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RUDOLF ELMER & DANIEL SCHMITT (translator/WikiLeaks) & JULIAN ASSANGE (editor/WikiLeaks)
The original complaint in German along with all attachments can be found here (45 MB). File | Torrent | Magnet
The full document context can be found on this page.
under Article 34 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Rules 45 and 47 of the Rules of the Court
Important: This application is a formal legal document and may affect your rights and obligations
1.Surname:     Elmer (Daughter)
1.Surname:     Heckel Elmer (Wife/Mother)
1.Surname:     Elmer (Husband/Father)
(Fill in the name of the States against which the applicant is directed)
Central basis for the following description of human rights violations is the Swiss banking secrecy, Art. 47 of Swiss banking law with secret legal proceedings. With this law, Switzerland violates Article 1 of the convention.
The threat of criminal offense
The Swiss banking secrecy contains specialties, through which arbitrariness is preprogrammed, on one hand to imprison, was in my case, and conviction of innocent, on the other hand for the protection of real criminals, if they were or are customers of the bank or their abettors within the bank.
What is being protected here?
„A secret“ within the banks. Crimes are not excluded as within a trial over a felony files – bank files would have to be disclosed. As this is unlawful according to Art. 47,1, disclosure of a offenses, as in my case i.e. fraud, forgery of documents and false certification, are being treated as abetment under the Swiss banking law. These offenses are no severe crimes like drug dealing and money laundering and therefore they are protected by the bank secrecy in the same way as tax-evasion and partly -fraud.
Who is protected by Article 47?
Basically criminal offenses, but to each offense there is an offender. Anyone that by Article 47,1 is part of a precisely demarcated group of people, involved into into criminal offenses via banking files and through consultation of customers, can become an accessory and aid and abet – in whatever genre, relating to money laundry from crimes like human, weapon- or drug-trafficking, tax-evasion or -fraud or other criminal actions, as the commercial background of the money is not necessarily known. Depending on ones position in a bank, there might exist a certain set of problems or threats in that respect.
Threat for life and limb
The following circumstances are reasons and motives for the immense danger my family and I are subjected to.
Cayman Islands, February 2008, Frederic Bise, a Swiss banker from Lausanne has been murdered. The case until today is unresolved. Julius Baer Trust Company, Cayman Islands, is involved into the Salinas case (former Mexican president). This story in part relates to the asset manager of Raul Salinas, Curtis Lowell jun., supervisory board of Julius Baer Trust Company, Cayman Islands and also representative for Julius Baer in Mexico City until the whole story got disclosed in 1995. The Swiss criminal prosecution is engaged in a criminal proceeding against Curtis Lowell jun. since 1995, in respect to money laundry, drug dealing, embezzlement and other crimes (in detail: BGE 133 IV 235). Raul Salinas brother was killed in 2004 and the Salinas funds of around $130.000.000 remain frozen in Switzerland as of a 2006 ruling. The case is not resolved yet, Mexico and Cayman are still investigating, but it is known that witnesses in this case have been threatened and also eliminated (information from the Swiss inquisitor in this case).
Evidence 02 Murder of Frederic Bise, Swiss Banker, 13.02.2008
Evidence 03 133,IV.235 Excerpt from the ruling of the court of cassation, Swiss Federal Prosecutor against X, Y and Z (nullity complaint), File number 6S528/2006 of 11th of June 2007 (Salinas – Curtis Lowell jun.)
Evidence 04 Confirmation of worktime of Rudolf Elmer by Bank Julius Baer, 06.06.2006
False certification of Bank Julius Baer and Trust Company in local management protocols, that Buy/Sales decisions for the concern investment portfolio, book-entry-wise run as a shadow accounting in the Caymans, had been taken by local management, which I had not been able to notify without breaking a law. But it is fact that Zurich took the decisions and Buy/Sales orders were communicated via e-mail with time-loss due to different timezones ex post and later on affirmed by management protocols, to move the decision taking for tax reasons to the Caymans.
Forgery of documents and backdating of agreements
The belated modification of documents as well as backdating fulfill the corpus delicti for document forgery and would be notifiable.
Document forgery The result of the polygraph test was used for the employment termination, even though the standard template of the American Polygraph Association (APA) explicitly denies this action. This was not according to moral and ethical standards the American polygraphing expert is subject to as a member of the APA, nor appropriate in respect to any employment- and civil-law of a constitutional state.
Evidence 29 Consent Form Polygraph Test, 21.11.2002
The Swiss banking law Art. 47 of banking law, does not allow violations against the social security system to be notified without breaking the banking law. These CHF28.000 present the precaution insurance security for me and my family from 1st of January 2002 until 30th of September 2002 and according to current law can not be handed down from employer to employee. This also is the reason why the bank has immediately fulfilled this payment after my appeal to the authorities. The statute of limitation would have been over end of 2007.
Evidence 08 Legal notice of denial in relation to evasion of social security payments, 30.10.2007
Evidence 31 Employment with Julius Baer to Rudolf Elmer, 16.09.2002, Repercussive agreement on precaution responsibility, Point 3
Malicious damnification of financial property of the United States of America
Swisspartners Insurance Company Mr Jud Ireland, Telluride, Colardo: P.W.C. Goulden (CEO of Julius Baer Trust Company, Cayman Islands) acknowledges in his memo that Mr. Jud Ireland (customer) tries to defraud American tax and P.W.C. gives hints on how this can be achieved.
Malicious harm of Swiss respectively German tax
Juerg Grossmanns G-Trust. Mr. Juerg Grossmann, owner of the commercial superstructure Gattikon in the Canton Zurich uses his G-Trust and its subsidiaries Lapstrade Ltd and Massaya Ltd, to finance his projects in Switzerland, Germany and Mallorca, free himself of taxes and pay tax-exempt monthly „salaries“, payments from the trust to his personal accounts with Julius Baer, Zurich and Volksbank in Thalwill.
Duty of disclosure/Possibilities for complaint towards inland and foreign tax authorities
It is only allowed to „charter sub-poena and duty of disclosure towards an authority“ based on „confederate and cantonal regulations“. The attached letter by Maples & Calder, Cayman, affirms that I was barred from voicing my opinion, that is complaining about tax defraud, or also the polygraphing test etc. I would have had to disclose secret client data to show the motives and which would have been pursued as disclosure is a violation according to Art. 47 of Swiss banking law.
Coercion via stalking
Bank Julius Baer has engaged German and Swiss private investigators to raise the pressure on my family. My daughter and I both needed professional help to cope with this. Coercion via stalking is a criminal action in Switzerland according to federal ruling BGE 129,IV,262 from 2003 but my complaint of June 2005 got procrastinated and finally rejected on March 13th 2007 by the prosecutor of Zurich-Sihl. See evidence 40.
Above ruling says, that based on Art 181 of Criminal Code that „Coercion via stalking (compulsive pursuit of a person), is a crime, namely when the offender follows the victim in many cases or over a longer period of time“, confining the freedom of action of the victim with time every single harassment, resulting in this being an unlawful restriction of freedom of action and therefore completed coercion.
The antimony of general criminal code and Art. 47, the banking secret, is most evident:
If I do not aid and abet to fraud within the bank, I am punished according to Art 47.; in case I aid an abet the fraud I am threatened by other articles of the criminal code – in any case I can be punished. There is no way out.
Relationship customers – bank – employees
In effect that under the pressure of critical customers and their businesses, the bank is raising pressure to the employees: when I realized the danger and was no longer willing to subject me and my family to it, I have been put under such mental pressure (mobbing) that I got sick.
Secret proceedings anticipate a fair process
Should I then take legal action against the employment termination and disclose the bank files thereto, I violate the banking secret, Art. 47, and not only are serious punishments pending. In Art. 47 – that I would violate, it is further written:
The Canton Zurich criminal code Strafprozessordnung (StPO) § 131 continues:
2) „The proceedings have to be proportional and impendence being impossible to avert differently.“.
The bank made exactly this come true: as had been promised by Dr. Georg Schmid (Head Human Resources Julius Baer Holding AG, Zurich) I was „worn out“, as I took legal action and filed a notice with the tax authorities.
This corpus delicti had already been regarded as violation of the banking secret (Art. 47, 1 and 3) by the bank and as „impending“ and „impossible to advert differently“ (StPO §131, 1 and 2) by cantonal law enforcement agencies and was immediately punished with a search of my home and imprisonment for 30 days.
Evidence 06 Application for release from custody with according release justification of lawyer Ganden Tethong Blattner, 06.10.2005
Evidence 17 Excerpt from marriage register of Elm, canton Glarus, Vol. 1995, Page 45, Nr. 4, 15.09.1995; Certificate of marriage Elmer, Rudolf Matthias and Heckel, Mechthild Adelheid
And this even though said prosecutor claims that neither canton Zurich nor respectively the Swiss judiciary in general is responsible in the following evidence provided.
Representation by a lawyer and access to records only under constraints
During the first interrogation I was denied a lawyer by rights, as well as I was denied to attract one myself.
Evidence 16 First questioning by prosecutor Bergmann without presence of a lawyer, 28.09.2005
Judges as well as prosecutors can only enact existing law. And that's exactly what they did. Therefore I can not go to court in Switzerland and have turned towards an international court.
Onus of proof in secret proceedings
Simply the fact that a state has secret judicial proceedings available, already questions that state. In how much the lawfully secret proceedings are being employed, can only be answered by the one employing them. This leads to the onus of proof needing to be placed with the prosecutor, not one against which it is applied.
Abuse of legal instruments
As crimes within the bank can be proven by the data on the CD that I possess while the jurisdiction lies on the Cayman Islands, I have still been subjected to a search of my home and imprisonment for 30 days in Switzerland, which proves the abuse of legal instruments for intimidation. Part of this is the rejection of a release request and the following imprisonment for the full 30 days.
Art. 47 of the Swiss banking law has been abused for intimidation by actions like imprisonment and search of a home. The disclosure of evidence, documents and files from the bank
for confirmation of my innocence on one hand and
Evidence 25 Protocol of search of home, 27.9.2005; list of confiscated items - confiscation of evidence
Since the imprisonment and according accusations (September 2005) the Swiss proceedings against me have neither been opened nor closed.
Procrastination in part also is used for lapse of time of the abuse of regulatory proceedings (unlawful search of my home, imprisonment) and of those of the bank against me (threatening, stalking) as well as lapse of time in respect to bank internal crimes (as data cannot be used for prosecution).
Massive damnification of family and private life due to coercion and stalking
The private and family life (Article 8, 1 of the [EU Human Rights] convention) has been seriously impacted. Not only we ourselves felt strongly harassed over a time-frame of 3 years. Also our neighbors became alienated. Our daughter and I needed mental care and she herself wanted rather to die than continue to live. Our effort to bring the stalkers in front of a court since June 2005 had been rejected by the prosecutor.
Evidence 13 Letter B. Trotter, Psychologist lic. phil to Family Elmer, 22.08.2006; Final statement related to treatment of Helena Elmer.
Evidence 14 Drawing Helena, my daughter, of spring 2005 with letter to prosecutor Bergmann, 13.03.2007
List of actions against my family
Inhumane and degrading treatment of a human
According to Dr. med Carole Kherfouche, mental service of the detention facilities canton Zurich I was 100% incapacitated during my imprisonment. Despite of this diagnosis I was kept as any other prisoner. I was not examined and the conditions of my imprisonment did not meet those of a person with health issues. During the first night not even the light in my cell was switched off (intended intimidation/torture technique)
Evidence 15 Dr. med. Carole Kherfouche, prison doctor and detention service canton Zurich to Basler Insurance Group, 3.1.2006; medical certificate UVG, Rudolf Elmer
The approach of executives of Julius Baer Holding AG, Zurich and Julius Baer, New York during my polygraphing test, that had been acknowledged by Julius Baer Holding AG, Zurich as the group-responsible entity: If the bank had not rewritten me to a local employment contract just two months before the test, I could have taken legal action with the prosecutor in Zurich respectively in Switzerland. The modus operandi was just so dissembling that I lost Swiss and lawful employee protection.
Evidence 34 Termination of employment letter by the Bank Julius Baer on the grounds of me trying to fight the polygraph test, 10.12.2002
Evidence 36 Medical attest Dr. med. Felix Haefner (family doctor) to „To whom it may concern“, 18.2.2003, Medical History of Rudolf Elmer
Expropriation of files as of lack of legal basis
My belongings were not protected. On 27th of September 2005 the police confiscated files, computer and data carriers during the search of my home during the search of my home, that would have been important for me in order to defend myself or charge the bank.
This data is important to me (and partly irrelevant for any police investigation) as I could base my reasoning against the bank respectively APA and also my defense against accusations on them.
Secret proceedings - no individual cases
Switzerland has already been convicted multiple times as there always were secret legal proceedings that prevent the axiom of fairness, publicity and independence of the court in criminal and civil proceedings and therefore any sort of effective defense.
Abuse of the right to free expression of opinion
The banks have abused their right to free expression of opinion in the media, with all consequences that bring slander and libel, last but not least leaving our home country as a consequence of this chivvy, staged by the gentlemen Ballmer and Haessig.
Evidence 24 Letter Rudolf Elmer to press council, 25.3.2008; Complaint against legally relevant libel, slander and defamation
Weltwoche: the offender "...being Swiss citizen R.E. (name known to editorial staff), who...".
We therefore ask for quickest possible treatment of this case. s
Art. 1 Commitment to respect of human rights
STATEMENT RELATIVE TO ARTICLE 35 PARAGRAPH 1 OF THE CONVENTION
1) Final decisions (date, court or authority and nature of decision).
30.10.2007: Denial notice of claims related to Bank Julius Baer's evasion of social security payments by prosecutor Zurich-Sihl. (Evidence 08)
11.12.2007: Denial notice of claims in relation to coercion via stalking, threatening etc (Evidence 07)
IV. STATEMENT OF THE OBJECT OF THE APPLICATION
1) I request to convict Switzerland as the banking secrecy as trade secret and law (Art. 47 of the banking law) and the hereto connected criminal proceedings, especially the secret proceedings according to Zurich cantonal criminal code §131ff, violate the convention to the protection of human rights and basic freedoms.
1)Have you submitted the above complaints to any other international investigation or settlement? If so, give full details.
ATTACHMENTS (IN NUMERIC ORDER)
Consultation to the appeal of 13.04.2006, no data theft, not responsibility of Switzerland as per prosecutor A. Bergmann
Confirmation of employment of Rudolf Elmer by Bank Julius Baer, 06.06.2006
Protocol of investigation, police Canton Zurich, 31.05.2007; initiation of post-taxation process
Backdated stipulation of district court Zurich to Rudolf Elmer, 11.10.2005, RE: stipulation to application for release (repeated rejection, different argumentation)
Stipulation district court Zurich to Rudolf Elmer, 11.10.2005; Stipulation in respect to application for release (imprisonment on remand: false wife Ranitha Kumaarasamy, false claims)
Search warrant based on threatening etc, signed 7th of September 2007 by investigating prosecutor Bergmann, not an independent judge.
Campbell, Attorney-at-Laws Description of circumstances, 27.02.2003
Letter compensation office for Swiss banking industry to Rudolf Elmer, 3.8.2007, supplementary compensation ruling
Minutes of Meeting: Julius Baer, Cayman, 13.01.2000; Decision of Management
Weltwoche Schweiz, ,Das Leck im Paradies“, by Lukas Haessig; published 25.06.2005
Memorandum Caesar Trust Jonathan Lampitt „Trust should be treated for US tax purposes as owned by another person“
Employment with Julius Baer to Rudolf Elmer, 16.09.2002, Repercussive agreement on precaution responsibility, Point 3
Maples and Calder, Cayman „ongoing obligations of confidentiality and you may also be committing a criminal offense“, 09.05.2003
Letter re Observation/Stalking by so-called „Private Investigators“ from April 2004 to Nov 2005 in Freienbach signed by witnesses.
Documents revealing the money-flows and commercial conduct of Mr. Juerg Grossmann.
According to excerpt of an order by cantonal police Zurich of May 31st 207 the bank refuses to hand over the CD it had obtained from CASH.
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