{"id":37559,"date":"2022-02-25T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T03:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37559"},"modified":"2022-02-25T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T03:07:29","slug":"revealed-credit-suisse-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-and-corrupt-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37559","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-37560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credit_Suisse-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"Credit Suisse\" width=\"582\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credit_Suisse-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credit_Suisse-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credit_Suisse-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credit_Suisse-1536x922.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credit_Suisse.jpg 1760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dqrta9\"><span class=\"dcr-1dqrta9\">A massive leak from one of the world\u2019s biggest private banks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/creditsuisse\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Credit Suisse<\/a>, has exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dqrta9\">Details of accounts linked to 30,000 Credit Suisse clients all over the world are contained in the leak, which unmasks the beneficiaries of more than 100bn Swiss francs (\u00a380bn)* held in one of Switzerland\u2019s best-known financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dqrta9\">The leak points to widespread failures of due diligence by Credit Suisse, despite repeated pledges over decades to weed out dubious clients and illicit funds. The Guardian is part of a consortium of media outlets given exclusive access to the data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1dqrta9\">We can reveal how Credit Suisse repeatedly either opened or maintained bank accounts for a panoramic array of high-risk clients across the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/feb\/20\/credit-suisse-secrets-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-corrupt-politicians\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2022\/feb\/20\/credit-suisse-secrets-leak-unmasks-criminals-fraudsters-corrupt-politicians<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive leak from one of the world\u2019s biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, has exposed the hidden wealth of clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, corruption and other serious crimes. Details of accounts linked to 30,000 Credit Suisse clients all over the world are contained in the leak, which unmasks the beneficiaries of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=37559\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37561,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37559\/revisions\/37561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}