Swiss Federal prosecutors Launched criminal Actions targeting offenders of 2022 leak of information on thousands of Credit Suisse accounts Friday.
the leak Covered over 18,000 accounts, including human rights abusers, fraudsters and sanctioned businessmen, flooding Switzerland’s largest bank in sloppy money scandal.
The accounts, which were kept from the 1940s to the 2000s, were leaked last Feb to german sueddeutsche zeitung i shared with media organizations around the world.
ID of person or organization responsible for the leak remains unknown.
Prosecutors said the alleged crimes in The case violated bank secrecy laws, tort caused to Credit Suisse and made trusted business information available For foreign organizations or their agents.
they took after receiving a formal complaint.
The Swiss daily newspaper Tagesanzeiger quoted sources as saying the bank, which is working to revive its fortunes after a series of Scandals and huge losses were the complainant.
Asked if Credit Suisse had filed the complaint, a spokeswoman for Credit Suisse said: bank did not comment on ongoing procedures.
