it's. good to be. at the head right straight out here analyse. the libyan capital has enjoyed the most intensive nato bombing since operations began with sixty raids targeting colonel gadhafi compound like the one in while a russian peace envoy has met rebels in benghazi to use talks instead in iraq to this small libya's process. russia is in warning against interference in syria's uprising or in the house of night in point or action of

a president assad's crackdown so this is the arab world watchers accuse france and britain trying to reassert their infants some. plus the u.k. is stealing ahead with plans to expand its nuclear program in concerns that terrorists the online sites as targets and sort of fills the city it seemed an industrial disaster years ago is still basically recycling on to college radio active material. when next we look at what connects the deposed to d.c. and the league of the libyan the head of gadhafi as altie reports on a secret bank account so strong on the regime's. billions of dollars are scraping from developing countries to financial safe havens in europe and secret bank accounts bogus companies and offshore zones are all in on the act of the mess it's that these people are using their very very traditional mis itself what we call money laundering we have sort of the list of schemes to

presidents government ministers unmonitored she used to launder money how much money have they been able to talk away in secret bank accounts than i was five billion dollars mobarak we've estimated at seventy billion to traces the dark fortunes and how can the bankers keep their reputation clean that's a legend of hollywood and we had had no i don't mean most accounts since more than thirty years who compelled swiss bankers to disclose information about their clients will the infamous veil of privacy over the country's bank accounts finally be lifted for good. or. bad. but.

it seems there is no bang in the house so maybe nobody for living in this building the sixteenth district of paris avenue for this is a quiet fashionable neighborhood. near by an excellent view the eiffel tower can be seen from the window the inhabitants of these premises are no ordinary people and they prefer to keep a low profile so you can take pictures here why is that these are embassy grounds. i don't always see ok them. as a matter of fact the building houses no missions the dogs are simply trying to protect the privacy of the big shots staying there. an activist nonprofit organization should often visit this neighborhood as a new fashion is also known as you have a new love taters because a lot of african leaders leaders in the word owns

a building or an apartment on this having. the owner of the apartments appears to be in demand the works here tell me that it's here like two three times a year so no it's not here very very often so that's why it's pretty amazing that it's here right now. shelter activists investigate the shady financial deals of past and present political leaders across the world one of the more recent investigations concerned the money belonging to x. tunisian president ben ali it had been taken out of tunisia and hidden in the european bank accounts. into museum itself the search for the next president's money began t. days after he fled the country in january two thousand and eleven however shirker activists started investigating ben ali's finances long before the just kind of

illusion according to the organizations estimates the x. president's family may be worth as much as five billion euros. swiss journalist amir exactly has spent several years investigating the financial wheeling and dealing of some leaders of the world's countries but even she can only get a rough estimates of the four chips where for years ben ali it was five billion dollars more barak with this to make the seventy billion it was serious also that this was the telegraph. estimates went up to one hundred twenty billion it is believed that the family of the libyan leader is africa's richest the gadhafi clan keeps billions of dollars in bank accounts according to specialists from the international center for asset recovery all of libya's state run companies have some links to the colonel's family. oil companies such as

turmoil are the main asset even swiss customers know whose cattle like cars use. but they belong to. libya most of the early sellers with. its libyan oil the libyan leader entrusted his son the hannibal with fiscal operations in europe gadhafi jr subsequently booked him selfe into a plush hotel in geneva. you know what i'm president wilson it's a. very exclusive and beautiful hotel we have the biggest and the most expensive sears in the europe and only the richest people of the world can stay. in this you would never have such clients like a rabid president shakes oligarchs who. also was asked during his trip to switzerland for a mere fifty eight thousand euros a guest in this exclusive hotel gets

a deluxe presidential suite with expensive decorations in the finest taste customers that literally trade on gold now you can see the floor made of call where in the restaurant lebanese this is our restaurant with lebanese cuisine with a very luxury design and very refined lebanese traditional cuisine an unpleasant incident that took place at this hotel in the summer of two thousand and eight solid relations between the alpine republic and libya for a long time on july the fifth swiss police detained runnable khadafi and his pregnant wife i believe charged with assaulting her and policemen for him to come down to the lobby. he didn't want to come so they waited for some time then they decided to go into the room so they went improvement in this situation. and arrested. the swiss newspaper tribune indigenes printed pictures

of both gadhafi jr under arrest and the hotel attendants that were attacked cannibal found a lawsuit against the newspaper yet the biggest consequence of the incident for switzerland was libya's boycott of economic cooperation in this crisis broke out between. libya that the even authorities have withdrew and withdrawn. a part at least or even important part of the money towards the positive the swiss banks gadhafi and switzerland have a political problem they fell out with much other so there's only five hundred million only in inverted commas five hundred million left in switzerland monk pitt professor at basel university has long been tracking money laundering methods and his view the civil war broke out gadhafi perceived himself as libya's omnipotent

master. for that reason he didn't even bother to disguise the movement of billions of dollars and gaddafi didn't spend all that much effort to hide the money he was pretty open most of this. like you have these thirty billion in the u.s. they were easily found because they were identified with gaddafi was in most cases leaders of developing countries resort to much more intricate nontransparent schemes as a rule the money goes around the world before landing in anonymous bank accounts in europe. mess it's the these people are using their very very traditional methods of what we call money laundering for instance found a company. an offshore company a little box company you have a british virgin islands company with a fantasy name this company opens bank accounts for it in cyprus

for instance and then you send the money from cyprus through the veil regulated big financial centers london zurich. or in new york. the front of her. very biggest come in. that's why where we are working. this is phoebe she's the guardian of all the assets that we have still waiting of course the four more bigger daniel tellus class works for the center for asset recovery these days investigating the financial national nations of x. heads of state takes the meticulousness of the good book keeper rather than the skills of an intelligence officer once you have found the money and the accounts you can start to confiscate the money but very often we have problems in finding where the money is so in that situation a country must do everything to trace and locate the assets. daniel tellus craft

hopes that investigation will become easier following the revolutionary tsunami in north africa. oh they will lose and of course the positive impact three it brings in a new government and the government is under pressure to act they cannot forget about the case that in egypt now where millions of people again on the street who also follow up action and two days after the mubarak was arrested so it seems to be important but the civil society the population at large is also fighting for distrust trace the way the international center for asset recovery looks for the billions of dollars didn't in europe and organizes master classes for investigators from developing countries they're taught how to pinpoint traces of money which has run its true national budgets. well we do make some more requests for example or is that money it was transferred into and then

a country that we do and moved from legal as system to that control with preston that has such impossible things show of liberia has their positive x. number of dollars in this particular bank in your country and we feel that this money's in the game when he saw want you to put a freeze on that money until quite recently money returning to its home country was the exception rather than the rule bankers could only freeze suspicious accounts for a long time but they have no right to send money illicitly taken out of countries back to the national budgets without a request from the new governments though usually it's based on a request by the country. we do explain what we are doing of course for others isn't there also we can explain what we can offer about the request has to come from a company we don't know tough to mandate to investigate on our own but many believe the solution cost in switzerland to nearly two thousand and eleven will make it

possible to change the situation in a significant way already there is talk of the tourist playlet banking secrecy being lifted altogether which is something the swiss bankers have always been proud of the blue waves in the onset of a new era and age of total financial transparency. culture is the same i understand my fairly handy for the real me from the bank would be the buyers in the market the war on drugs has been declared a failure the us government has spent more than two point five trillion dollars fighting this campaign over the past forty. more than a month. in one of the most extreme environments on the planet. this is and charge it up and people have to be aware that they are far away from civilization sean thomas discovers what makes antarctica so special and attractive for many wildlife

in antarctica is a place where you live and runs an. expedition to the bottom of the earth arctic. i'm. going to. have a special now luis is aware mr. she booked the entire hotel she stayed in an enormous room well connected other rooms were occupied by his servants and bodyguards. yolanda the chambermaid at this lush hotel and no idea who the on the table and polite man really was he completely took over the hotel for a month it was on the agenda. i sometimes came across him in the corridor. she

always said hello and in general he was a very nice if he was a generous well managed client well i'm young and we got double pay for that none of them want to get by you. haiti's ecstatic tater claude duvalier was the occupants of those fashionable premises with an excellent view of the nearby lake investigators put the sum of money he took out of the country and hundreds of millions of dollars. shows a little ray was born in haiti in one thousand nine hundred sixty five he had to leave his country but he has vivid memories of the regime of the devaluate family established on the island. purgatory nineteen. fifty four seven and two years and it was it was. after. but against to our audience there were for

a position and it was very very dangerous to leave. france want to valley a ruled the poorest country of the western hemisphere from one nine hundred fifty seven to nine hundred seventy one he fostered an atmosphere of fear and repression on the island moreover he invented a scheme that enabled his family to amass a fabulous fortune over the course of nearly two decades devalue a senior masterminded the so-called presidential foundation haitian businessmen with q-tip down to contribute to it according to various estimates the foundation grew by three million dollars each year after the death of from swat valley a popularly known as papa doc his son john claude duvalier took his place baby doc pursued his father's policies in all spheres including the financial one. money we're talking about now in switzerland is the money belonging to sunday sion in eastern time which was opened by my daughter by the mother of baby doc and the wife

of look. familiar from nation. bones and money of the family and the foundation's bank accounts and that's it's a was a bank transfer laundering money under duvalier a was much easier than it is today i mean the bogus firms know numerous money transfers were necessary money from the state treasury and that received from other countries as you money tarion aid was transferred to a foundation opened by members of the family of the head of state from that it went to europe. but the account was not. to be evaluated. in between is to be. your fictional account holder is the vision. we. were it was clear to everyone the real. divide in your family.

from the one nine hundred eighty six to two vali had to flee to europe there he shares his time between paris and a fashionable hotel on the border with switzerland he made several unsuccessful attempts to get access to the multi-million fortunes in the way in swiss banks since the early two thousand switzerland has been vigorously trying to rid itself of the image of a country whose financial institutions always welcome money without questioning its origin that's a legend hollywood. and we had had no or only accounts since more than thirty years what we have is that we have what we call a number account which part kept your name inside the bank the employee don't see the name of the client but you cannot all put in an account in switzerland without giving your passport your own region of the function and there

is no anonymity pm you're a bull enjoys a good deal of respect and switzerland's banking community some time ago he owned a bank he says the pressure experienced by his colleagues in the past few years is purely a part tough business competition and the reason is very simple is that we are in a business which is a profitable and today people who wants to take market share of profitable business and america are. not just anglo-saxon america especially always like. us lol outsider. the united states does x. . devalue a family money was frozen in bank accounts for nearly a quarter of a century the swiss who daily like to give the billions back to the people of haiti but under a law that was still in force until recently they couldn't do so without an official request from the new government of the island country

a new north came into effect in early two thousand and eleven journalists have dubbed it the devaluate act. now politicians and big time business one will find it difficult to open accounts in swiss banks the procedure is now much more complicated because presidents government ministers and monarchs belong to a group of so-called politically exposed persons top foreign clients can be denied banking services altogether so if it's a president of the palomar and if it's head of a big public company we will not do business with us as a matter of fact ordinary people as well as acts take taters will now have to worry about the confidentiality of their bank accounts in january two thousand and eleven rudolf elmer gave two discs to julian assange the disks contained information on the bank accounts of several thousand customers it was suggested that the people mentioned on the disks were dodging taxes but they want to do it and they go right

. to wiki leaks i say that again. thanks in order to thank you investigative and making a decision on a elmos actions of course in face to face with a swiss court of law the former bank employee may face serious prison time for releasing the confidential data. one of the journalists investigating theft the secret banking information is yen's brown bush of the financial times the first scandal of this kind broken germany in two thousand and seven the german government had acquired a disk from anonymous individuals it contained information about germans hiding their money in foreign bank accounts to avoid paying taxes in germany. there were seven hundred or seven hundred seventy german names on it some of them had to go to

court all of them had to pay money back in the year two thousand the german state got because of this in more than one billion of europe back such actions through mixed response and germany bankers didn't mince their words saying the german government's behavior was no better than that of steve's. i find it a shame and a scandal that german authority get to we using the perception of stolen goods you know how sharp in switzerland if you steal good and then you sell it you go to jail it's a crime switzerland's famous reputation for banking secrecy and come under attack a few months before that u.s. authorities had pressurised u.b.s. into releasing information about the accounts of thousands of its american customers they were suspected of tax evasion in their home country when did swiss banks. march two thousand and nine. and it had been ten years

that respect like secrecy had been eroding actually that had been. dealt performed by saxon trusts the journalist minute zacky maintains that banks have been compelled to be more open to the public the fact is that the swiss banking system is losing and under a cloud war with anglo-saxon financial institutions to fight with bank accounts with a shady past is only an excuse that anglo saxons have killed the swiss in order to prosper themselves on the tax evasion not that you know how much is the tax evasion market how much money is in it thirteen trillion thirteen thousand billion. undeclared money world like it's no longer all swiss bank accounts was. a journalist from the french magazine l'express feels the chain of revolutions in

north africa is only just picking up street he's expecting me well avis in the center of the constant over stolen from us. maybe it would be the case one day like up and see because up until recently our other countries you know tunisia two years ago or one year ago. a democracy it was the. one day we would be able to work nobody in the it. was according to should put activists real to selling real estate on what is known as the dictator's avenue in a prestigious part of tyrus will experience no drop in the numbers of clients. the schemes used by some leaders of third world countries to hide and billions of dollars will simply become more intricate so. there is still a long way to go before the end of this international clock bust up about big money

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