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The BBC says that the bank HSBC helped people to hide money so they not have to pay tax. A BBC programme looked at the of thousands of bank accounts, $128 billion, from an HSBC bank in Switzerland. The was leaked by a whistleblower working as a computer for HSBC in Geneva. He stole the of more than 100,000 clients . The data shows that HSBC helped wealthy clients to evade tax. A French banking looked at the stolen data. It said that 99.8% of French citizens on the were probably evading tax.

HSBC said the bank has changed a . It has put in place many policies designed to prevent its banking being used to evade taxes or launder . The Guardian newspaper said HSBC understood that it failed to follow the law . One who complained when the bank did not change lost her . Sue Shelley's job was to make HSBC followed the law. The BBC said that when she complained that the bank was following the law, the bank fired . The BBC said HSBC is now facing investigations in the USA, France, Belgium and Argentina.

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