In October 1999, The Fifth Estate obtained Swiss Bank Corporation records which revealed that Schreiber had set up a secret bank account in Zurich with the code-name "BRITAN," from which three cash withdrawals totaling $300,000 were made in 1993 and 1994.
On February 8, 2006, Schreiber stated in a Fifth Estate interview that the money from the "BRITAN" account came at the request of a Mulroney aide, who told him the former prime minister was short of funds.