used today violence has once again flared up. these are the images seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are rooted there. hello this is our team from moscow it's kevin zero in with you here tonight this sunday evening with a look at our top stories from the week first of nato launches its heaviest the most punishing air strikes on the libyan capital killing thousands as the rebels complain the alliance is ignoring the real frontline big time the course of international condemnation over syria several loud. anger comes to a boiling greece is the government moves to make deeper cuts in public spending in exchange for another received bailout in germany those footing the bill say they're

getting tired of paying others that. the u.s. god this elbow ship sails going to black sea for naval exercises with ukraine the move provokes moscow's i'm get which claims it's a problem from a controversial missile shield program. next time for a special report where we take a look at how the world's dictators boost their bank accounts illegally coming up here on alt. 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 here sort of the listed 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 it was five billion dollars mobarak with

this two method at seventy billion traces the dark fortunes and how can the bankers keep their reputation 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 pull the infamous veil of privacy over the country's bank accounts finally be lifted for good. but. it seems there is no bank in the house so maybe nobody from living in this building

the sixteenth district of paris ave 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 the 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 missions the dogs are simply trying to protect the privacy of the big shots saying that. an actual nonprofit organization should often visits this neighborhood as a new fest is 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 demand to who 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. shelter activists best agape the shady financial deals of past and present political leaders across the world one of the most recent investigation is concerned the money belonging to x. tunisian 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. days after he fled the country in january two thousand and eleven however sharper activists started investigating ben ali's finances long before the just monopolization according to the organizations estimates the ex president's family may be worth as much as five billion euros. swiss journalist

millet zaki has spent several years investigating the financial wheeling and dealing of some leaders of third world countries but even she can only get a rough estimates of their fortunes and we have for years been towards five billion dollars. we've estimated at seventy billion it was serious also that this was the telegraph. and it'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 asset covering 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 country like ours use. but they belong to. libya most of the early so.

if libyan oil the libyan leader entrusted his son the frontal with for school operations in europe the duffy junior subsequently booked himself into a plush hotel in geneva. because of president wilson it's a luxury it's a very exclusive and beautiful hotel we have the biggest most expensive sears' in the euro and only the richest people of the world can stay. in this you would have such clients like i read the president shake some more larks oligarchs who. also was that during his trip to switzerland for a mere fifty eight thousand euros a guest in this exclusive hotel gets a good looks presidential suite with expensive decorations in the finest taste customers that literally trade on gold and now you can see the floor made of gold.

restaurant led by mills this is our restaurant that was led by his cuisine with a very luxury design and very refined lebanese traditional cuisine an 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 detained on a bill to just the just pregnant wife i believe was charged with assaulting two terms of policemen for him to come down to the lobby. he didn't want to come so they waited for some time then they decided to go into the room so they went into. this situation talk. about. swiss newspaper tribune indigenes printed pictures of both khadafi jr under arrest and the hotel attendants that were attacked channel 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 and withdrawn. a part at least or even important part of the money towards the positive 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 left in switzerland marc pitt professor at basel university has long been tracking money laundering methods in his view before civil war broke out the duckie perceived himself as libya's omnipotent master. for that reason he didn't even bother to disguise the movement of billions of dollars of god our family 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 us they were easily found because they were identified with gadhafi 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. unless 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 to the velo regulated big financial centers london zurich. or in new york.

before them are. very reassuring. that's why where we are working on this is phoebe she is the guardian of all the assets that we have found still waiting of course the four more would be here daniel jealous 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 account you can start to confiscate the money but very often we have problems in finding where the money is so in that situation a country must do everything to trace and locate the assets eternal tellus craft hopes that investigating will become easier following the revolutionary tsunami in north africa. but it 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 were again on the street to also 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 what is justice trace the way the international center for asset recovery looks for the billions of dollars didn't in europe is organized as master classes for investigators from developing countries they're taught how to pinpoint traces of money which has vanished from national budgets. well we do make formal requests for example or is that money was transferred into iraq and then a country that would do a move for legal assistance to that country requesting that is such an particle fish of liberia has a deposit that x.

and the more dollars in this particular bank in your country and we think that this money's only good money saw want you to put all through nice on that 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 up going for others is that there also we can explain what we can offer about the request of the kong from a country we don't know tough the mandate to investigate on our own but many believe there's a law passed in switzerland in early two thousand and eleven to make it possible to change the situation in a significant way already there is talk of the notorious failing banking secrecy being lifted altogether which is something the swiss bankers have always been proud

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to a. i'm. not . going to. take. the money. we says where mysteries are valuable. she booked out the entire hotel he stayed in an enormous room. other rooms were

occupied by his servants and bodyguards. your lunda the chambermaid at this love show tell and no idea who the amicable and polite man really was they completely to favor the hotel for a month because on the agenda. i sometimes came across him in the corridor. she always said hello and in general he was a very nice. he was a generous well managed client. we got double pay for that. katie's ex tip 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 one 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 he came to purgatory in nineteen. fifty five seven. two years and it paid to us it was. after. against. against to our audience there were for a patient and it was very 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 has enabled his family to amass a fabulous fortune over the course of nearly two decades giovanni a senior masterminded the so-called presidential foundation or haitian businessman would you to pound contribute to it according to various estimates the foundation grew by three million dollars each year after the death of friends who are

devaluate 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 to sunday sion. which was opened by the by the mother of baby doc and the wife of the other work and these familiar phonation. owns the money of the family and the foundation same thing bank account in switzerland that's it's a was a bank transfer laundering money under duvalier 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 assume on a tarion a it was transferred to a foundation opened by members of the family of the head of state from there it

went to europe. the account was not. in between. your fishel account holder is the foundation called we foundation however. it was clear to everyone the real owner of the duvalier family. from the one nine hundred eighty six to two valley 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 bridge itself with 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.

accounts since more than thirty years what we have is that we have what we call a number account which part kept 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 thought and there is no animals pm europos enjoys a good deal of respect and switzerland's banking community some time ago he owned the bank he sees the pressure experienced by his colleagues in the past few years is purely a party tough business competition and the reason is very simple is that we are in a business which is possible and today people who wants to take market share of a profitable business and america are. not just anglo-saxon america especially always like put up by us lol outside.

united states does x. there he thought. 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 to the item country a new north came into effect in early two thousand and eleven journalists have dubbed it the desire act. now politicians and big time business one will find it difficult to work on accounts in 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 palomar and. head of a big public company we will not do business with us as

a matter of fact ordinary people as well as acts take 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 contains information on the bank accounts of several thousand customers it was suggested that the people mentioned on the disks were told in taxes but i want to do it and there's no way. the wiki leaks like say that again if you did. thanks in order to thank god it's investigating and making a decision on. elmer'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 this 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 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 dr thieves i find it a shame and a scandal that german authority get a way 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 from secrecy that come under attack a few months before that you were sort of storage he said 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 did thanks for spending so you think i promise not to thousand. and it has been ten years that respect exists a had been eroding 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 with a shady past is only an excuse i'm glad 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 isn't it thirteen trillion thirteen thousand billion. undeclared money worldwide it's no longer all swiss like a cult was. a journalist from the french magazine l'express feels the chain of revolutions in north africa is only just picking up street he's expecting new up davidson the center of the confidence over stolen from us. maybe it would be the case one day like the prince up in the recently mountain is you are all the countries you know tunisia two years ago or one year ago was no a democracy it was a machine that one day we would be able to work normally in it. but according to sherpa activists realtors selling real estate and what is known as the dictator's avenue in

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