The Canada Revenue Agency has received details on nearly 1,800 Swiss bank accounts registered to Canadians that were uncovered by French prosecutors during a probe into the clients of Europe's largest bank.

For more than a year, investigators in the French Riviera city of Nice have been poring over a trove of banking records from the Geneva offices of HSBC. The documents, which were stolen by a former employee of HSBC and handed over to investigators, have sparked a diplomatic spat between France and Switzerland and waves of anxiety for HSBC clients who may have turned to the Alpine state to conceal their wealth.

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