Summary
Purported Sep 2007 fax from Bank Julius Baer (Zurich) to the German Chancellor Anegla Merkel. The document asks Mrs. Merkel to close her accounts following an unexplained 1,200,000 USD transfer to a Swiss numbered account. This document appears to be a forgery. However the identity of forger and their motivation remain of strong journalistic interest and it is possible that some other circumstance explains the forgery related features, which are almost "too obvious" to be true.
On Jan 23, 2008 Bank Julius Baer's lawyer in Los Angeles, Evan N. Spiegal of Lavely and Singer, claimed to Wikileaks' Palo Alto lawyer Julie Turner in a telephone conversation (however, refused to put this in writing) that former Cayman Islands BJB employee, Rudolf Elmer was the true author of the document.