A whistle-blower website which has recently featured documents relating to the Bermuda Housing Corporation Police investigation and Harold Darrell's Son of the Soil letter, has been taken off-line following a US court ruling.

And yesterday it appeared a number of 'mirror' Wikileak sites domained in countries outside the US were also being shutdown, although at least one version of the web facility remained in operation - complete with Bermuda-related BHC articles on show.

The main Wikileaks.org website was cut off on Monday following a California court ruling, according to the website.

The site has previously allowed whistle-blowers to anonymously post government and corporate documents.

The reason for the site being taken off-line is an ongoing case brought by a Swiss bank after several hundred documents were placed on the Internet site relating to its offshore activities.

It is claimed the documents were posted by a former vice president of the Swiss bank group Julius Baer relating to the bank's Cayman Islands operation.

According to a BBC news report the documents were removed from cyberspace because Julius Bear believes they could impact a legal case in Switzerland.

Although the US site has been cut off, other versions of the pages hosted on computer servers in Belgium and India could still be accessed, it is reported. However, yesterday it appeared a number of these sites had also vanished from cyberspace.

The Royal Gazette did find one version of the website still operating at http://88.80.13.160/wiki/Wikileaks

As well as the Bermuda documents that appeared during and after the BHC-related legal action brought by the Government against the Island's media organisations last year, Wikileaks.org is said to host around 1.2 million documents from around the world.

It was founded in 2006 by dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and technologists in various parts of the world.