Bahrain Mirror: One of Al-Bilad newspaper’s journalists, Rashed Al-Ghaeb, stated that he was handed a file from employees in Bahrain Polytechnic college, containing many details about “the employment of relatives, suspensions over corruption, odd decisions issued as a result of briberies by the college’s executive board.”

Data in massive cache of leaked secret bank account files from HSBC’s Swiss banking arm was made public by dozens of major media outlets. Prominent figures, who were HSBC clients were implicated in these files, and among them was Bharain’s Crown Prince Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa.