"The evidence indicated that HSBC understood this relationship but intentionally sold out its customer's confidential business documents to the US side so that the US government could overlook the British bank's own misconduct and not punish it under the 2012 Deferred Prosecution Agreement," the newspaper said in one of its articles on the matter.
在一篇针对此事件的文章中该报写道：“有证据表明，汇丰银行清楚地知道这一层关系，但刻意将客户的机密商业文件出售给美方，为的就是让美国政府忽略这家英国银行自身的不当行为，逃避根据 2012《暂缓起诉协议》应受的处罚。”