Swiss financial system was under attack after the Western media published a sensational leak about 30,000 customers of one of the country's oldest banks, Credit Suisse. Allegedly, for decades he deliberately served "corrupt officials, drug dealers, human traffickers, war criminals" and other lawbreakers, including in the highest echelons of power around the world. The information concerns approximately 18,000 accounts worth more than 100 billion Swiss francs.

The revealing materials were provided to the German newspaper SZ by a certain "informed source", and she, in turn, shared them with The Guardian, Le Monde and The New York Times. According to the leaks, the earliest of the criminal deposits were opened in the early 1940s, the most "fresh" date back to the past decade. The investigation includes, for example, a Swedish citizen convicted of human trafficking in the Philippines, and a Middle Eastern tycoon who was recognized as the mastermind behind the murder of his pop star girlfriend. Also in the publications, the name of the ex-manager of the Siemens concern, who owned as many as six accounts in a Swiss bank, surfaced. On one of them, according to 2006 data, lay 54 million Swiss francs, "whose origin cannot be explained by the manager's salary." The dubious contribution of the Vatican, which was at the center of a criminal investigation into millions in real estate fraud in London, is also mentioned. According to The Guardian, among the defendants in there is even a suspect at the level of a cardinal.

Credit Suisse has strongly denied all allegations. According to the bank, 90 percent of suspicious accounts were closed during inspections. They called the articles an attempt to denigrate the financial institution and undermine the very principle of banking secrecy, which Switzerland continues to defend.

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