because photo in the big old circus hotel lets you be a ski green genius given it to some mysterious ruler convinced you might go to regency look in eco school book you. know so it's a. welcome back here's a recap of our top stories on our t.v. nato secretary general tells our alliance has no intention of going into syria this as moscow rejects a u.n. resolution against umask is warning it could be a prelude to what aggressive witness style into that. u.s. armed drones that fighter jets aborted yemen suspected militant targets raising concerns of a secret war critics say the intense attacks which helped washington's ally president sali cling to power and make violent uprisings. and the use of an animal

drug to execute death row inmates in the u.s. sparks an outcry from human rights groups experts say the medicine could actually be torturing people to death. and that starts he looks at the secret of the mighty and the wealthy in our special report probing the finances of middle east dictators . 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. using their very very traditional mis itself or we call money laundering more sort of the listed 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 then ali it was five billion dollars mobarak we estimate that at seventy billion to

traces the dark fortunes and how can the bankers keep their reputations clean that's a legend tell for you would we had had no i know me most accounts since more than thirty years who compelled swiss bankers to disclose information about their clients will the infamous veil of criticism over the country's bank accounts finally be lifted for good. since there is no banging the house so maybe nobody from living in this building

the sixteenth district of paris ave for sure this is a quiet fashionable neighborhood. is 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 these are embassy grounds. i don't always see ok tim as a matter of fact the building houses know. the dogs are simply trying to protect the privacy of the big shots staying there. and nonprofit organization show often visits this neighborhood avenue fashions also known as you haven't you have takers because a lot of. african leaders and leaders in the word owns a building or an apartment on this avenue claire is lucky this time the owner of the apartment appears to be in demand towards here tell me that he's here like two

three 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. chipper 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 news here itself the search for the next president's money began t. days after he fled the country in january two thousand and eleven however should correct to this started investigating ben ali's finances along with field adjustment of pollution according to the organizations estimates the ex 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 with some leaders of the world countries but even she can only get a rough estimates of the four chips we have here is banal it was five billion dollars. we've estimated at 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 fellows with.

its libyan oil the libyan leader entrusted his son the final fiscal operations in europe gadhafi jr subsequently put himself into a plush hotel in geneva. you know what i'm president wilson it's a. very exclusive and beautiful hotel where have the biggest and 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 red president shakes more narcs oligarchs who. also was doing his troops just with someone for a mere fifty thousand euros to get to this exclusive hotel get some good 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 restaurant lebanese this is our restaurant where the lebanese cuisine was

a very luxury design and very refined lebanese 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 runnable khadafi and his pregnant wife and i believe charged with assaulting internal terms of policemen for him to come down to the lobby. he didn't want to come so they waited for some time and then they decided to go into the went. in this situation. and arrested. this was newspaper tribune the geneve printed pictures of both gadhafi jr under arrest and the hotel attendants that were attacked a little 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 out between. libya that the leading authorities have withdrew with grown. apart 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 the thought civil war broke out gadhafi perceived himself as libya's omnipotent master. for that reason he didn't even call the disguise the movement of billions of dollars a guy daffy didn't spend all that much if it to hide the money it 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. and this 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 to the velo regulated big financial centers london zurich or new york. for

you from them are. very reassuring. that's why where we are working. this is phoebe she's the guardian of all the assets that we have found still waiting of course the form or food if we get it done you'll tell is class works for the center for asset recovery these days investigating the financial machine a sions 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. daniel tellus class hopes that investigating will become easier fall in the revolutionary tsunami in north africa but it will lose one of the positive impact three it brings in a new government and the government is under pressure to act they cannot forget

about the case seen 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 it will be nice as master classes for investigators from developing countries they're taught how to pinpoint traces of money this is done it's true national budgets. well we do make some more requests for example is that money it was transferred into and then a country that we do moved from legal systems to that country requesting that such improbable things shows liberia. and deposit it x. number of dollars in this particular bank in your country and we think that this

money is in the companies who want you to put us through nice and out money until quite recently money returning to its home country was the exception rather than the rule of 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 but usually it's based on a request by the country. we need to explain what we are doing and come for a visit there also we can explain what we can offer about the request as to call them from a country we don't know tough to mandate to investigate of our own but many believe that the law passed in switzerland to early 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 people awaits in the onset of a new era and age of total financial transparency. the close up team has been to build a brand richard thank you all the turning point i'm bringing 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. where the mysterious city of a deadlock the world come the republic of north a second russia. cauchy. 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 then revoking its license in case of

corruption and when she's going. to stand out on the ways in trying. to get out of it is that you can get involved in a community where you have one large corporation controlling the daily newspaper radio stations television stations a cable outlet you told me that that sounds like democracy public opinion versus f.c.c. broadcast blues on r.g.p. and nine hundred eighty two dr ralph minster at the 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 what's next is that ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are verkin for the produce aside and only five percent are read genuinely independent. there is 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 is a lot of concern about the environmental impacts if it transgenic fish escapes what 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's children in our congress here in the united states legislatures throughout the world we vote all these different laws tax laws and corporate laws what can be more important than deciding on the feminine genetic future of the. life on earth. and i. think we. have a special now we says where mr valiantly learned of young she looked out of the entire

hotel he stayed in an enormous room ok anything other rooms were occupied by his servants and bodyguards. yolanda the chambermaid at this love show tell had no idea who the amicable and polite man really was they 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 very nice said that he was a generous well managed client. we got double pay for that martin i am willing to get by you haiti's ecstatic tator claude duvalier was the occupants of those fashionable premises with an excellent view of the nearby lake investigators put a sum of money he took out of the country and hundreds of millions of dollars. shows that the rate was born in haiti and one 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 thousand and fifty five seven. two years later to us it was. better. arsed destroyed against to our opponents there were for oppression and it was very very dangerous to leave. france roger valley a rule the poorest country of the western hemisphere from one nine hundred fifty seven to ninety. in seventy one a 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 were duty bound to contribute to it according to various estimates the

foundation grew by three million dollars each year after the death of friends who are 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 fund asian inishmaan study which was opened by the by the mother of baby doc and the wife of. andy's familia foundation. owns the money of the family and the foundation something you bank accounts in switzerland that's it's a was a bank transfer laundering money under the valley 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 astri monetary an aid was

transferred to a foundation opened by members of the family of the head of state from then it went to europe. the account was not. a foundation in between. your fishel account all there is the foundation called foundation however it was clear to everyone on the real. duvalier family. following the nine hundred eighty six truth 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 in the way in swiss banks since the early two thousand switzerland has been vigorously trying to bridge 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 naught i know

numerous accounts since more than thirty years what we have is that we have what we call a number account which kept your name inside the bank the employee don't see the name of the client but you cannot open an account in switzerland without giving your passport your own region of the fund and there is no animals pm you're a bull enjoys a good deal of respect in switzerland 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 trouble and today people who wants to take market share of a profitable business and america are. not just anglo-saxon but america

especially always like to up by us lol outsider. united states this ex 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 of the item country a new york 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 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 is the president of the. if it's

head of of big public company we will not do business which is as a matter of fact ordinary people as well as x. to taters who now have to worry about the confidentiality of their bank accounts in january two thousand and eleven rudolf elmer gave two just to julian assange just contained information on the bank accounts of several thousand customers it was suggested the people mentioned on the disks were dodging taxes but i want you to know it weekly i say that again usually thanks in order to thank you investigating and making a decision on a elmo'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 theft the secret banking information is yet 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 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 that such actions drew a mixed response in germany bankers didn't mince their words saying the german government's behavior was no better than the to steve's. finding to shame and a scandal that german authority get away with using the possession 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 in secrecy that come under attack a few months before that u.s. authorities have pressurised u.b.s. and releasing information about the accounts of thousands of its american customers they were suspected of tax evasion in their home country when the then swiss banks . march two thousand i. and it had been ten years that swiss bank executive had been eroding that clearly that had been. out performed 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 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 the fact there is a market that's nine years in that 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 consonant over stolen phones. maybe it would be the one they like up and sit up in the recently in tunisia or other countries you know tunisia two years ago or one year ago was not the democracy it was. i thought that one day we would be able to work normally in the it.

was according to shut but activists realtors 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 has 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 .

say for instance this is not a provocation but the warning that. the film says that shifts everybody who shoots a critic risks they have no idea about the hardships the face. plate one of the says it is all of them to listen for any army to life level you say is the most precious thing in the world.