Tax minister Jan Kees de Jager has instructed tax inspectors and fraud investigators to try to get information about secret Swiss bank accounts from Germany, which is thinking of buying stolen information, news agency ANP reports.

On Monday, it emerged Germany is considering spending millions of euros on a CD containing details of 1,500 secret Swiss accounts stolen by a former bank worker.
Germany did a similar deal involving secret accounts in Liechtenstein in 2008, and the Netherlands was then also able to get information about Dutch account holders.