WikiLeaks is planning a full disclosure of confidential bank details of about 2,000 prominent individuals supplied by a former Swiss banker in an attempt to expose 'mass tax evasion,' Julian Assange said in London Monday. The founder of the self-proclaimed whistleblowing website, who is currently on bail in Britain pending extradition proceedings to Sweden on alleged sex offences, said the information would be thoroughly checked before publication in a few weeks' time. 'Once we have looked at the data ... there will be full revelation,' Assange told a news conference in London, where two discs containing the details were handed to him by Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker turned whistleblower. Elmer, a former executive at the Cayman Islands branch of Julius Baer Bank, one of Switzerland's top private banks, said he was releasing the information to 'educate society.' He said he wanted to expose the 'mass tax evasion' before the start of his own trial in Switzerland on Wednesday for breaking Swiss secrecy laws.
