sports officials from over 50 countries have met in moscow to brainstorm joint programs and strategies as parts of the 78th general assembly and congress of the international military sports council. we discussed the events with the chief of the d. r c delegation. he said that meeting as a great achievement for russia to my partner for this is, this is, candace, this is the 1st time i've been to such an event in russia. russia is a great power in sports, in general, a military sports in particular. oh no, we have come here and this is a great achievement power with another rundown of all the latest. thanks so much for watching. ah, western countries like to say or like to believe that they are far more sophisticated in 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 now 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 whistle blowers . 2 2 2 2 2 in a previous episode of the program, we told you about bradley burke and felt the courageous whistleblower who not only exposed financial wrong doing 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 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 courts 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 on the, on 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 whistle blown 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 governments 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, john? well, to give you a little bit of background. first. i've been working as finance control for about 35 years. and i was quite familiar with multiple currencies work and in 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 that call my hi my attention. i noticed that for the 1st time in history the, the dollar sign below paraphrase this is frame. that was august 2011. it hit rock bottom. the door at one should be worth $2.00 to switch springs.

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 actual economic forces of supply demand, nor did they result in trade in balance between the different countries, such a tiny country, you know it's got small exports compared to the usa. so using my financial background on 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 inside 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 training, i detected that these currency rates were being manipulated by major vines and traders. at the same time,

swiss law firms were springing up everywhere in zurich. i noticed they straight away, they were called wealth managers. family. well, these law firms enabled massive wealth transfer for high net were individual investors, with from dollars. lawyers worked with banks on how to do just our investors include armors, can whole bank accounts anywhere in the world. we count individuals, i travel a lot in my life and you just cannot open bank accounts very easily nowadays, but can dollars and investors can, especially the elite investors. so my concern was that, did the valuation of the dollar would now start damaging the purchasing power of poor nations, you know, nations with weaker 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 the comment economy invest age 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 regulators that they should investigate who was responsible for manipulating these currencies. there was clear manipulation. so

i sent all of my findings and detailed assessment along with substantial correspondence to regulators. that was that she s t c. the s c a in the u. k. number c f t c is the commodity futures trading in the usa, and i sent it to the swiss regulator. the commission on some local government departments. now for 2 years i reached out to these, including the i am asked the case treasury fraud offices and all even m p 's. i included in my days, explanations, evidence to support my assessment, the banks and traders when manipulating the currency markets. and i shared these communications with regulators, an important media overlaps even russian television, r t. bloomberg. the guardian and the international business times i

described how bang seduce high leverage, high frequency algorithmic trade. 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 it here. and the, the owner of our company was a family member of the bank, julius there. and they worked with u. b. s. credits with j. p. morgan, i'm sure it's angel bank. later i emailed this owner some data asking him why his partner was the head of the essay. now the in the face, the national futures authority in the usa. 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 and 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 the gear 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, 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, us court 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 wasn't even allowed to see me or bring me show more here. so after 48 hours on released in hank house. can you believe in ankle? and the judge be deadly apologize. apologized to me and said,

the swiss won 2 extra, only 2 switzerland to serve a 3 year prison sentence for committing crimes against personal, warmer violations of privacy and secrecy. and put under arrest. then of 5 months. house arrest. i have to stay on the island. one put under house arrest. did i know that i was what i was up against the service? i'd rather say, did i know that the prosecutors could be so indicative, brutal? you know, these prosecutors, some of these prosecutors are just rogues. i mean, they're roaming around europe grabbing people for things like speech. i mean, this is incredible. so they, they switch, prosecutors, we'll a normal power and they're in switzerland, the prosecutor, jury,

and judge and 95 percent of the cases, the criminal cases and civil don't like prosecutors alone. there's no judge. so this hire a prosecutor that had already interrogated and search my ex wife's apart and insure it with no warrant. my ex wife insurance 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 renews. $40000.00 from my bank account and start hunting me across europe. she instruct foreign judiciary police how they should treat me on madeira. now look, i've, i've heard 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 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. the junk 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 ah, ah

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no, but i don't know what i see if he wrote, you must simply hasn't come here though political more than as what i see is great and it is a, it's a political those muslim a welcome back to the whistleblowers. i'm john kerry are go. we're speaking with international banking whistleblower, trevor kitchen. trevor, thanks for staying with us. you won your case in 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 on that by sending 2 letters to the swiss general attorney describing switzerland's behavior as an inhumane and degrading it was a breach of civil rights he wrote. and he said it's politically motivated because of my whistle blowing activities. he asked them to promptly withdraw their warrant and terminate all criminal proceedings against the swiss attorney general. she loved both of his letters. we've never got a reply. my portuguese lawyers in the court already at the supreme court

had characterized the swiss prosecutor's 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 lived here and we felt threatened we, we didn't feel secure in europe. so my wife and i decided to leave europe and had back to south africa where i used to live and all my family and well, stone in south africa. so i fell, i, you know, i wanted to go there and my last few years there on 72 now homeless. anyway, my u. k. lawyer, to advise me to keep a copy of the supreme court decision just in case i didn't stop anywhere in europe . i did, and my wife for me a few times she said look, we're going to fly down to south africa. we've got to 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 with you. i did that. and i was in for the shock of my life because trans transit in schiphol airport. i'm instantly re a russian on the exact same source, warm dodge should ignore portugal for judge's decision. they confiscated my pulse for photographed fingerprinted me for a 2nd time, 16 months. they stripped me, make it and put me in solitary confinement. i wasn't allowed any medic, my own medication was forbidden. i asked why my, for my medication. they said, well, you know, we have to worry about drugs or could i at least 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 denied my medicine and i was therefore, in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in this dutch prison that skip all 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 room. the dutch let me out. after 14 days the judges, they were shot. they were actually shocked to see me in front of them writing the mail complaints to alerting corruption. i couldn't believe it. so they said, well, the dutch prosecutor, once 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 dutch earlier. the dutch lawyer told me that the courts are so busy with serious crime cases that it could take years before this extradition birthday is coming through. 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 exhibition is not a criminal offense. when i thought about that, because we couldn't afford this $3000.00 euro rent each month. so we escape holland by road. when i got back to my destination, i found my lawyer and he said, you're free here. you're free. unimportant. so i goes, the dutch lawyer sends me an email. she warned me about if i ever enter any dutch in play anywhere in the world,

i'll be re arrested. the dutch prosecutor refuses 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 harsh or 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, abused 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 nowadays. and i would also warm that if they

want to speak truth to power in switzerland or country that now seems to regard itself as master of the world. they need to remember that sis, lawyers and prosecutors are good at twisting truth. they are naturally, in my opinion, the naturally born liars because that's what they i'd ask people here, any whistleblower, go and read. john grisham books. don't trust any law enforces or the leaders who give these people privilege powers to attack public speech. i'd say they need to remember that there's no a bias corpus lights 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 and politics are replaced with honest leaders. they need to be aware when traveling in the shang, again 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 wrestling. 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 read in listening to

a lot of wishing blowers in switzerland. i've spoken to them. i've read their stories about corruption in the prosecution shield. this is about the type of switch brutality that goes on in the source police force. there are many people there, they have the highest detention center, detentions of, and they happens, sorry. overall, rephrase or switzerland has the highest percentage in the world of detain eve that i've 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, likes with you on especially switzerland. what is she?

and i'd like to finish by quoting something from professor roger scuse. and 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, curiosity when you've been watching the whistleblowers. we'll see you next time. ah . 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

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