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David Leigh

David Leigh is the Guardian's former investigations executive editor

August 2020

  • The Right To Know<br>British civil servant and historian Clive Ponting holding his book 'The Right to Know: The Inside Story of the Belgrano Affair', UK, 13th March 1985. (Photo by Colin Davey/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    Clive Ponting obituary

    Senior civil servant who became a whistleblower over the Falklands war

December 2017

  • Lord Justice Leveson presents his report in 2012.

    The press’s own watchdog is failing so I’m joining the fight for honest journalism

    David Leigh
    I can’t stand by while the government tries to scupper Leveson, and Ipso goes soft on hate speech, writes the former Guardian investigations editor David Leigh

March 2015

  • Hervé Falciani leaked a cache of secret bank files that showed how HSBC's Swiss subsidiary helped wealthy customers avoid taxes and hide millions.

    HSBC files
    HSBC files timeline: from Swiss bank leak to fallout

    Following the publication of files leaked by IT expert turned whistleblower Hervé Falciani, the global bank has admitted wrongdoing at Swiss arm but insists things have changed

14 February 2015

  • A composite image of Keith Humphreys and Heather Mitchell

    HSBC files
    The tax-dodging father, the benefits cheat – and how they are treated so differently

    The double standards of a system far harsher on benefit cheats than on tax evader

13 February 2015

  • HMRC boss Lin Homer and Treasury minister David Gauke

    HSBC files
    France says it did not restrict UK from using HSBC files to pursue bank and criminals

  • Rona Fairhead continues to juggle a role at HSBC with her BBC Trust duties, currently serving as chair of the bank's North American division.

    HSBC files
    HSBC files: Rona Fairhead declines to answer queries about activities at Swiss bank

12 February 2015

  • Rachid Mohamed Rachid, Egypt's trade minister under Hosni Mubarak

    HSBC files
    Fugitives, aides and bagmen: HSBC's 'politically exposed' clients

  • HSBC clients: Spanish cycling doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, Kazakh banker Margulan Seisembayev, and Greek businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis.

    HSBC files
    HSBC files: Swiss bank hid money for suspected criminals

11 February 2015

  • Tony and Cherie Blair at Downing Street after Labour's election victory in 1997. Under his premiership, non-dom numbers doubled from 67,600 to 137,000 between 1997 and 2007.

    HSBC files
    HSBC files reveal how UK's non-dom tax concession is being exploited

  • HSBC Swiss account holders

    HSBC files
    HSBC files show Tories raised over £5m from HSBC Swiss account holders

10 February 2015

  • Richard Caring

    HSBC files
    Richard Caring breaks silence over £2.25m cash withdrawal from HSBC

    Restaurant tycoon gives newspaper interview to explain reasons for transaction recorded in leaked Swiss files
  • Beach in the British Virgin Islands

    HSBC files
    HSBC files: Swiss bank aggressively pushed way for clients to avoid new tax

    Far from acting as passive party to clients’ tax schemes, HSBC Suisse marketed device to effectively sabotage European savings directive
  • Stephen Green

    HSBC files
    HSBC files: HMRC cleared bank boss for peerage despite misconduct data

    The Guardian has established that the UK tax authority failed to tell Downing Street of Swiss arm’s misconduct during vetting of Stephen Green

9 February 2015

  • Stephen Green

    HSBC files
    HSBC files: HMRC had data on misconduct before bank boss made trade minister

    Leaked Swiss data containing 6,000 British names handed to HMRC in May 2010, months before Stephen Green was made Tory trade minister


  • Sir John Bond, HSBC group chairman at the time, purchased the Swiss bank in 1999

    HSBC files
    HSBC files raise questions about oversight of senior bankers past and present

    The five were involved in either acquiring, overseeing or managing the Swiss operation, which helped clients conceal assets from the taxman

    • HSBC files
      Ex-HSBC boss Stephen Green: the ethical banker with questions to answer

    • HSBC files
      Cash pilgrims and bricks of money: HSBC Swiss bank operated like cash machine for rich clients

    • HSBC files
      HSBC files reveal mystery of Richard Caring and the £2m cash withdrawal

8 February 2015

  • Charles Goode

    HSBC files
    Former ANZ chairman held HSBC Swiss bank account, leaked files reveal

  • A branch of HSBC in Geneva

    HSBC files
    HSBC Swiss files: leading Australian figures held offshore bank accounts

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