Suisse Secrets
Historic Leak of Swiss Banking
Despite two decades of pledges by Credit Suisse to crack down on illegitimate funds, data leaked from the bank reveals that it catered to dozens of criminals, dictators, intelligence officials, sanctioned parties and political actors with outsized wealth.
Sons of Azerbaijian Strongman
Having opened bank accounts with Credit Suisse, Barclays, and other foreign banks, Rza and Seymur Talibov received over $20 million in suspicious wire transfers, even as the people of the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan suffered under their father’s dictatorial rule.
Credist Suisse Account
Mriya Agro Holding collapsed after its Ukrainian owners, members of the Guta family, siphoned over $100 million of the company’s money into shell companies. SuisseSecrets data reveals that the money was moved from an account at Credit Suisse .
Zimbabwean Fraudster
Details from the Suisse Secrets leak cast new light on Credit Suisse’s role in a controversial platinum mine sale that helped finance a wave of violence around Zimbabwe’s 2008 election. The bank helped provide funds for the mine purchase, which eventually earned over $100 million for the Mugabe crony.
Black Gold in Swiss Vaults
Leaked banking data reveals Venezuelans who have been convicted or indicted for looting the country's state oil company stashed their ill-gotten wealth in accounts with Credit Suisse.
Bank of Spies
During the War on Terror, international strategy relied on intelligence officials from regimes accused of corruption and torture. Several of these spies and their families held large sums at Credit Suisse.
Serbian Drug Lord
Rodoljub Radulović, accused of being a senior member of an infamous Balkan cartel, controlled at least two accounts at Credit Suisse. One was suspected of being used to launder cash from drug transactions. A second, previously unknown to authorities, was allegedly used to protect his ill-gotten assets.
Secrets of Kazakhstan
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has sought to distance himself from his powerful predecessor, who many in Kazakhstan hold responsible for the country’s vast wealth inequality. But Tokayev’s family has its own foreign secrets: Lakeside townhouses, Moscow apartments, Swiss bank accounts — and a money trail that goes far offshore.
False Spring
The Arab Spring drew enormous scrutiny to the wealth Arab elites had stashed abroad. A leak of bank data reveals how figures linked to regimes in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Jordan, and elsewhere held hundreds of millions at Credit Suisse before and after the uprising.
Egyptian Tycoon
Hussein Salem became a symbol of cronyism and corruption during President Hosni Mubarak’s three decades in power. Leaked bank data shows that he held accounts at Credit Suisse for years, even after public accusations of bribery and fraud.
Ndrangheta-Linked Broker
When Italian entrepreneur Antonio Velardo and former IRA bomber Henry "Harry" Fitzsimons teamed up to sell apartments in a large development in Calabria, investors lost millions. Newly leaked bank data shows Velardo had hidden away a small fortune at Credit Suisse.
Taiwan Politician
Swiss, French and Taiwanese authorities investigating a corrupt $2.5 billion deal were not aware Credit Suisse had opened an account for the secretary general of Taiwan’s ruling party at the time kickbacks from the deal were being distributed.
Top Uzbek Official
The wife of Uzbekistan’s first deputy prime minister has never appeared in public. But now, two separate document leaks — one from the tropical British Virgin Islands, the other from Switzerland — reveal her to be a secret player in one of the country’s top business relationships.
Libyans Who Looted Gaddafi
A network of Gaddafi-era officials have been accused of embezzling millions of dollars of Libyan state development money and channeling it abroad. Many simultaneously held Credit Suisse accounts with tens of millions of dollars’ worth of deposits.
Scandal-Hit Angolan Banker
Álvaro Sobrinho, who led an Angolan bank that collapsed with billions of dollars of unexplained debts, is linked by new documents and testimony to a scheme to siphon off hundreds of millions of dollars of government-backed financing for social housing.
The ‘Savage Years’
The Suisse Secrets leak lays bare the extent of the relationship between Credit Suisse and the politically-connected Venezuelan financial sector. Many Venezuelans in the Suisse Secrets data made their fortunes during the so-called “Savage Years,” a period of currency-based graft which would eventually help crater the country’s economy.
Lobbyist Hassan Tatanaki
Accused of corruption in multiple countries, Libyan oil tycoon Tatanaki went from funding lobbying efforts that promoted the Gaddafi regime to backing a rebel general’s campaign to vying for the country’s presidency himself. Along the way, he held at least eight accounts at Credit Suisse.
AOG Fund
In the 1990s, executives at an obscure energy company bribed Nigerian officials to obtain spectacularly profitable oil mining licenses. Now, the Suisse Secrets project reveals that the company’s parent firm poured money into Swiss bank accounts shared with its employees and African elites, including a Nigerian spy chief.
Taiwanese Tycoon
When Sun Daocun died in 2021, he left behind a string of unresolved debts which had enraged a long line of creditors. Now, data from inside Credit Suisse reveals how Sun’s girlfriend, a known proxy for his business affairs, may have shielded his wealth from confiscation by hiding it at the Swiss banking giant.
Qosim Rohbar
Tajikistan forbids state officials from having bank accounts abroad. But that didn’t stop Qosim Rohbar, a powerful loyalist of authoritarian president Emomali Rahmon, from storing millions of dollars in Switzerland. Politician, powerbroker, alleged mafia kingpin: Qosim Rohbar has long had a reputation in Tajikistan.