the reports. bringing you the latest. from. the future. this is our senior national from moscow thanks for being with us stories this wednesday night france and britain are pushing for un resolution condemning syria's government crackdown on demonstrations but russia says the lessons of the libyan stalemate support. the rebels agree there's no way to end the crisis through war. libyan capital to fight. and while countries around the world. for coming in from the case.

and experts. project security threat. next tonight we look at what connects the former president on the police libyan leader reports on the secret bank accounts of strong regimes. 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 these people are using their very very traditional mis itself what we call money laundering what sort of illicit schemes to presidents government ministers unknown accused to launder money how much money have they been able to talk away in secret bank accounts than i was five billion dollars. we've estimated that seven hundred billion traces the dark fortunes and how can the

bankers keep their reputations clean that's a legend of hollywood we had had no i know the most accounts seem small than certain yet those who compiled 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 bank in the house so maybe nobody living in this building the sixteenth district of paris ave for sure this is

a quiet fashionable neighborhood. near by 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 so i don't always see ok them. as a matter of fact the building houses no diplomatic missions the dogs are simply trying to protect the prissy of the big shots. and. profit organization should often visits this neighborhood as a new fashion also known as devon you have to take hers because a lot of. african leaders and leaders in the word owns a building or an apartment on this avenue clare is lucky this time the owner of the apartments appears to be in demand the courts here tell me that he'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

he'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 has been taken out of tunisia and hidden in european bank accounts. by. engineers here itself the search for the next president's money began two days after he fled the country in january two thousand and eleven however should correct of this started investigating ben ali's finances long before the just kind of pollution according to the organizations estimates the ex president's family may be worth as much as five billion europe's. swiss journalist mirrored zaki has spent several years investigating financial wheeling and dealing with some leaders of the world countries but even she can only give

a rough estimates of the fortunes we have here's ben ali it was five billion dollars mobarak we've estimated at seventy billion it was serious also that this was the telegraph i said ok. here we. went up to one hundred twenty billion it is believed 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 patch or lack cars years . but they belong to. maybe most of the early fellows with. its libyan oil the libyan leader entrusted his son the frontal with fiscal

operations in europe to duffy junior subsequently put himself into a plush hotel in geneva. wasn't present also it's a. very exclusive and beautiful hotel we have the biggest most expensive sears in the europe and only the richest people of the world can stay. in this you would have such clients like a rabbit president shakes more narcs oligarchs. also was that during his trips just with someone for a mere fifty eight thousand euros a guest in this exclusive hotel gets to 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. restaurant led by me this is our restaurant was lebanese cuisine was a very luxury design and very refined lebanese traditional cuisine and

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 on a bill to jeffrey just pregnant wife on a bill was charged with assaulting a tender policeman asked for him to come down to the lobby. he didn't want to come so they waited for some time and again they decided to go into the room so they went into. this situation took her arrested. swiss newspaper tribune geneve printed pictures of both gadhafi jr under arrest and the hotel attendants that were attacked campbell found 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.

libya that the libyan authorities have withdrew with grown. apart at least or even important part of the money towards the positive in the swiss banks gadhafi 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 there in switzerland mark pitch professor at basel university has long been tracking money laundering methods in his view the first 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 god alfie didn't spend all that much effort to hide the money it was pretty open most of these. like you have these

thirty billion in the u.s. they were easily found because they were identified with gadhafi but 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 letter 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 regulate big financial centers london zurich or new york. where these two of them are. very reassuring. that's why where we are

working. this is phoebe she's the car journey of all the assets that we have found still waiting of course the four more foot bigger daniel tellus class works for the center for asset recovery he says investigating the financial national nations of x. 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 so in that situation a country must do everything to trace and locate the assets eternal tellus class hopes that investigating will become easier following the revolutionary tsunami in north africa. they will lucian of course the positive impact they did brings in a new government and the government is under pressure to act they cannot forget about the case in egypt now where millions of people again on the street who all

score follow up action and two days after is the mubarak was arrested so it seems to be important to 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 its organizers master classes for investigators from developing countries they taught how to pinpoint traces of money it's done it's true national budgets. well we do make four more requests for example is that money was transferred into another country that would do a move for legal assistance to that country requesting that is such impossible things short of liberia has their positive x. amount of dollars in this particular bank in your country and we think that this

money's in the go monies wanting to put a freeze on god morning until quite recently money returning to its home country was the exception rather than the rule bunches to only free suspicious accounts for a long time but they have no right to send money illicitly taken out of countries back into the national budgets without a request from the new governments but usually it's based on a request by the country. we do explain what we are doing a conference is that there also we can explain what we can offer about the request as to call them from a country we do not have the mandate to investigate over our own but many believe there's a law passed in switzerland to nearly two thousand and eleven to make it possible to change the situation in a significant way already there is talk of the tourist flail of banking secrecy being lifted altogether which is something the swiss bankers have always been proud of the people who waits in the onset of a new era and age of total financial transparency.

in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph ben straight university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. drawn all the main risk issues . is that ninety five percent of all competent scientists. indy's fears are ripping for the producers side and only five percent are really genuinely independent. there's not a lot of science that says strange and if this is unhealthy for people to consume which is what the food and drug administration looks out there is a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if a transgenic fish escapes what kind of horrible impact will it have on the rest of

the fish population don't know what this might do to us or our children or our children's children in our congress here in the united states or our 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. culture is the same i understand marley and therefore you will misunderstand be at least five years in the market 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.

i'm. not. going to get. that. we says where mysteries are valuable. she looked out the entire hotel he stayed in an enormous room oconee to other rooms were occupied by his servants and bodyguards . yolanda the chambermaid at this last show tell had no idea who the amicable and polite man really was a completely took over the hotel for

a month to get 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 man its client well i'm young and we got double pay for that want to buy you pay t.v. sex take 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. chose the day it was born in haiti and nine hundred sixty five he had to leave his country but he has vivid memories of the regime the devaluate family established on the island. came to power in one nine hundred. fifty five seven and two years later to us it was. after.

against us destroy against two koreans there were a lot of for oppression and it was very very dangerous to live in france was a valley a rule the poorest country of the western hemisphere from one nine hundred fifty seven to nine hundred seventy one a fosters an atmosphere of fear and repression on the island moreover. invented a scheme is unable to his family to amass a fabulous fortune over the course of nearly two decades duvali a senior mastermind of the so-called presidential foundation haitian businessman would you to pound to contribute to it according to various estimates the foundation grew by three million dollars each year after the death of friends who are devalued 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 and their money we're talking about now in switzerland is the money

belonging to fund ation in eastern star which was opened by by the by the mother of baby doc and the wife of a dog and these familiar foundation. bones the money of the family and the foundation simply a bank account in switzerland that's it say was bank transfer laundering money and to devalue it was much easier than it is today in need of bogus firms nor numerous money transfers were necessary money from the state treasury and that received from other countries a similar tarion aid was transferred to a foundation open by members of the family of the head of state from there it went to europe. the account was not. a foundation in between. your fishel account holder it's the foundation called all we. were. it was clear to everyone the real.

divide in your family. from the one nine hundred eighty six through to valley had to flee to europe there 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 norway 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 naught i know numerous accounts since more than thirty years what we have is that we have what we call a number account which patek 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 anonymise pm your a bow 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 parfit able and today people who wants to take market share of profitable business and america are. not just anglo-saxon but america especially always like to apply us lol outside. united states these acts craft they talk ality. 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 for the item country a new nor came into effect in early two thousand and eleven journalists have dubbed it the devaluate act. now politicians and big time businessmen will find it difficult to work on accounts and 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 all together so if it's the president of the palin and. head of a big public company we will not do business which is as a matter of fact ordinary people as well as acts to 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 to discuss 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 because they know it. to wiki leaks like say that again be fully thanks in order to thank you for investigating and making a decision on. elma's 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 journalists investigating fests the secret banking information is yen's brown bush of the financial times the first scandal of his kind broke in 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 someone 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 and the more than one billion of europe back such actions drew a mixed response in germany bankers didn't mince their words saying the german government's behavior was no better than that of steve's i find it to shame and a scandal that german authority get away with using the perception of stolen goods you know i shop in switzerland if you steal good and then you sell it you go to jail it's a kind switzerland's famous reputation for banks from secrecy that come under attack a few months before that u.s. authorities have pressurised u.b.s. into releasing information about the accounts of thousands of its american consumers they were suspected of tax evasion in their home country when did. you

say died probably smart thousand like. and it had been kind years that swiss bank except risky had been eroded activity that had been. out performed by. trusts the journalist minutes exactly 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 cleared 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 prosper themselves on the tax evasion market you know how much is that not much money is given up thirteen trillion thirteen thousand billion. undeclared money world wide it's no longer also it's like a cult was. i 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 people in the center of the continent over stolen funks. maybe it would be the case one day like . the recently. two years ago or one year ago. democracy it was. that one day we would be able to work in the it. was according to should put activists real to selling real estate and what is known as the dictator's avenue in a prestigious part of paris 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 will simply become more intricate. there is still

a long way to go before the end of this international cloth bust about a month. the close up team has been to the golden grand richard thank the turning point i'm learning more to. his time party goes to the region where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transit in their ancestors camps and where the mysterious city of the deadlocks world come from the republic of north of sacha russia close up on r.g.p. . it was created to serve public interests to inform and to entertain.

these days there's nothing easier than opening a new media outlet but there is nothing harder than revoking its license in case of corruption. from. san antonio in trouble. the problem you can invoke in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the daily newspapers radio stations television stations the cable out what can you tell me that that sounds like democracy the public opinion versus f.c.c. broadcast blues on r g.

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