CHICAGO (STNG) -- A man filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court claiming his financial records were unlawfully sold to the United States government.
Ian Walker, of Washington, D.C., filed the suit against the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, including all Illinois residents that have engaged in a domestic or international financial transaction since September 2001.
According to the suit, SWIFT is a financial group that supplies software to 7,800 financial institutions in more than 200 countries. SWIFT routes more than 11 million transactions each day, most of them across international boarders, the suit states.
Walker claims SWIFT began providing financial records from its vast international database to the government sometime after Sept. 11, 2001. The records included banking transactions involving thousands of Americans, according to the suit.
In the suit, Walker claims that he has lost money or property as a result of unfair and unlawful business practices by the defendant.
The plaintiff seeks restitution, disgorgement, injunctive relief, attorneys’ fees and all other relief allowed under the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
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