Angela goes a-hunting

Published on 2 February 2010

Clerk to Merkel : "Pilfering data ain't pretty pretty"

Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that Germany "must get possession of data" on German suspected of siphoning money off into Swiss bank accounts. This could include paying in order to obtain the list of names stolen by a former computer engineer working at the Swiss branch of British bank HSBC.

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