well the matter whether it be here is a reminder the week's top stories believe in capitals been rocked by needles heaviest airstrikes since the start of military operations the bombings have reportedly claimed more than thirty lives and led to growing anger at foreign intervention. in moscow agrees to lift a ban on european vegetables if the e.u. can guarantee they are free from the deadly e. coli bacteria this surance came from president medvedev during a russian you talks from years also discussed russia's accession to the world trade

organization and the situation in libya. also the e.u. prepares a new rescue package for bank robbery sparking massive protest against tougher cuts in the country there's outrage too in germany were critics say they're tired of paying for other people's deaths calling on greece to leave the eurozone. and people here in moscow and nationwide are celebrating russia day it's twenty years since the country stays as first free presidential elections just one year after declaring independence from the soviet union. those are the top stories of the week next time for a special report where we take a look at how the world's dictators boost their bank accounts illegally stay with us for that. 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 the mess it's the people are

using their very very traditional mis itself what we call money laundering or sort of illicit schemes to presidents government ministers on monex used to launder money how much money have they been able to talk away in secret bank accounts the nile it was five billion dollars mobarak with this two method that's seventy billion traces the dark fortunes and how can the bankers keep their reputation clean that's a legend tell folly which we had had no i know numerous accounts since more than thirty years to compel 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 backing in the house so maybe nobody for living in this building the sixteenth district of paris avenue for 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 so 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. and to this nonprofit

organization should often visits this neighborhood ave fleshes also known as having a dictator is 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 apartments appears to be in command who works 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. sharper 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 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 days after he

fled the country in january two thousand and eleven however should correct service started investigating ben ali's finances long before the just man of pollution according to the organizations estimates the next president's family may be worth as much as five billion euros. swiss journalist minutes 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 four chips we have here is ben ali it was five billion dollars more barak we've estimated that seventy billion serious forces 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 time oil are the main asset even swiss customers know whose patch or lack cars years. but they belong to. libya most of the early fellows with. its libyan oil the libyan leader entrusted his son hannibal with fiscal operations in europe gadhafi 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 europe and only the richest people of the world can stay. in this you would have such clients like. president shakes oligarchs who. also was as doing his troops to switzerland for

a mere fifty eight thousand euros to get to 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 where in the restaurant lebanese this is our restaurant with 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 duffy and his pregnant wife and i believe charged with assaulting internal turned policeman for him to come down to the lobby. he didn't want to. do it for some time then they decided to go into the one thing to do. in this situation

talk. about. the swiss newspaper tribune printed pictures of both gadhafi jr under arrest and the hotel attendants that were attacked annabelle found a lawsuit against the newspaper yet the biggest consequence of the incident for switzerland was libya's boycott of economic cooperation pursuing this crisis broke . that the leading authorities have withdrew and was grown. apart at least or even important part of the money out of the positive in 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 and go daffy didn't spend all that much effort 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 resort to much more intricate nontransparent schemes as a rule the money goes around the world before landing in anonymous bank accounts in europe. less 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 find a big financial sentence london is very. or in new york. for you from them are. very reassuring for us. 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 we're done you'll tell as class works for the center for asset recovery he says investigating the financial nationalizations 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 is so in that situation our

country must do everything to trace and locate the assets. daniel tellus class folks that are investigating will become easier following the revolutionary tsunami in north africa. they will lose and of course the positive impact trade brings in a new government and the government is under pressure to act they cannot forget about the case or seen that in egypt now where millions of people were again on the street the walls for followup 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 his justice place the way the international center for asset recovery looks for the billions of dollars hidden in europe it will denounce his master classes for investigators from developing countries they're taught how to pinpoint traces of money this is fun it's true national budgets. but we do make three more

requests for example if that money was transferred into their country there would be a move to a legal assistance to that country with questing that is such improbable things show of liberia pass as a positive it's no more dollars in this particular bank in your country and we feel that this money is in the game when he still wants you to put all through nice and out money until quite recently money returning to its home country was the exception rather than the rule bank used to suddenly freeze 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 need to explain what we are doing and calling for on this isn't there also we can explain what we can offer about the request just

a call from a country we don't know to have the mandate to investigate on more of our own but many believe a saloon posture 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 notorious flail of banking secrecy being lifted things together which is something the swiss bankers of always been proud of people whom wait for me on such a new era and age of total financial transparency. twenty years ago it gave its first president. in the midst of colossal change. setting a new direction for a new country. saluting the state.

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don't. think. we says where mysteries are valuable. she booked out the entire hotel she stayed in an enormous room. other rooms were occupied by his servants and bodyguards. you lunda a chambermaid at this last show tell her 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. she always said hello and in general he was very nice. he was a generous well managed client. we got double pay for that month.

haiti's ecstatic tator john 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 in one thousand 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 nineteen. fifty five. and two years and it was. after. against to our audience. for a position and it was very dangerous to leave. francois devalue a rule 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 this enables his family to amass a fabulous fortune over the course of nearly two decades devalue a senior masterminded the so-called presidential foundation or haitian business one which you keep around 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 daughter 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 ation in mr stein which was opened by by the mother of baby doc and the wife of the look and these familiar foundation. owns the

money of the family and the foundations in the 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 especially monetary in asia was transferred to a foundation opened by members of the family of the head of state and then it went to europe. the account was not. a foundation in between is that before year your fishel account holder is the vision. foundation however it was clear to everyone the real the duvalier family. from the one nine hundred eighty six to two valley had to flee to europe there he shared 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 norway in swiss banks since the early series thousands 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 all. 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 cannot count in switzerland with our giving your passport your own region of the fund and there is no anonymity pyramid or bull enjoys a good deal of respect in switzerland 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 so he is and is very simple is that we are in a business which is a profitable and today people who wants to take market share of the profitable business and america are. not just anglo-saxon america especially always like to add us low outside. united states this ex-parte there in. the 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 it the devaluate act. now politicians and big time business one 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 altogether so if it's a president of the palin and effects 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 take his 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 a son 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 i want to do it and there's no way. to wiki leaks like that again basically thank you no order. thank you

investigating and making a decision on a elmo'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 thefts of secret banking information is yen's brown bush of the financial times the first scandal of its 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 and eight the german state because of this and the 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 thieves. a fine day to shame and a scandal that german authority get away with is 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 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 the banks were spending so you think i probably smart two thousand. and it had been ten years that respect extra crispy had been eroding any that had been. out

performed by anglo-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 an under cleared war with anglo-saxon financial institutions the fight with bank accounts for the 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 tax evasion market money is in that thirteen trillion thirteen thousand billion. on the clear world like it's no longer else with spectacles was. a journalist from the french magazine l'express feels the train of revolutions in north africa is only just picking up street he's expecting me well avis in the center of the confidence over stolen funds. maybe it would be there because one day

like. up in the recently moved to an easy or other countries you know tunisia two years ago or one year ago was not the democracy it was a dictatorship that one day it we will be able to work normally in the it was in. was according to sherpa activists realtors selling real estate in what is known as the dictator's avenue in a prestigious part of the terrorist 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 bust up about big money.

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