The Jovanović couple from Doboj has bought thirteen properties in the country and abroad while saving about three million marks in a Swiss bank, the Suisse Secrets leak reveals. Janko is the head of the customs branch office, and Jovanka is president of the local court. Their income does not even come close to justify millions of real estate investments.
The Suisse Secrets data was obtained by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which coordinated the project along with OCCRP.
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.
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.
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 who set up the deal.
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 – despite repeated promises to stamp out dubious funds
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 — which should have noticed major red flags in the transactions, an expert said.
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.
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.
Leaked banking data reveals Venezelans who have been convicted or indicted for looting the country’s state oil company stashed their ill-gotten wealth in accounts with Credit Suisse.
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.
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