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CREDIT SUISSE

Suisse Secrets: How Credit Suisse became the bank of spies

During the War on Terror, international strategy relied on intelligence officials from regimes accused of corruption and torture. Several of these spies and their families held…

  • The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
21 min read
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BILLY RAUTENBACH

Suisse Secrets: Bank financed Zimbabwean fraudster in deal that saved Mugabe

The Swiss Secrets leak reveals Credit Suisse’s role in a controversial platinum mine sale that helped to finance a wave of violence around Zimbabwe’s 2008 election

  • The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
10 min read
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CORRUPTION

What the historic leak of Swiss Banking records reveal

Despite pledges by Credit Suisse to crack down on illegitimate funds, leaked data shows the bank catered to dozens of criminals, dictators, sanctioned parties and political…

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  • Süddeutsche Zeitung
20 min read
Iron grip: President Denis Sassou Nguesso has been in power for 36 years
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Congo-Brazzaville’s repressive government buys secret weapons haul from Azerbaijan

For several years, the Republic of the Congo has been quietly buying an arsenal from Azerbaijan, with the latest cache arriving before next month’s election

  • Khadija Sharife
  • The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
  • Mark Anderson
9 min read