It is an event trial which opened on February 7 at the federal court in Bellinzona, Switzerland. On the bench of the accused, there is a Swiss institution, created in 1856: Credit Suisse. The bank is accused of having received from 2004 to 2007 the money of a Bulgarian drug baron. Today, she says these practices are a thing of the past.
However, The worldin collaboration with the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung and the investigative consortium Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), reveal in a series of investigations that these practices continued until very recently.
Thanks to a massive leak of data from 18,000 bank accounts, which concerns some 100 billion Swiss francs, The world was able to find how funds of dubious origin, belonging to dictators or known figures of organized crime, could have ended up in the bank’s vaults.
In this episode of the “L’Heure du Monde” podcast, Maxime Vaudano, head of the Decoders’ investigation department, explains the stakes of the case.
An episode directed by Matthieu Gasnier, produced and presented by Jean-Guillaume Santi.
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