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

HSBC said the bank has changed a [lot / lots] since 2007. It said: "HSBC has put in place [numerous / numeral] initiatives designed to prevent its banking services being used to evade taxes or [laundry / launder] money." The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. said HSBC [told / tell] its reporters that the bank understood that it failed to follow the law [proper / properly] . One woman who complained when the bank did not make [change / changes] lost her job. Sue Shelley was responsible for making [sure / surely] HSBC followed the law. The BBC said that when she complained that the bank was not [keeping / doing] its promise to change, the bank [fired / fried] her. The BBC said HSBC is now facing [crime / criminal] investigations in the USA, France, Belgium and Argentina.