Credit Suisse: a bank for dictators, drug lords and criminals
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.4 | Today, a major leak reveals how one of the world's largest banks became a haven for dirty money. |
| 0:21.9 | The bank credit swiss. |
| 0:23.9 | In the Swiss city of Zurich holds billions of dollars. |
| 0:27.8 | Billions of secrets. |
| 0:30.8 | This vault lays in the groundwater of Zurich. |
| 0:34.2 | It is 18 feet below lake level. |
| 0:37.6 | This vault has 3,500 saves. |
| 0:42.9 | We have it in 10 different sizes. |
| 0:46.4 | The smallest is 5 cm high. |
| 0:49.6 | The biggest looks like a closet. |
| 0:52.6 | The bank takes pride in the security of its vaults. |
| 0:59.3 | And that security and discretion is part of what makes it so attractive to its hundreds of |
| 1:06.9 | thousands of clients around the world. |
| 1:11.6 | But what if someone started thinking that some of these secrets shouldn't be secrets at all? |
| 1:18.4 | I didn't know what we were getting into. |
| 1:21.2 | It's not often that you get dumped with this kind of data. |
| 1:25.9 | And on top of that, to get it from a Swiss bank and let alone the second largest in the country. |
| 1:32.8 | It was exciting and honestly it was a bit nerve-racking. |
| 1:35.5 | Guardian banking correspondent, Kalena Makotov, |
| 1:39.0 | an investigative reporter David Pegg, |
| 1:41.4 | have been making their way through a giant trove of leaked data. |
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