Customers involved in torture, drug trafficking, recycling of money, corruption and other serious crimes, according to a massive information leakagethey hid their wealth in the accounts of Swiss credit. The details of the accounts linked to thirty thousand international clients of the Swiss bank are contained in the new banking data published by the part of the Occrp consortium (Organized crime and corruption reporting project) which was granted exclusive access to leaks. Occrp sees as exclusive partners for Italy The print e IrpiMedia. The leak reveals a wealth of more one hundred billion Of Swiss francsabout eighty billion dollars, indicating the widespread failures of the ddue diligence by the institution, despite repeated commitments to eliminate dubious clients and illicit funds.
Customers include a human trafficker in the Philippines, a Hong Kong stock exchange boss jailed for corruption, a billionaire who ordered thehomocide of his Lebanese pop star girlfriend and executives who plundered the Venezuelan state oil company, as well as corrupt politicians from Egypt to Ukraine. Without naming him, the newspaper also refers to the affair involving the Italian cardinal Angelo Becciu. “An account owned by the Vatican – reads the article – was used to spend 350 million euros (290 million pounds) in an alleged fraudulent investment in a London property that is at the center of an ongoing criminal trial against several defendants, including a cardinal ”.
The huge amount of banking data was leaked from a anonymous informant who turned to the German newspaper Southgerman newspaper. Credit Suisse replied that Switzerland’s strict banking secrecy laws le prevent you from commenting statements relating to individual customers. “Credit Suisse strongly rejects the allegations and inferences about the bank’s alleged business practices,” he said in a statement, arguing that the issues uncovered by reporters are based on “selective information. taken from the context, which give rise to tendentious interpretations of the activity carried out by the bank “. The institute also said the allegations were largely relating to the past, in some cases dating back to a time when “the laws, practices and expectations of financial institutions were very different.” Even if some accounts were in use as early as the 1940s, however, points out the Guardianmore than two thirds have been open since 2000. Many of these were still open in the last decade and some remain open today.
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