Stéphanie Gibaud: Letter to the Prime Minister

A former employee of UBS Paris and an emblematic figure among whistleblowers, Stéphanie Gibaud played a key role in exposing tax evasion practices and organised money laundering within UBS AG (Switzerland) and UBS France. Her revelations were decisive for the French Ministry of Finance, making it possible to identify 38,000 offshore accounts worth 12 billion euros.
Despite her courageous action, Stéphanie Gibaud now lives on the RSA (minimum income benefit) and is estranged from part of her family. She is fighting to obtain redress, in accordance with the legislation that provides for compensation for whistleblowers. However, she is up against the resistance of the Ministry of the Economy, whose refusal to compensate her for the harm she has suffered raises questions about the sincerity of the administration’s commitment to protecting whistleblowers.
Below we publish an open letter from Serèn Guttmann and Yasmine Motarjem, two eminent advocates for whistleblowers, addressed to Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne, calling for fair compensation proportionate to the risks taken by whistleblowers serving the public interest.