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The BBC says that HSBC, the world's changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy largest bank, helped rich changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy to hide money so they would not have to pay changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy. A BBC changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy programme got access to the details of thousands of changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy bank accounts, worth $128 billion, from an HSBC bank in Switzerland. The changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy was leaked by a whistleblower in 2007. It shows that HSBC helped its changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy clients to evade tax. The whistleblower was a computer expert working for HSBC in Geneva. He stole the changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy 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 changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy on the list were changescitizenscriminaldetailsdocumentaryinformationjoblotnumerouspeopleprivateprobablypromiseproperlyreporterssecondservicessuretaxwealthy evading tax.

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