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Rudolf Elmer, center, poses for the photographers with digital disks, he claims have information and documents before handing them to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, left, during a news conference at the Frontline Club in London, Monday Jan. 17, 2011. Elmer blew the whistle on the conduct of Julius Baer Bank in the Cayman Islands for which he is set to stand trial in Zurich, Switzerland, on Jan. 19 for breaching Swiss bank secrecy laws. Elmer claims he has evidence of alleged abuses in the world of offshore financial centres and passed the said documents and information to Wikileaks. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)