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The BBC says that HSBC, the world's largest bank, helped rich to hide money so they would not have to pay . A BBC programme got access to the details of thousands of bank accounts, worth $128 billion, from an HSBC bank in Switzerland. The was leaked by a whistleblower in 2007. It shows that HSBC helped its clients to evade tax. The whistleblower was a computer expert working for HSBC in Geneva. He stole the of more than 100,000 clients worldwide. A French banking team looked at the stolen data in 2013. It concluded that 99.8% of French on the list were evading tax.

HSBC said the bank has changed a since 2007. It said: "HSBC has [put in place] initiatives designed to prevent its banking being used to evade taxes or launder money." The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. said HSBC told its that the bank understood that it failed to follow the law . One woman who complained when the bank did not make lost her . Sue Shelley was responsible for making HSBC followed the law. The BBC said that when she complained that the bank was not keeping its to change, the bank fired her. The BBC said HSBC is now facing investigations in the USA, France, Belgium and Argentina.

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