Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 March 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Revenue Commissioners Investigation of HSBC Offshore Accounts

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

Again, this is all in the public domain. It is clear that this possession came from a former employee of HSBC Switzerland. It is in the public domain that HSBC complained to the Swiss authorities, who sought to have the person extradited, I presume that is the term, from France and Switzerland. Instead, the French authorities decided it was a really interesting disk and gave it to the tax administration to follow up because obviously, the data included a significant number of French taxpayers who were account holders.