have to worry about the confidentiality of their bank accounts in january two thousand and eleven rudolf elmer gave two discs to julian a son the disks contained information on the bank accounts of several thousand customers it was suggested that the people mentioned on the disks were dodging taxes. do you know it. i say that again. in order to thank investigative and making a decision on a elma's actions have brought him face to face with a swiss court of law the former bank employee may face serious prison time for releasing the confidential data. one of the journalists investigating theft the secret banking information is yen's brown bush of the financial times the first scandal of this kind broken germany in two thousand and seven the german government had acquired a disk from anonymous individuals it contained information about germans hiding their money in foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes in germany. there were seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german names on it some of them had to go to court all of them had to pay money back in the year two thousand and eight the germa