well a day in short ski otoh. the really intrinsic not so boring sure to find this piece of the first earth book oh sure can pinsky switch search will close in the hold go to let me go it's come golden bigotry cochon. this is r t the main stories we're covering for you this. stepping up the pressure on libya the alliance chief the calls for more war efforts from its members and it intensified nato airstrikes on the capital kabul scared sists a peaceful solution is the only option of the talks with the rival sides and. russia puts the brakes on efforts by countries want to take action against syria as the kremlin says could lead to a military intervention moscow is blocking draft resolutions or anywhere that would put pressure on the supervision. of america's prisons are on the front of the

flea injecting death row inmates with drug designs for killing animals rights groups that chemical has not been properly tested and could be painfully school trimmed prisoners to death. for next altie looks at the second income bites in both the special report probing the finances of links to pages. 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. using their very very traditional mis itself workweek or money laundering more sort of illicit schemes to presidents government ministers unknown it's used to launder money how much money have they been able to talk away in secret bank accounts then i was five billion dollars mobarak we've

still got 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 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. or. bad. but. it seems there is no bank 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 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 these are embassy grounds. 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 privacy of the big shots staying there. and actually this show nonprofit organization should visits this neighborhood avenue fesses also known as yet you have dictators because a lot of. african leaders and leaders in the word owns a building or an apartment on this avenue plant was lucky this time 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 you know it's not here very very often so that's why it's pretty amazing that it's here right now. chipper activists investigate the shady financial deals of past and present political leaders across the world one of the more recent investigations concern the money belonging to x. tunisian president ben ali has been taken out of tunisia and hidden and european bank accounts. into news here itself the search for the ex president's money began two days after he fled the country in january two thousand and eleven however should practice started investigating ben ali's finances long before the just monopolization according to the organizations estimates the x. president's family may be worth as much as five billion euros. swiss journalist amir that zaki has spent several years investigating the financial

wheeling and dealing with some leaders of third world countries but even she can only give a rough estimates of the fortunes we have here is ben ali it was five billion dollars. we've estimated at seventy billion it was serious also that the telegraph. the 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 patchouli like cars years. but they belong to. libya most of the early fellows with.

its libyan oil the libyan leader entrusted his son the fallible with fiscal operations in europe and duffy jr subsequently put himself into a plush hotel in geneva. because of president wilson 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 i can stay. in this you would have such clients like a rabid president shakes oligarchs who. also was that during his trips to switzerland for a mere fifty eight thousand euros a guest in this exclusive hotel gets the 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 this is our restaurant was lebanese

cuisine with a very luxury design and very refined lebanese traditional cuisine unpleasant incident that took place in 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 to change from a bill to just the just pregnant wife on a bill was charged with assaulting and turned 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 arrested. swiss newspaper tribune indigenes printed pictures of both gadhafi jr under arrest and the hotel attendants that were attacked trouble found lawsuits 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 that the libyan authorities have withdrew withdrawn. a part at least or even important part of the money towards the positive 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 gadhafi perceived himself as libya's omnipotent master. for that reason he didn't even bother to disguise the movement of billions of dollars of good 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 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. and this 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 letterbox 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 here big financial centers london zurich. or in new york. where

you from them are. very reassuring. that's why where we are working. this is maybe she is the guardian of all the assets that we have found she is still waiting of course the for more political figure daniel tellus cluff 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. donyell tellus kluft hopes that investigating will become easier following the revolutionary tsunami in north africa. they were lucian of course the positive impact they did bring is in a new government and the government is under pressure to act now they cannot forget

about the case that in egypt now where millions of people again on the street the wall schoolfellow walk action and two days after mr mubarak was arrested so it seems to be important that the civil society. the population at large is also fighting for distrust this is the way the international center for asset recovery looks for the billions of dollars hidden in europe it will denounce as master classes for investigators from developing countries they are taught how to pinpoint traces of money which has run its true national budgets. well we do make four more requests for example is that money was transferred into their country then we do a move to a legal assistance to that country requesting that is second part the coffee shop of liberia has there posix that x.

and the more dollars in this particular bank in your country and we feel that this money is illegal money so we want you to put a through face on that money until quite recently money returning to its home country was the exception rather than the rule bunches the only three 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 government but usually it's based on a request by the country. read to explain what we are doing a conference visit there also we can explain what we can offer about the request of from a country we do not have the mandate to investigate of our own but many believe the salute passed in switzerland to early two thousand and eleven to 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

of people awaiting the onset of a new era and age of total financial transparency. the close up team has been to the golden grand richer thank you all the turning point i'm bringing more to. this time the party goes for the region where half of the area is occupied by a nature preserve. where the young generation transit in their ancestors steps down where the mysterious city of the deadlocks world come to the republic of north or south yet to russia close enough to keep. it was created to serve the 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 and winches from. san antonio ways and from. the problem. you can get involved in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the daily newspapers radio stations television stations the cable outlet or you tell me that that sells what democracy's the public opinion versus f.c.c. broadcast blues on r.g.p. in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph brin straight 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 posed that there is a ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working for the produces side and only five percent. read again you mean the

independent. there is not a lot of science that says transgenic 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 the trends genic 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 types laws and corporate laws what could be more important than deciding on the permanent jet if you chip a life on earth. and . get. that. clear decision now luis is where mr valiantly learned that she booked out the

entire hotel she stayed in an enormous room opened it to other rooms were occupied by servants and bodyguards. yolanda a chambermaid at this love show tell had no idea who the amicable and polite man really was he completely took over the hotel for a month to get on the agenda. i sometimes came across him in the corridor. he always said hello and in general he was a very nice said that he was a generous well managed client also i knew well i'm young and we got double pay for that one of their money could buy you katy's ex dictator 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 date was born in haiti

and nine hundred sixty five he had to leave his country but he has vivid memories of the regime the valley a family established on the island if you value came to power in one nine hundred. fifty five seven and two years later to us it was. after. against. against to. us there were a lot of for oppression and it was very interesting lives in eighty francoise devalued a rule the poorest country of the western hemisphere from one nine hundred fifty seven to nine hundred seventy one he fosters an atmosphere of fear and repression on the island moreover he invented a scheme was unable to his family to amass a fabulous fortune over the course of nearly two decades devalue a senior mastermind of the so-called presidential foundation all haitian businessmen with cutey 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. the money we're talking about now in switzerland is the money belonging funday sion. which was opened. by the mother of baby doc and the wife of. primary foundation. owns the money of the family and the foundation simply your bank account in switzerland that's it's a was a bank transfer laundering money and to devalue it was much easier than it is today needed pocus firms know numerous money transfers were necessary money from the state treasury and that received from other countries assume on

a tarion aid was transferred to a foundation opened by members of the family of the head of state from that it went to europe. the account was not. between is that if. your fishel account holder is the foundation called all we. were it was clear to everyone the real. divide in your family. for the nine hundred eighty six true duvali 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 hidden away 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 head to head nor will i know numerous accounts since more than thirty years what we have is that we have what we call a number account which ha tacked your name inside the bank the employee don't see the name of the client but you can all accountants prison and without giving your past your region of the fund and there is no animals pm you are a bull enjoys a good deal of respect and switzerland's banking community some time ago he owned the 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 a profitable business and america are. not just anglo-saxon america

especially always like. us lol outsider. 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 item country a new all came into effect in early two thousand and eleven journalists have dubbed it the devalued act. now politicians and big time businessmen will find it difficult to open 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 palace and

a feeds 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 who now have to worry about the confidentiality of their bank accounts in january two thousand and eleven rudolf elmer gave two discs to julian asuncion to disks contained information on the bank accounts of several thousand customers it was suggested the people mentioned on the disks were dodging taxes ok well if you know it publicly i say that again. thanks in order to thank you investigate it and making a decision on. elma's actions of course and 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 thefts of 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 a non amidst 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 i 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 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 thieves they find it to shame and a scandal that german authority get a we using as

a bus session 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 kind of 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 customers they were suspected of tax evasion in their home country when the banks was going through sidibe promethean march two thousand i knew. it had been ten years that swiss bank executive had been twenty that had been. outperformed by anglo-saxon 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 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 prosper themselves on the tax evasion market you know how much is the fact that there's not much money. thirteen trillion thirteen thousand billion. undeclared money worldwide 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 people in the center of the confidence over stolen from us. maybe it would be the case one day like the prince and the recently tunisia are all the countries you know tunisia two years ago or one year ago was not the democracy it was. that one day and we will be able to work normally in it.

but according to should put activists realtors selling real estate in 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. the billions of dollars will simply become more intricate. there is still a long way to go before the end of this international police bust about big dirty bomb.

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