{"id":247,"date":"2015-02-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/well-take-the-money-but-not-the-passport-what-the-hsbc-swiss-leaks-reveal-about-africas-high-rollers\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T07:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:06:52","slug":"well-take-the-money-but-not-the-passport-what-the-hsbc-swiss-leaks-reveal-about-africas-high-rollers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/well-take-the-money-but-not-the-passport-what-the-hsbc-swiss-leaks-reveal-about-africas-high-rollers\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll take the money but not the passport \u2013 what the HSBC Swiss leaks reveal about Africa\u2019s high rollers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stolen computer files with more than 100,000 names, nationalities, account information and detailed notes between the Swiss arm of Europe\u2019s biggest bank HSBC and its  clients have been revealed, and along with them, a lot of dirty laundry.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure, now dubbed \u201cSwiss Leaks\u201d, is the biggest such exposure in Swiss banking history. It started when a computer security specialist named Herv\u00e9 Falciani stole a huge cache of data in 2007 and gave it to the French government.<\/p>\n<p>The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, obtained the leaked files and have created a database which has given the world a rare glimpse into the secretive world of Swiss banking.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/mgafrica.com\/article\/2015-02-09-well-take-the-money-not-the-passport-what-swiss-leaks-reveals-about-africas-high-rollers\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stolen computer files with more than 100,000 names, nationalities, account information and detailed notes between the Swiss arm of Europe\u2019s biggest bank HSBC and its clients have been revealed, and along with them, a lot of dirty laundry. The disclosure, now dubbed \u201cSwiss Leaks\u201d, is the biggest such exposure in Swiss banking history. It started [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-pan-africa","type-news-articles","item-year-396","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-identity-documents"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}