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Revealed: The Suisse Secrets investigation exposed how Swiss bank Credit Suisse abused the country’s banking laws to offer criminals and the corrupt a safe haven for their ill-gotten gains. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP)
BANK

Initiative to blacklist Switzerland gains traction in European Union

Support is growing in the European Parliament against Swiss banks’ role in money laundering

  • Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
5 min read
President-Kassym-Jomart-Tokayev. (Kazakhstan President Press Office/TA
CORRUPTION

Suisse Secrets: The Kazakhstan president’s offshore stash

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has sought to distance himself from his predecessor, but his family has its own secrets: Moscow apartments, Swiss bank accounts — and a money trail that…

  • Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project & Vlast (Kazakhstan)
6 min read
Credit: James O’Brien/OCCRP
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
Credit: James O’Brien/OCCRP
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