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The Swiss Attorney General’s Office announced today that it has filed an indictment against Credit Suisse, world agencies reported.
According to the indictment, the notorious vault has not done enough to stop the money laundering of a Bulgarian mobster from drug trafficking. It is said that he was a fighter and played a key role in laundering millions in a Swiss bank. The Bulgarian drove a car full of money to the Confederacy, reported Bloomberg and the Associated Press.
Although no name is reported in the posts, it is most likely Evelin Banev – Brendo.
The proceeds from the sale of medicines, often in small denomination banknotes, were deposited in Swiss bank accounts from 2004 to at least 2007 and used to buy real estate, mainly in Bulgaria and Switzerland.
Credit Suisse has not taken all the organizational measures that were “reasonable and necessary” to prevent cash from selling cocaine and then using it to buy real estate in Switzerland and Bulgaria, according to a statement issued Thursday by the Swiss Attorney General’s Office.
It claims that a former director of Credit Suisse and two alleged members of the criminal organization have also been charged before the Swiss Federal Criminal Court.
“Credit Suisse is accused of failing to take all the organizational measures that were reasonable and necessary to prevent the laundering of assets belonging to and under the control of the criminal organization,” the Swiss prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Swiss prosecutors can prosecute banks if they believe these institutions have not done enough to verify clients and their money for obvious links to illegal activities. Just last month, Swiss judges complained to a local branch of French bank Societe Generale SA that they were no more careful when accepting money than convicted scammer Alan Stanford.
Switzerland’s second largest bank says it “wholeheartedly” denies the allegations against it and is convinced its former employee is innocent.
“Credit Suisse notes with surprise the decision of the Swiss Attorney General’s Office to press charges against the bank and other countries in an investigation that has already lasted for more than twelve years,” the statement said.
