A new probe of Swiss bank Credit Suisse discovered 890 previously undisclosed accounts with potential Nazi links, a U.S. senator said on Tuesday, amid efforts to shine a light on what he said was the bank’s hidden role in World War Two crimes.
Holders of the wartime accounts included the German Foreign Office, the SS paramilitary organization and a German arms-manufacturing company, U.S. Republican Senator Chuck Grassley told reporters in a briefing.
He gave no details on how much money might have been held in the accounts and their current status.
The organizations were part of the Nazi apparatus under German leader Adolf Hitler that enabled the Holocaust, which killed about 6 million Jewish people.
UBS trying really hard to keep their name out of this.
CS hasn’t existed for a while. They were absorbed into UBS, albeit with some protests on the latter part.
It would be interesting to know the financial movements of those accounts, especially after '45.
This seems like a plausible story, except Chuck Grassley is telling it. Has this been independently verified by someone who isn’t a corrupt idiot?
Funny how that shows up just now
… and if this has legs, it makes this even more suspicious!
Why seal papers relating to UBS’ acquisition for 50 frigging years??
INB4 they seize it and give it to Israel as “reparations” (to be immediately spent on munitions against Palestinians).
