Skip to main content

tv   [untitled]    June 8, 2011 6:30am-7:00am PDT

9:30 am
free. free. free. free bird your videos for your media drug free media are cheap on tom. what's an artsy line from moscow i mean he's now a brit has lots of fresh air strikes pound the libyan capital as nato as collates its own garden just launch a defiant colonel gadhafi meanwhile russia's envoy to libya says both gadhafi and the rebels agree there is no way to end the crisis through war. france and britain are pushing for a un resolution condemning syria's government crackdown on demonstrations but russia says the lessons of the libyan stalemate mean you won't support the new rules. and all countries around the world are calling for strong tast for all the
9:31 am
tomic plans to avoid a new fukushima the u.k. is committed to expanding its facilities experts warned london's persistence with its nuclear project poses a massive security threat and. next year in our t.v. look at what comes next the deposed tunisian president and the beleaguered libyan leader as are reports on the secret bank accounts a strong armed regime. billions of dollars are escaping 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 mrs self what we call money laundering for sort of illicit 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. towards five billion dollars well barak with
9:32 am
this to make a seventy billion do traces the dark fortunes and how can the bankers keep their reputation clean that's a legend of hollywood that we had had no i know numerous 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. but. it. seems there is no backing in the house so maybe nobody from living in this building
9:33 am
the sixteenth district of paris ave for sure this is a quiet fashionable neighborhood. days nearby an excellent view of 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 as these are embassy grounds. i will always see ok of him as a matter of fact the building houses no missions the dogs are simply trying to protect the privacy of the big shot string. and. profit organization should visits this neighborhood have a new fashions also known as having a dictator is because a lot of. african leaders and leaders in the word owns a building or an apartment. plant was lucky this time the owner of the apartments appears to be in demand to who works here tell me that he's here like two three
9:34 am
times a year so i know it's not here very very often so that's why it's pretty amazing that he's here right now. church or 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 extremism president ben ali it had been taken out of tunisia and hidden in european bank accounts. and to museum itself the search for the next president's money began t.j.'s after he fled the country in january two thousand and eleven however should correct service started investigating ben ali's finances long before just kind of pollution according to the organizations estimates the ex president's family may be worth as much as five billion euros. swiss journalist mildred zaki
9:35 am
has spent several years investigating the financial wheeling and dealing with some leaders of the third world countries but even she can only give a rough estimate of the fortunes we have here is ben ali it was five billion dollars. we've estimated at seventeen billion it was serious sources that this was the telegraph. that's 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 our center covering all of libya's state when companies have some links to the colonel's family. oil companies such as turmoil are the main asset even swiss customers know whose country like ours humans . but they belong to. libya most of the early fellows with.
9:36 am
its libyan oil the libyan leader entrusted his son hannibal with fiscal operations in europe the duffy junior subsequently booked himself into a plush hotel in geneva. because of the president wilson it's a luxury very exclusive and beautiful heart we have the biggest and the most expensive suit in the europe and only the richest people of the world can stay. in this you would have such clients like i read the president shakes more narcs. but i also was doing his troops to switzerland for a mere fifty eight thousand euros to get to this exclusive hotel gets to do looks presidential suite with expensive decorations in the finest taste customers that literally trade on gold now you can see the floor made of gold where in the
9:37 am
restaurant lebanese this is our restaurant with lebanese cuisine with a very large sherry design and very refined traditional cuisine 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 travel to duffy and his pregnant wife and i believe charged with assaulting tons of policemen for him to come down to the lobby. he didn't want them to come so he waited for some time then they decided to go into the room so they went into the room in this situation talk. about kind of. this swiss newspaper tribune indigenes printed pictures of both gadhafi jr under arrest and the hotel attendants that were attacked trouble found
9:38 am
a lawsuit against the newspaper yet the biggest consequence of the incident for switzerland was libya's boycott of economic cooperation assume this crisis broke out between. libya the leading authorities have withdrew and we've grown. apart at least or even the important part of the money that was deposit who did the swiss banks khadafi and switzerland had a political problem they fell out with each other so there's only five hundred million only in inverted commas five hundred million left in switzerland marc pitt professor at basel university has long been tracking money laundering methods in his view before civil war broke out perceived himself as libya's omnipotent master . for that reason he didn't even bother to disguise the movement of billions of dollars graffy didn't spend all that much effort
9:39 am
to hide the money it was pretty open most of this. like you have these thirty billion in the us they were easily found because they were identified with gaddafi but in most cases leaders of developing countries results in much more intricate nontransparent schemes as a rule the money goes around the world before landing in anonymous country counts in europe. less it's that 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 this eerie. or new york. for
9:40 am
you from them are. very reassuring. that's why where we are working on this is maybe she's the guardian of all the assets that we have found still waiting of course the for more. daniel jealous class works for the center for asset recovery these days investigating the financial nationalizations of ex heads of state takes the meticulousness of a 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 our country must do everything to trace the assets in turn will tell its class hopes that investigating will become easier following the revolutionary tsunami in north africa. but it will lucian of course the positive impact played brings in
9:41 am
a new government and the government is under pressure to act they cannot forget about the case we are seeing that in egypt now where millions of people are again on the street to all for follow up action and two days after the mubarak was arrested so it seems to be important that the civil society the population at large is also fighting for this justice place the way the international center for asset recovery looks for the billions of dollars hidden in europe it will deny says master classes for investigators from developing countries they're taught how to pinpoint traces of money this is vanished from national budgets. well we do make some more requests for example is that money was transferred into and then a country there would be a move to a legal assistance to that country with questing that is such improbable things short of liberia has their positive x.
9:42 am
number of dollars in this particular bank in your country and we feel that this money is only going when he saw wanting to put a through nice bundle of money until quite recently money returning to its home country was the exception rather than the rule of bankers to only free suspicious accounts for a long time but they had no right to send money illicitly taken out of countries back to the national budgets without a request from the new governments but usually it's based on a request by the country. we need to explain what we are doing at the conference is it there also we can explain what we can offer about the request us to come from a country we do not have the mandate to investigate of our own but many believe that the law passed 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 new tourist playlet banking secrecy being lifted altogether which is something the swiss bankers have always been proud
9:43 am
of people away from the onset of a new era and age of total financial transparency. culture is the same i understand my client is probably the real muslim looking to be the others in the market the war on drugs has been declared a failure for us government has spent more than two point five trillion dollars fighting this campaign over the past forty. jumps the official anti obligation to your i phone or i pod touch from the i choose up still. the geology schleiff on the go. video on demand parties money for old costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the call. the close up team has been to the golden grand region
9:44 am
thank you own the turning point of the world more to. this time the party goes to the region where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transit in their ancestors' steps and where the mysterious city on the deadlocks world come the republic are the subjects russia close up on our chief. national symbol which bryson. evolves from finest impressions. who through stunts not seen don't succumb.
9:45 am
i don't. think. we says where mysteries are valuable. she booked out the entire hotel she stayed in
9:46 am
an enormous room the other rooms were occupied by servants and bodyguards. you lunda a chambermaid at this last show tell her no idea who the amicable and polite man really was they 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 very nice said that he was a generous well managed client well i'm young and we got double pay for that modest . haiti's ecstatic tater zone called the valley a was the occupants of those fashionable premises with an excellent view of a nearby lake investigators put the sum of money he took out of the country and hundreds of millions of dollars. chose the day it was born in haiti in one thousand nine hundred sixty five he had to leave his country but he
9:47 am
has vivid memories of the regime the devaluate family established on the island. came to power in one thousand and fifty five seven. two years later it was it was. better and are still students but against to our audience there were for oppression and it was very very dangerous to live in france raja 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. invented a scheme was unable to his family to amass a fabulous fortune over the course of nearly two decades duvali a senior masterminded the so-called presidential foundation or haitian businessman with cutie brown to contribute to it according to various estimates the foundation
9:48 am
grew by three million dollars each year after the death of francois duvalier 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 foundation in this time which was opened by. by the mother of baby doc and the wife of a dog and this familiar foundation. owns the money of the family and the foundation same thing bank accounts and that's it's a was a bank transfer laundering money under duvalier a was much easier than it is today means of bogus firms nor numerous money transfers were necessary money from the state treasury and that received from other countries especially monetary in asia
9:49 am
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. a divided. nation in between it's. your fishel account holder is the vision i called foundation however it was clear to everyone the real. divide in your family. in the one nine hundred eighty six to two vali had to flee to europe then he shared his time between paris and the 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 of hollywood. and we had had no i know
9:50 am
numerous accounts since more than thirty years what we have is that we have what we call a number account which patek to 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 region of the fund and there is no animals 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 of tough business competition and the reason is very simple is that we are in a business which is puffy to build and today people who wants to take market share of a profitable business and america are. not just anglo-saxon but america especially
9:51 am
always like to apply us lol outside. united states this x. . valley a family money was frozen in bank accounts for nearly a quarter of a century the swiss would dearly 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 and you know came into effect in early two thousand and eleven journalists have dubbed the act. now politicians and big time businessmen will find it difficult to open an account in swiss banks the procedure is now much more complicated because presidents government ministers and monarchs along to a group of so-called politically exposed persons top foreign clients can be denied banking services all together so if it's a president of the palomar and if it's head of
9:52 am
a big public company we will not do business with as a matter of fact only people as well as x. to taters will now have to worry about the confidentiality of the bank accounts in january two thousand and eleven rudolf elmer gave two discs to julian asuncion 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 there's no way. to wiki leaks like that again. thanks in order to thank you investigating and making a decision only elmos actions have brought him 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
9:53 am
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 that 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 and eight the german state court because of this of the more than one billion of europe backed such actions through a mixed response from germany bankers didn't mince their words saying the german government's behavior was no better than the to steve's. a fine day to shame and a scandal that german authority get away with using the possession of stolen goods in hoshyar in switzerland if you steal good and then you
9:54 am
sell it you go to jail it's a kind switzerland's famous reputation for banking secrecy that come under attack a few months before that u.s. authorities had pressurized 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 the swiss banks who said guide promethean march two thousand i. and it had been ten years that respects the christie had been eroding actively that had been. outperformed by anglo-saxon trusts the journalist minutes zacky maintains that banks have been compelled to be more open to the public the fact is that the swiss banking system is losing an underclass war with anglo-saxon financial institutions the fight with bank accounts with a shady past is only an excuse that anglo saxons have killed the swiss in order to
9:55 am
prosper themselves on the track so there's a knock at you know how much is the tax evasion market much money is in that 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 speed he's expecting new up tables in the center of the continent over stolen funds. maybe it would be the case one day like the prince and then the recently our other countries you know. two years ago or one year ago was no a democracy it was a cheap form they we we'd be able to work normally in the it. was according to sure but activists real says selling real estate
9:56 am
in what is known as the dictator's avenue in a prestigious part of terrace will experience no drop in the numbers of clients. the schemes used by some leaders of third world countries to hide in the billions of dollars has simply become more intricate so. there is still a long way to go before the end of this international blockbuster about big dirty bomb. in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph mainstreet university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. gone all the main risk issues let's get to ninety five percent of all competent scientists indy's feel it's
9:57 am
our version for the producers site and only five percent. read genuinely independent. there's not a lot of science that says train genic fish is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks at there's a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if it transgenic fish escape some kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of the fish population i don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children strangers in our congress here in the united states legislatures throughout the world we vote all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the permanent genetic future of life on earth.
9:58 am
9:59 am
all. in the czech republic she's available in. central europe. most full stop aida which are based in bosnia and and herzegovina.

33 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on