hi, i'm rick sanchez, and i'm here to plead with you whatever you do, you do not watch my new show. seriously. why watch something that so different. my little opinions that you won't get anywhere else work of it please. if you have the state department, the c, i a weapons makers, multi $1000000.00 corporations, choose your fax for you. go ahead. i changed and whatever you do, don't watch my show. stay main street because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direct impact. but again, you probably don't want to watch it because it might just change the way things a in 1935 fascists, italy, led by dictator benito mussolini. decided to expand its colonial empire in africa

and take over ethiopia. by that time, ethiopia was the only fully independent state on the continent. back in 1896. its inhabitants were able to defeat the italian colonists and defend their independence. since then, rome craved for revenge for the humiliating defeat. in the morning of october, 3, 1935. without any announcement, the fascists attacked ethiopia and bombarded it most severely. ethiopian armed forces fought courageously, but the brutality of the italians knew no bounds. they use not only massive bombing attacks on civilians, but also chemical weapons, toxic gases. this change the course of the war. as a result of the occupation of ethiopia by the fascist 760000 people were

killed. the capture of the african state was committed with europe stats at approval. britain and france recognized the annexation, given the green light to further fascist expansion in the world and paving the way for the outbreak of world war 2. 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, survey jailed, 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 be 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 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, john? 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 in multiple currencies that the companies that i worked out,

we traded in in those. and when i retired, i decided i want to supplement my pension. so in february, 2008, something happened that call my hi my attention. i notice that for the 1st time in history, the dollar saying the low power fees of the swiss franc, that was august 2011. it hit rock bottom the door and one should be worth $2.00 to switch francs, 90 it now only bull $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 demand. nor did they result in trade imbalances 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 calculated the amount of money that would be needed to achieve these colossal movements that were going on. i also had insight banker. i want to make that perfectly clear for your readers. sorry for your. ready 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 that straight away, they were called wealth managers. family, well, these law firms enabled massive wealth transfer. high net were individual investors. and the can dollars. lawyers work with banks on how to do just our 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, did the valuation of the dollar would now start damaging the purchasing power of poor nations? you know, nations when we are economists. so these banks were, i came to the conclusion that 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 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 and further afield and the you. so i sent all of my future and trading in the. ready usa and i sent it to deluding the i am you case, treasury fraud offices and all even m p 's. i included in my data 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 is miss times i described how bang seduce high leverage high frequency algorithmic trade. so 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, coral, and 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 say, now the in the face racial 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 your 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, take into solitary confinement. in a maximum security prison, denied your 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 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 corpus lights. they don't exist in switzerland, nor europe. and, and it seemed to me like the, the people on my dear, all of these judiciary place were looking at me as or 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 the show more care. so after 48 hours on released in hank house, can you believe in ankle and the judge immediately apologize. apologize to me and said the swiss won 2 extra calling me to switzerland to serve a tree year prison sentence for committing crimes against personal warmer

violations of privacy and secrecy. on put under arrest, then the 5 months house arrest. i have to stay on the island on put under house arrest. did i know that i was did what i was up against the swiss? i'd rather say, did i know that swift prosecutors could be so indicative, brutal? you know, these prosecutors, 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, in switzerland, the prosecutor, jury, and judge. and 95 percent of the cases, the criminal cases don't by prosecutors alone. there's no judge.

so this hiron prosecutor that had already interrogated and search my apartment insurance with no one. my ex wife in georgia 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 renewed $40000.00 from my bank account. start pumping the across europe. she instruct foreign judiciary please, how they should treat me on madeira. a lot. i've. i've heard some horror stories about just prosecutors and please use, in fact, the 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, laura criminal. the swiss have weapon lies the justice system. they jumped jurisdictions to get even with 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, to come to the russians state little narrative. i stayed as i phone and the most landscape div asking him now knocking something up

with an assistant babel. this middle keys on line is 2000 speedy. one else with we will van in the european union, the kremlin media machine, the state on crush us today, and split or t sputnik. even our video agency, roughly all planned on youtube and pinterest, and we put the question, did you think it would cost with me? we truly motivates nato. is it strategic interests in geopolitical positioning? or is it ideology in a pathological hatred of russia, alliances put its very existence on the line? you can take that to the bank,

but there will be home with visual and would love them, which is what you and bank secrecy laws. and you were facing 3 years them out publicly. you would aired their dirty laundry. we know that this summer, brad berkin felt had gone up against the same thing that you did. but you also won your appeal and you were permitted to leave portugal. i had by now i had or you pay a lawyer and he sent a complaint to the courts. he's ministry of foreign affairs. and he followed up all marked by sending 2 letters to the swiss general attorney describing switzerland's behavior. as because of my whistle blower in 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 live here island. 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 live my last few years there. i'm 72 now homeless. anyway,

my u. k. lawyer advised me to keep a copy of the supreme court decision just in case i'm stop anywhere in europe. i did don 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 union. so my lawyer said, take the supreme court decision i did when i was in for the shock of my life, because trans transit in schiphol airport. i'm instantly re arrested on the exact same swarm dot should ignore quarter goals for judge's decision. they confiscated my pulse for photographed fingerprinted me for a 2nd time, 16 months they stripped me. they put me in solitary confinement. i wasn't allowed any medic, my own medication was been i asked why am i doing my own medication?

they said, well, you know, we have to worry about drugs and we've been able, 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 these are denied my medicine and i was therefore, in solitary confinement 23 hours a day. in this dutch prison, there 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 judge is based, they were shot, they were actually shocked to see me in front of them. so writing the mail complaints 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 dutch earlier, and the dutch lawyer told me that the courts was so busy with serious crime cases that it could take years before this. extradition is coming through and i have to sit there for years. but then she quickly told me something she said, you know, it's not a crime if you would escape this, actually she is not a criminal offense when i thought about a lot, because we couldn't afford this 3000 euro rent each month. so we escape column 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 and 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 for 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, 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 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 system, lawyers and prosecutors are good at twisting truth. they are naturally, in my opinion, naturally born 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 enforces or the leaders who give these people privilege hours to attend 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 omission leaders. they need to be where when traveling in the shane, get 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 shank and one or every policeman and every hotel receptions is border control and no one is safe from this use abusive restaurant. what's next for you? trevor? many whistleblowers speak teach lecture and write about their experiences. many try

to be something of a sent in all of the public trust. what have you been doing since leaving portugal? well, i've been reading into a lot of wishing blowers in switzerland. i've spoken to them. i've read their stories about short 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, detentions of, and they happens, sorry, overall, rephrase switzerland has the highest percentage in the world of detainees that have not been put on trial. there is no tron. 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, was she and i'd like to finish by quoting or something from professor roger. scuse him. if i like 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

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