exist in switzerland, nor europe. and,

and it seemed to me like the, the people on madeira of these judiciary place were looking at me as some sort of dangerous criminal. i wasn't even given miranda rights. there was no interpreter in the beginning. there was no attorney given to me and nothing. and the rest one was in portuguese. my wife was needing to see me or bring me show more here. so after 48 hours on released in hank house, kelley blue in ankle. and the judge be deadly apologize. apologize to me, said the swiss won 2 extra, only 2 switzerland to serve a 3 year prison sentence, but committing crimes against personal warmer and violation to privacy secrecy. and put under arrest then of 5 months. house arrest. i have to stay on the island and put under house arrest. did i

know that i was what i was up against the search? i'd rather say, did i know that swift prosecutors could be so indicative, brutal? you know, these prosecutors in some of these prosecutors are just rogues, i mean, they're rolling around europe grabbing people for things like speech. i mean, this is incredible. so they, they switch, prosecutors wheeled a normal hours and they pin switzerland, the prosecutor, jury, and judge and 95 percent of the cases, the criminal cases civil don't by prosecutors alone. there's no judge. so this hire a prosecutor that had already interrogated and search my ex wife's apartment insurance with no warm my ex wife in jewelry has

a pacemaker she 70 years of age. we've been divorced. 35 years is prosecutor her interrogated, trying to find out where i was. then she removes $40000.00 from my bank account, start hunting me across the euro. she instruct foreign judiciary police how they should treat me on madeira. now look, i, i for some horror stories about prosecutors and please using psycho logical torture on their captives especially foreigners 90 percent of the criminals in switzerland for 90 percent. that's difficult for me to comprehend this type of the moral and national goal. i think it's insane. people who report corruption wrongdoing and not criminals. john, i'm not a criminal. swish. have weapon lies the justice system. they jump jurisdictions to

get even whistleblowers who report corruption. we're speaking with international banking whistleblower, trevor kitchen. we have a lot more to ask him, especially about his work to remain out of the clutches of swiss authorities. so stay tuned. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ah, it's done. lord, stream one and 2 were destroyed by great britain. it's a tremendous opportunity to once for all remove the dependence on russian energy. the war in ukraine is all. mistakes were made and i have been elected as a leader of my party, angel prime minister in pot to fix them,

be face the highest taxation sig, stobel. this year alone, we have provided 2300000000 pounds of military support. and we will do the same again next year. a new title because that's the only way. it's a relative, but it's i know it's, i think it was kind of ah ah, welcome back to the whistleblowers. i'm john kerry. aku, we're speaking with international banking whistleblower. trevor kitchen. trevor, thanks for staying with us. you won your case and portugal before a panel of 3 judges, but the portuguese prosecutor appealed that. so it remained hanging over your head . you were warned that you would be charged in switzerland with defamation and with violating privacy and bank secrecy laws. and you were facing 3 years in prison. the

truth is, the swiss were embarrassed and perhaps humiliated that you had called them out publicly. you would aired their dirty laundry. we know that this is a swiss tactic against financial whistleblowers, u. b. s. whistleblower, brad burke and fell had gone up against the same thing that you did. but you also won your appeal and you were permitted to leave portugal. what happened next? i had by now i had a u. k lawyer and he sent a complaint to the portuguese ministry of foreign affairs. and he followed up all night by sending 2 letters to the swiss general of germany describing switzerland behavior as inhumane and degrading. it was a breach of civil rights he wrote. and he said it's politically motivated because of my whistle blowing and activities. he asked them to promptly withdraw their

warrant and terminate or criminal proceedings against the swiss attorney general. she loved both of these letters. we've never got a reply. my portuguese lawyers in the courts already and the supreme court had characterized the swiss prosecutors. behavior had political oppression or refreshing rather, and persecution, that is absolutely contrary to european law. it's an abuse of power or personal revenge. anyway, at that point, my wife and i still live here, i'm, we felt threatened we, we didn't feel secure in europe. so my wife and i decided to leave europe and had by just south africa where i used to live and all my family and passed on in charlotte, africa. so i fell, i, you know, i want to go there and live my last few years there on 72 homeless. anyway, my

u. k. lawyer, to advise me to keep a copy of the supreme court decision just in case i stopped anywhere in europe. i did, and my wife for me a few times she said look, if we're going to fly down to south africa, we'd better go direct because you're not wanted in portugal anymore. we better not go anywhere near the year. so my lawyer said, take the supreme court decision i did up and i was in for the shock of my life because trans transit in schiphol airport. i'm instantly re arrested on the exact same sworn the dot should ignore quarter goals for judge's decision. they confiscated my pulse for photographed fingerprinted me for a 2nd time. 16 months they strictly they put me in solitary confinement. i

wasn't allowed any medic, my own medication was been i asked why my people, my own medication. they said, well, you know where we have to worry about drugs and everything. i suppose, could i please get a book to read from my suitcase? no. in case you got drugs on the pages. i thought what the heck is going on here anyway, that was something else. so i'm not denied my medicine and i was there for in solitary confinement 23 hours a day. in this dutch prison, it schiphol airport near skippable airport. and i, i had a phone call in the room there, and i was allowed to speak with my wife by phone, and she visited me twice, i think. anyway, it eventually she managed to find a 22 square meter hotel. the dutch let me out after 14 days, the judges based they were shot, they were actually shocked to see me in front of them. so writing email complains

to, you know, alerting corruption. they couldn't believe it. so they said, well, the dutch prosecutor wants your passport. so i had to leave that with the dutch prosecutor, and i had to report to the police station once a week, and they gave me a junior. the dutch lawyer told me that the courts was so busy with serious crime cases that it could take years before this extradition birthday is coming true. and i have to sit there for years. but then she quickly told me something she said, you know it's, it's not a crime. if you would escape this, actually she is not a criminal offense. when i thought of all that, because we couldn't afford this $3000.00 euro rent each month. so we escaped column by road. when i got back to my destination, i found my lawyer and he said,

you are free here. you're free. unimportant. so i have those. the dutch lawyer sends me an email. she warned me about if i ever enter any dutch and play anywhere in the world, i'll be re arrested. the dutch prosecutor refuses to return my passport. and now the u. k. of refuse to give me a new passport for the last 9 months. so i have no passport. so horror. sure. the f b i whistleblower jane turner who also works with the national whistleblower center here in the united states has called you one of the bravest and most important whistleblowers ever to come out of the banking sector. what would you say to others in international banking, who are considering blowing the whistle on waste, fraud, abuse, or illegality? you know, how high the price can be. what would you tell them?

well, i would tell them to forget about trying to get exposure through the or, or to reveal any of this through the media because the media just don't help the mainstream media don't help people with truth nowadays. and i would also warn them that if they want to speak truth to power in switzerland, a country that now seems to regard itself as master of the world. they need to remember that crystal errors and prosecutors are good at twisting truth. they are naturally, in my opinion, naturally borne liars, because that's what they did. i'd ask people here, any whistleblower, go and read. john grisham books. don't trust any law enforcers or the leaders who give these people privilege hours to attack public speech. i'd say they need to remember that there's no a biased corpus writes anywhere in europe, especially switzerland. and it seems to me that the european benchmark justice

is now become double standards and hypocrisy. i tell people not to bother wasting time, blowing the whistle with incorrigible officials because nothing, nothing will ever change until these people who are running are laws of politics are replaced with honest leaders. they need to be where, when traveling in the shang and to this is where i am now because a lot of people don't realize this. but in the usa and the u. k, you don't need an id to go traveling from state to state or going into hotels, but in europe, in the shouldn't get one or every policeman. and every hotel receptions is a border control. and no one is safe from this use abusive arrest long.

what's next for you? trevor? many whistleblowers speak, teach lecture and write about their experiences. many try to be something of a sentinel of the public trust. what have you been doing since leaving portugal? well, i've been reading, listening to a lot of whistle blowers in switzerland. i've spoken to them, i read their stories about corruption in the prosecution shield. this is an about the type of switch, brutality that goes on in this was police force. there are many people there. they have the highest detention center of the tensions of and they have to, sorry, overall, rephrase switzerland has the highest percentage in the world of detainees that have not been put on trial. there is no trouble. and so what i'd like to do for the future is i'd like to try to help those poor people

in switzerland on other places that have no voice to reveal the truth about what really goes on in these. in some of these places like switzerland, especially switzerland. what is she? and i'd like to finish by quoting something from professor roger. scuse him. if i my he says the common law tells us that the ordinary person is in charge of the law. not the people who are there pretending to impose it on him or her. that's all the time we have for you today. i'd like to thank our guest, trevor kitchen, and i would like to thank our viewers for joining us. mahatma gandhi once said that truth never damages a cause. that is just, he was right. speaking the truth take strength and courage. it's not always easy to do. and sometimes we don't even understand where that strength comes from. but

without whistleblowers, like trevor kitchen, the world would be a far different place. i'm john kerry, aka. when you've been watching the whistleblowers, we'll see you next time. ah. 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 ah, what truly motivates nato? is it strategic interests in jail, political positioning? or is it ideology in a pathological hatred of russia? i will let the viewers decide, but one thing is, certain, the alliance has put its very existence on the line. you can take that to the bank with

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