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The financial market regulator announced this week that it would open so-called enforcement proceedings against Credit Suisse (CS) as a result of the observation by Iqbal Khan (44). Finma is particularly interested in how “protection and protection activities” have been documented and controlled within the bank.
It is the umpteenth chapter of the endless Paradeplatz theater. And indeed, the audience could continue to watch with amusement as those involved publicly dismantle themselves, their employers and the entire financial sector. But all this is no laughing matter.
T. († 52), the tragic figure of the affair
The reason is the fate of security expert T. * († 52), the link between the CS and the private detectives who observed that Khan: T. committed suicide last fall, a week after the observation operation was discovered . It is the tragic figure of the matter.
T. worked for the cantonal police for years, then as a security officer for large corporations. In 2013 he founded a sole proprietorship. Purpose: “To provide advisory services on security matters and security prevention”.
In other words: T. was a problem solver, a supposed solver for companies, family offices and individuals. One of T’s biggest customers was CS. According to “NZZ”, it is said that he had his own badge at the big bank. Regardless of the difficulties the bank faced, T. was there to solve them, with the utmost discretion.
But that was in jeopardy after Khan’s surveillance broke down. His accusation of alleged threats and coercion resulted in the prosecution ordering a search of T.’s home and office. On September 24, 2019, the canton police confiscated numerous computers, laptops, cameras and cell phones there. T. committed suicide the same day.
The evidence remains locked
Now it is clear: the house searches and seizures were for nothing and again for nothing, because the Meilen mandatory measures court ruled a few weeks ago that the seized objects cannot be evaluated.
In the July 13 ruling, which is available to SonntagsBlick, it says: “There is a lack of sufficient suspicion or the necessary connection of the sealed documents to the crimes in the room. For the Public Ministry, the sentence means a setback. For CS, however, a great success. After all, it was the bank itself that had requested that the seized items be sealed.
Solo: Why was it so important to CS that T.’s computers, laptops, and cell phones remain untested? The most obvious explanation: the bank feared that the opening of the seal could reveal more intelligence activities, shameful at best, illegal at worst.
Credit Suisse is silent
At SonntagsBlick’s request, the CS declined to comment on the reasons for the seal request. The bank is also silent on the mandatory measures court ruling, with reference to Finma’s ongoing proceedings.
However, it is clear: the SC gives the ruling of the mandatory measures court reasons to applaud. Not only because the secret activities of the big bank remain under lock and key, but also because the court practically issues him a clean health certificate.
The reasoning for the sentence reads: “The observation report clearly shows what type of recordings the main suspects (private detectives; ed.) Have made. To what extent they would have violated the private or secret area of the victim (Iqbal Khan; Ed.) It is not evident. “
And further: “The edited documents show that the crimes of coercion and threats in the room were obviously not supported by the observation client (Credit Suisse; ed.)”.
CS superiors should note this finding with satisfaction. Very different from the observed Iqbal Khan and his wife. His lawyer, however, does not want to attach importance to the judgment of the mandatory measures court: “The considerations made in it are completely irrelevant to the current criminal proceedings. The Khan family was also not a party to these mandatory measures court proceedings. “
The prosecutor throws the gun to the point
That sounds combative. The prosecutor, however, shows signs of fatigue. Prosecutors regret the decision of the mandatory measures court. However, they refrain from proceeding to the next instance. “The decision is conclusively justified, so the prosecutor accepted it,” his media office said.
Therefore, the sentence is final and the CS is definitely blameless. The big bank just has to deal with Finma.
Private investigators hired by the CS, on the other hand, still face criminal proceedings for alleged coercion and threats. The next date is September 23rd. Then Iqbal Khan, his wife and one of the accused private detectives have to go to the prosecution.
The central question will be whether the Khan couple can make it credible that the tailor put them in “mortal fear”, as stated in the criminal complaint.
So the last curtain on the Paradeplatz theater is far from falling.
* Name known to publisher
Sep 17, 2019 Khan realizes that he is being followed. At the corner of Fraumünsterstrasse and Börsenstrasse in Zurich, he reaches the private detectives hired by CS. Khan files criminal charges for threats and duress.
August 29, 2019 It is revealed that Iqbal Khan plans to move to UBS. According to a report from the Homburger law firm, Pierre-Olivier Bouée, CS operations manager, gave his head of security the task of monitoring Khan on the same day.
Sep 24, 2019 Security guard T. *, who mediated between CS and the detective agency, takes his own life. It is said that his name reached the media through CS. On the same day, the police conducted a search of T.
February 7, 2020 CEO Tidjane Thiam, the matter of shadows is still fatal. Thomas Gottstein, the former Swiss director of Credit Suisse, replaces the Ivorian.
Dec 17, 2019 The “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” publishes that Khan’s observation was not an isolated incident. The newspaper presents evidence that in February 2019, Peter Goerke, CS director of human resources, was persecuted.
September 20, 2019 The blog “Inside Paradeplatz” publishes the tracking of Khan and the arrest of detectives. Then more and more details are known. The central question is: What did Tidjane Thiam, CEO of CS, know?
September 2, 2020 Finma is initiating what are known as enforcement proceedings against CS. Above all, the authority wants to know how the “surveillance and security activities” within the bank have been documented and controlled.
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