Bradley Birkenfeld

Charles Bradley Birkenfeld ( born February 26, 1965 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American bank manager. He worked for the Swiss bank UBS as an asset manager. It provided U.S. authorities the first evidence that his former employer, UBS had helped from Switzerland rich Americans systematically in the evasion of taxes: 2007 Birkenfeld gave the U.S. Internal Revenue Service Internal Revenue Service documents and information about it. In the aftermath of the UBS threatened in the United States filed a lawsuit, which may be the end for the Bank could have meant. 2009 paid by the Bank for a comparison of a penance of 780 million dollars to the United States. They also announced - with the consent of the Swiss authorities - the names of about 4,500 suspected American tax evaders out.

2010 had Birkenfeld for tax fraud in prison, he had the billionaire and real estate dealer Igor Olenicoff, founder of Olen Properties in Lighthouse Point, Florida, helped by to around 200 million dollars to the U.S. tax authorities to accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein hide. Birkenfeld came after 31 months in prison free on 1 August 2012. Shortly thereafter, he received a record reward of $ 104 million from the so-called whistleblower program of the Internal Revenue Service.

Birkenfeld joined in the process of the United States against the Swiss banks as a key witness. He probably contributed substantially to weaken the Swiss banking secrecy at and to change from a black to a white money strategy of the financial center. Meanwhile, Black money flows often not in Switzerland but in Singapore or in other tax havens.