Credit Suisse Charged Over Money Laundering in Cocaine Ring
Bloomberg 12/17/2020 Hugo Miller
(Bloomberg) Credit Suisse Group AG and one of its former bank managers have been indicted by Swiss prosecutors over the lender’s alleged failure to prevent money laundering by a Bulgarian drug ring.
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The Zurich-based bank failed to take all the organizational measures that were “reasonable and required” to guard against the laundering of cash made from the sale of cocaine that was then used to buy real estate in Switzerland and Bulgaria, the Office of the Swiss Attorney General said on Thursday.
Swiss prosecutors can target banks criminally if they believe institutions didn’t do enough to screen clients for obvious ties to illicit activity. Just last month, Swiss judges scolded a unit of Societe Generale SA for not being more careful in accepting money from convicted fraudster Allen Stanford.
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