Stéphanie Gibaud

She published a book where she explained the practices of UBS (translation into English available in Sept. 2015).

She received the Anticor ethics prize in January 2015 before being invited to testify by the "Tax Ruling" commission of the European Parliament in Brussels.

In June 2015, she was officially invited to an audition at the embassy of Argentina in Paris by Ricardo Echegaray, minister of finance of Argentina and the members of the Argentinian "commission bicamerale" who are working on the mechanism of tax evasion.

On Septembre 10, 2015, Stéphanie Gibaud was nominated for the Sakharov Prize 2015, together with two other whistleblowers, Edward Snowden and Antoine Deltour.

On march 5, 2015, the labor court ruled in favor of Stephanie Gibaud and condemned UBS to pay a fine of €30,000 for harassment. The bank did not appeal the case.

In May 2015, Stephanie Gibaud and her publisher received a complaint from UBS France for defamation.

On May 11, 2015 she was being listened to by the tax ruling committee in the European Parliament in Brussels, invited by Alain Lamassoure. Eva Joly, European deputy, who was seating in the commission, evoked her support to Stephanie Gibaud in an interview given to France Inter (radio) on January 24, 2015.

In June 2015, Stephanie Gibaud co-wrote a tribune in L'Express magazine with Nicolas Dupont-Aignan to defend the cause of the whistleblowers.

On June 17, 2015, Stephanie Gibaud was officially received by Ricardo Etchegaray (AFIP) at the embassy of Argentina in Paris. She was listened to by the members of the bicameral commission of the Argentinian congress. who investigate tax evasion. She then asked Argentina to bring the question of the protection of the ones who put themselves in danger to protect the common good to the G20

She was also listened to by Belgian investigators as part of the indictment of UBS Belgium in July 2014 and several times in 2015.

In February 2014, she published "La Femme qui en savait vraiment trop" (the woman who knew too much) at the Cherche Midi publisher. She explains various dysfunctions of the bank, namely about the illegal sales service of the Swiss client advisors on the French territory and tax evasion.

Antoine Peillon, investigation journalist, who signed the postface of her book clearly explained that Stephanie Gibaud has been one of the sources of her book entitled "Ces 600 milliards qui manquent à la France" (these 600 billions which lack in France), published in March 2013.

In 2012, Stephanie Gibaud was listened to by Eric Bocquet, senator and reporter of the tax evasion commission and then by Yann Galut, deputy, in July 2013. Her name appears in the reports of the senate commission of inquiry dated July 17, 2012. and October 17, 2013

UBS France tried to dismiss her in 2009 but the dismissal was refused. In 2010, UBS France filled in a complaint against her for defamation but lost their trial. She was finally made redundant in 2012.

She has been acting as a whistleblower since 2008 working with French authorities and namely with the French customs. She has also been listened by the Belgian authorities (UBS Belgium being under investigation).

In June 2008, Stephanie Gibaud was requested by her manager to delete the content of her hard drive because the office of the Paris general director was searched.

As a whistleblower by the French labor inspection as of 2008 and by the public prosecutor when filling a complaint against her employer at the end of 2009, Stephanie Gibaud has been listened to by the brigade of repression of the crime against the people (BRPD, part of the French financial brigade) in February 2011 and in March 2015 and several times by the customs, judicial investigations in 2011 and 2012.

In 2007, the American banker Bradley Birkenfeld story gets out. His disclosures to the United States government led to a massive fraud investigation against the Swiss bank UBS and other banks that had enabled tax evasion by U.S.taxpayers.

She joined UBS in 1999 where her mission was to develop partnerships with luxury brands and organise client events in France. She has played a key role in blowing the whistle and making public the fact that UBS AG has encouraged tax evasion and money laundering practices with the complicity of UBS France.