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.