Kouloglou_Wilkinson- TAX3 Danske Bank Public Hearing — Transcript

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1. 0:00thank you very much stelios column with
2. 0:05a mr. corn how how much important is the
3. 0:09anonymity in the West blowers cases in
4. 0:14my country for instance there is a
5. 0:16scandal being investigated right now the
6. 0:20with the people blew the whistle they
7. 0:23are anonymous but they are so much
8. 0:26attacked with every word you can imagine
9. 0:29like there are thugs and criminals liars
10. 0:32from the people there have been
11. 0:35allegedly you involved in the scandal so
12. 0:39is it important to keep the anonymity
13. 0:41for the with robots this is the one
14. 0:43question that the other for mr.
15. 0:44Wilkinson is that in your testimony that
16. 0:47the dancer Parliament you talk halls
17. 0:50about three other banks involved in the
18. 0:54processing of the of the billions of
19. 0:56dollars the so everybody is talking
20. 1:01about the Deutsche Bank that JP Morgan
21. 1:03at the Bank of America
22. 1:06so is your nd8 covering the this to
23. 1:16disclose the name of the banks in in
24. 1:22terms of an amenity and confidentiality
25. 1:24it's absolutely essential when the
26. 1:26United States was debating the
27. 1:28dodd-frank Act which I helped and worked
28. 1:30with the Senate Committee on the issue
29. 1:33of retaliation came up and the committee
30. 1:35staff had it right they said unless a
31. 1:38whistleblower can come in anonymously
32. 1:40they are toast
33. 1:43they will never work again
34. 1:46on Wall Street they knew that from their
35. 1:49years of investigation and that was
36. 1:51music to my ears the creation of a law
37. 1:54that actually permitted effective
38. 1:56anonymous and confidential
39. 1:57whistleblowing for the first time that's
40. 2:00a model in regards to what's going on in
41. 2:03Greece for which I have some knowledge I
42. 2:05represent many European whistleblowers I
43. 2:07can tell you right now the fear in
44. 2:09Europe is the disclosure of identity I
45. 2:12worked with a major corporate executive
46. 2:14for ten months just trying to explain to
47. 2:17them that in the United States you can
48. 2:19go in anonymously the fear of being
49. 2:22exposed is monumental just to be clear
50. 2:31danske bank has waived as as far as it's
51. 2:35able danske bank has waived its right
52. 2:38but it can't waive all right danske bank
53. 2:42can't waive the rights of a bank that i
54. 2:45might know the name of so i'm not
55. 2:48talking about you you named three bets
56. 2:50as you saw on my slide i named no banks
57. 2:53and that's the way is because danske
58. 2:56bank can't waive my right but wait
59. 2:58danske bank can't waive those banks
60. 3:00rights to anonymity and the criminal
61. 3:07gets protection of the identity the
62. 3:11whistleblowers identity is leaked and
63. 3:13there's nothing he can do about it Thank
64. 3:18You max Anderson thank you for