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Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2019-10-12): Viral Post claiming to be the information revealed by Wikileaks about Indian's black money in the Swiss Bank is false. Wikileaks never published any list about Indian's black money in Swiss Bank. A Facebook user named Shariq Siddiqui Shariq shared a post on October 8th which had information about the amount of black money BJP leaders have in their Swiss Bank accounts. The post further claimed that the given information is revealed in the first list about Indian’s black money in Swiss Bank by ‘Wikileaks’, a website that shares news leaks and classified media. According to the post, the list has names of 24 Indians, including names of RSS chief, Mukesh Ambani, and Essel Group chairman Shubhash Chandra. [...] On 13th September, a Facebook user shared another Wikileaks list of opposition leaders having black money in their Swiss Bank accounts. The list contains names like Asaduddin Owaisi, Sonia Gandhi, Siddaramaiah, etc.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2020-12-28): Various posts on social media claim that WikiLeaks has released the "first list" of black money holders in Swiss Bank. The post is going viral on all social media platforms. DigitEye Team also received the message on its Whatsapp fact-checking number. The list contains 24 names — Sonia Gandhi, A Raja, Rahul Gandhi, Sharad Pawar, P Chidambaram to name a few. All the money listed next to the names are figures in dollars. The first name on the alleged list is Congress leader Sonia Gandhi who it claimed to be holding more than $56 billion. The numbers are not in chronological order and neither the names are in any set order. According to the alleged list, the lowest amount is held by P Chidambaram. [...] WikiLeaks has not published any report on the same on its website. The latest report was published in October 2019. WikiLeaks took to Twitter and tweeted about a similar list of Indian black money holders. In the 2011 tweet, it clarified that such list "never appeared on WikiLeaks".
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2019-10-07): Also Read: Citing confidentiality, govt declines to share black money details received from Switzerland [...] Also Read: First tranche of Swiss banks data likely to include details about businessmen, NRIs [...] It is feared that many Indians might have closed their accounts after a global crackdown on black money led to Switzerland buckling under pressure to open its banking sector for scrutiny to clear the long-held perception of Swiss banks being a safe haven for undisclosed funds.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2019-06-06): The news that WikiLeaks has published the list of black money holders in Swiss bank is doing rounds from 2011. There are many versions of it: When one searches in WikiLeaks.org regarding any such list of black money holders in Swiss banks, no relevant information was found. In 2011, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that black money to Swiss banks mainly comes from India. But the organisation has never published any list of Indians who have stashed their black money in Swiss banks. WikiLeaks through their official Facebook and Twitter posts in 2011 clarified that the lists being circulated are fake and denied releasing any such list. [...] To sum it up, WikiLeaks list of Indian black money holders in Swiss bank is a fake one.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2023-11-08): Julian Assange, in an interview with an Indian television channel, had clearly indicated that Indians accounted for a large number of Swiss bank account holders. He also recollected that many banks entertained customers only with a minimum of Rs 5 crore in assets.In another interview, the Swiss whistle-blower, Rudolf Elmer indicated that the names of account holders include Bollywood icons and sportspersons. Obviously, no aam aadmi is going to find mention in all these lists. Other than these, the Panama Papers revelations of 2016 also indicate substantial Indian involvement. [...] It might be worthwhile to arrive at some estimates and make some inferences regarding Indian illicit money abroad. In an article in the August 2009 issue of the Swiss Review, Konrad Hummler, the chairman of the Swiss Private Bankers Association claimed that nearly one trillion out of 2.8 trillion of Swiss money was black money. Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame had told an Indian TV channel that Indians were the largest investors in Swiss banks.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2019-06-16): Switzerland has been striving hard for the past few years to shed a long-standing perception of it being a safe haven for black money, while the issue has been a politically sensitive one in India as well. [...] They said the sharing of details of Indian clients of Swiss banks with dubious records, showing suspected illegalities in amassing of funds deposited there, has been a continuing process in the recent months. [...] While Switzerland has always denied being a safe haven for black money, it has begun sharing details in recent years with several countries including India after submission of evidence about financial and tax-related wrongdoings of the Swiss bank clients.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2022-10-10): This is being seen as a key milestone in the Indian government's fight against black money allegedly stashed abroad, as authorities will be able to get the complete information on flats, apartments and condominiums owned by Indians in Switzerland as also on earnings made from such properties to help it look into tax liabilities associated with those assets. The move assumes significance on the part of Switzerland which is trying hard to reposition itself as a key global financial centre while warding off the long-persisting perception about the Swiss banking system being an alleged safe haven for black money.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2024-10-08): - Swiss Leaks (2015)
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2013-02-20): INDIA/SWIZERLAND-- Black money trail: 2nd list of Indian Swiss accounts to be shared [...] TNN | Sep 14, 2011, 11.11AM IST http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Black-money-trail-2nd-list-of-Indian-Swiss-accounts-to-be-shared/articleshow/9977871.cms NEW DELHI: A second list containing names of Indians, who have stashed black money in Swiss banks, will be shared by the Germans, Times Now reported.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2024-09-10): 1,195 Swiss bank accounts operated by Indians held Rs 25,000cr in 2007: Report [...] Fresh revelations have taken the number of Indians with accounts in HSBC Geneva to 1,195, who together held over Rs 25,000 crore in 2007, prompting the government to say that all names would be verified by tax authorities.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2018-12-21): Several hundred documents from a Swiss banking whistleblower purportedly showing offshore tax evasion and money laundering by extremely wealthy and in some cases, politically sensitive, clients from the US, Europe,...
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2011-08-08): (See attached file: List of Black Money Holders from Wiki
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2016-05-30): In this political context, the Falciani list posed an existential threat to the Swiss economy. The files had ended up in the possession of the French, but they contained incriminating details related to H.S.B.C. clients around the world. It was not long before other governments began asking the French to share information. Early in 2010, tax authorities in the United Kingdom asked if British taxpayers were on the list, and officials in Paris turned over several thousand names. That May, police in Italy announced that they had received details about Italian account holders. The scandal unfolded while Italy’s Prime Minister at the time, Silvio Berlusconi, was being investigated for tax fraud, and leaks to the press revealed that many prominent Italians were on the list, from a Roman princess to the jeweller Gianni Bulgari. The Italian press called it the elenco della vergogna—the list of shame. [...] The novelty and importance of the list lay more in its magnitude than in its confirmation of individual venality. Nevertheless, it was bracing to put human faces—many of them famous—on the story. The Guardian and other SwissLeaks participants revealed that the Falciani list included politicians, arms dealers, and people linked to terrorist financing and to the trade in blood diamonds. Stuart Gulliver, the C.E.O. of H.S.B.C., acknowledged that the list had become "a source of shame."
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2024-10-06): WikiLeaks' international profile increased in 2008 when a Swiss bank, Bank Julius Baer, tried via a Californian court injunction to prevent the site's publication of bank records.[102] Assange commented that financial institutions ordinarily "operate outside the rule of law", and he received extensive legal support from free-speech and civil rights groups.[103][104] Bank Julius Baer's attempt to prevent the publication via injunction backfired. As a result of the Streisand effect, the publicity drew global attention to WikiLeaks and the bank documents.[92]: 135 [...] - ^ "Former Swiss Banker Is Arrested in WikiLeaks Case, After a Conviction". The New York Times. 19 January 2011. Retrieved 3 June 2019. [...] - ^ "WikiLeaks Founder Swiss Account Closed, Bank Says". Bloomberg.com. 6 December 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
Claim: WikiLeaks has published the 1st list of black money holders in Swiss banks. (FACEBOOK POST, 2019-01-07)
Evidence (2021-12-31): FACT CHECK: WikiLeaks has not released list of Indians having black money in Swiss banks Social media users are claiming that WikiLeaks has published the first list of names of Indians who have stashed black money in Swiss banks. By Newsmeter Network Published on 31 Dec 2021 4:21 AM GMTClaim Review:WikiLeaks has published the first list of names of Indians hiding black money in Swiss banks
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-01-29): These visuals are related to anti-vax protests carried outside the BBC headquarters in London, earlier this month. News agencies have reported these protests. Live streamed footage of this protest is available on YouTube. While it is true that Indian diaspora has protested outside BBC against the controversial documentary on PM Modi, the viral visuals are not related to these protests. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-01-27): Fact Check: Protests in London against BBC because of Modi documentary? Nope, these are anti-vaxxers [...] Those sharing the video said it showed the masses protesting against the BBC documentary outside the British broadcaster’s office in London. The archived versions of similar posts can be seen here and here. [...] Meanwhile, we found a few posters on social media calling for a protest against the BBC documentary in front of the BBC headquarters in Portland Place, London. As per this poster, the rally is scheduled to be held on January 29.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2024-10-08): Police release images of 11 pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters after London marches [...] Images of protesters holding placards that read "I love Hezbollah" have circulated online, and police said they are working to identify those involved.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2021-03-20): BBC correspondent Marianna Spring, reporting from the anti-lockdown protests, said the atmosphere was "animated" and a number of people appeared to be angry about restrictions on peaceful protest.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2024-10-08): The shocking pictures from above show around 100,000 people marching over London's Westminster Bridge. [...] The aerial images taken in over London today (Saturday, October 28) by Sky News show the extent of the mammoth protest that took place through the city earlier. [...] Don't miss... Kids bring their teddy bears to protest outside the Foreign Office [LATEST] ‘We were targeted by police for showing photos of kidnapped children' [REPORT] Outrage after police won't jail pro-Palestinian protesters shouting 'jihad' [INSIGHT]
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2024-08-08): - In Liverpool, hundreds of people gathered outside an asylum services office, whose windows had been boarded up as a precaution, to support refugees and immigrants - In London, the Metropolitan Police said thousands of people had attended protests in Walthamstow and North Finchley which had "passed without major incident" - About 1,500 counter-protesters gathered in Bristol where streets were filled with trade unionists, anti-fascists and members of the black and Asian community - In Brighton, eight protesters gathered outside a building they believed contained the office of a lawyer specialising in nationality and refugee law but they were surrounded by 2,000 counter-protesters and forced to shelter against a building surrounded by police - In Newcastle, about 1,000 counter-protesters, mostly Muslims, took over the pavement in front of the Beacon Centre, where an immigration service business had been on a list of expected targets - One verified video in Accrington on social media showed pubgoers embracing Muslims on the town's streets.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2024-07-27): A counter-demonstration was organised by former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn's Peace & Justice project and the group Stand Up To Racism.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-01-27): Meanwhile, a video is circulating claiming that the British themselves are protesting in front of the BBC against the documentary. The caption given to the video indicates that these are the scenes of British people gathered in front of the BBC to protest against the BBC's documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi In video footage, thousands of people can be heard chanting "Shame on you" in front of the BBC's offices in London. The caption of the video reads "British Public chanting "SHAME ON YOU" to the BBC at a demonstration outside BBC Broadcasting House in London. Hated in their own country & spreading FAKE PROPAGANDA in other countries esp. India #BBC #BBCdocumentry" [...] Next we checked whether there were any protests in London against the BBC's documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi. Firstpost has an article titled "Indian diaspora to protest outside London headquarters of ‘anti-India’ BBC" As per the report The Indian diaspora in Britain will be staging a protest on Sunday, 29 January, at 12 pm GMT (1:30 pm IST) outside the BBC headquarters in London. The Indians in the UK have asked others to join them to "demonstrate the dissatisfaction against their (BBC’s) biased reportage".
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2020-06-18): London protests: Police release images of 35 people - Published Police have released images of 35 people wanted in connection with violence at protests in London.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-10-15): In London more than 1,000 police officers were deployed as crowds marched from the BBC's New Broadcasting House to Downing Street. [...] The London protest began at the BBC's headquarters in Portland Place, which was vandalised overnight with red paint splattered over the building's entrance. In a social media post later on Saturday, activist group Palestine Action claimed responsibility for daubing the building in "blood red paint, symbolising their complicity in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people through biased reporting".
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2024-10-05): People could be seen carrying Palestinian flags and placards with messages such as "ceasefire now" and "hands off Lebanon", and chanting "stop the bombing now".
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-11-11): We're ending our live coverage of the protests across London on Armistice Day.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-11-12): London protests: Met condemns 'extreme violence' of far-right [...] During the protests, BBC News was given rare access to the Met Police's control room in south London, which includes thousands of cameras. [...] One demonstrator told BBC News: "We want a ceasefire. People are suffering, children are dying under the rubble, and no-one seems to care about them."
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-10-21): The Metropolitan Police confirmed that up to 100,000 people had joined the protest, which was organised by the Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. [...] Other protests took place across all UK, including in Dublin and Belfast with people protesting also in front of BBC studios in Manchester over their reporting of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2020-06-18): London protests: Police release images of 35 people Police have released images of 35 people wanted in connection with violence at protests in London.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2024-08-08): And in the east London neighborhood of Walthamstow, an even larger gathering of more than 5,000 anti-right protesters chanted "Love, not hate" while hundreds of police officers kept watch. [...] While Percival spoke, like-minded protesters began chanting, "Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here!"
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2024-10-07): - ^ Codd, Toby (10 November 2023). "Dozens join pro-Palestine protest outside BBC Bristol". Bristol Live. Archived from the original on 11 November 2023. Retrieved 12 November 2023. [...] - ^ "Israel-Gaza: Hundreds protest outside Labour leader's office". BBC News. 18 November 2023. Retrieved 20 November 2023. [...] - "London protests: Met condemns 'extreme violence' of far-right". BBC News. 13 November 2023. Archived from the original on 18 November 2023. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2022-02-24): Protest marches; bigots emboldened in the mainstream; institutional racism and exploitative policies going apparently unchecked… these themes sound distinctly contemporary in 2020, but they’re also undeniably deep-rooted. A new documentary film, White Riot, highlights the 1970s inception of Britain’s Rock Against Racism (RAR) movement, and its ground-breaking carnival event held on 30 April 1978: where a crowd of around 100,000 anti-fascists would march the seven miles from Trafalgar Square in central London to a live concert at Victoria Park in east London, through a stronghold of violent fascist party the National Front. [...] The feature-length documentary, which won awards at London, Krakow and Berlin film festivals, builds on an acclaimed 2017 short film by Shah and Gibbs, and involves numerous RAR key players: photographer, activist and agitprop theatre performer Red Saunders; co-founder Roger Huddle; Syd Sheldon and Ruth Gregory (whose vivid photography and design gave Temporary Hoardings its sharp look); Kate Webb (aka Irate Kate) who ran the RAR office and mailed out badges, stickers and publications; smart writers like Lucy Toothpaste (aka Lucy Whitman, whose fanzine articles also gave a platform to themes including feminism and LGBT+ equality). The soundtrack is exhilaratingly multi-genre, through heady live footage (highlights include clips of reggae dons Steel Pulse, and punks X-Ray Spex, led by brilliant young frontwoman Poly Styrene, at Victoria Park; and London Pakistani rockers Alien Kulture; Tom Robinson singing the anthemic Winter Of ’79) as well as contemporary insights.
Claim: Visuals of people protesting in front of BBC office in London, against their documentary (SOCIAL MEDIA POST, 2023-01-29)
Evidence (2023-01-31): In light of the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi & 2002 Gujarat riots, a social post accompanying a video of a massive crowd gathering is being shared as a protest in front of the BBC office in London against their controversial documentary. Through this article let’s fact-check the claim made in the post. [...] Fact: These visuals are related to anti-vax protests carried outside the BBC headquarters in London, earlier this month. News agencies have reported these protests. Live streamed footage of this protest is available on YouTube. While it is true that Indian diaspora has protested outside BBC against the controversial documentary on PM Modi, the viral visuals are not related to these protests. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING. It is true that the Indian diaspora staged protests at the BBC headquarters in London, against their controversial documentary on Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Protesters demanded an apology from BBC for showing Modi in a bad light. Multiple news agencies have reported these protests, a few of which can be viewed here & here.