SWITZERLAND
1 August 1291 – Switzerland got
independence from its former mother country, the Holy Roman Empire.
(Ancestry. July August 2007).
1356 – Earthquake causing a fire that
destroyed Basel city in Switzerland. (Apocalypse. Amos Nur (c)2008
US).
1365 – Basel. Timeline of
earthquakes.
1618-1648 - The 30 year wars of 1618
to 1648 were very destructive, in Europe's history. (Nicholas
Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
24 Oct 1648 – The Treaty of
Westphalia, after 30 years of war in the holy Roman empire.
Switzerland got independence. (HistoryOrb.com).
1713 – The great council of the
Geneva canton, then an independent state, ruled the banking world.
They were banned from giving out information. (Nicholas Shaxson.
Treaure islands (c)2011 UK).
24 Nov 1784 – Jean Louis Burckhardt
was born in Switzerland. Lausanne Basle in 1798 France invaded
Switzerland. Switzerland then came under French rule. (The story of
archeology. Justin Pollard (c)2007 UK).
6 Oct 1849 – A duel near Lausane
Switzerland. Sergeant Bochot, the Socialist rep for Paris, and a
Spanish officer for the regent of Isabell Segunda. London news UK.
1860-1870 – Switzeland's neutality.
(Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
1876 – The future of archives. In
1876 Switzerland changed over from church registers to civil
registration. Some church registers have been microfilmed by the
Mormon's LDS. (Practical family history. August 2009).
1889 – Hyposwiss private bank in
Zurich was founded in 1889 as Schweizerische hypothekenban.
1890s – A Verdingkind or ‘contract
child’ in Switzerland. Sex slavery, concubines or comfort women.
(New York Times. 11 Nov 2014).
12 Aug 1893 – Switzerland. Daily
Telegraph. Papers Past NZ.
1897 – Jewish leaders met in 1897 for
the first Zionist congress in Basel Switzerland. (Gerald S Posner.
Secrets of the Kingdom ©2005 US).
1915 – Indian Dr Abdul Hafiz and
other German agents were in Switzerland. Plots to kill Italian govt
ministers. Hafiz was expelled from Switzerland. (Christopher Andrew.
UK c)2009 M15).
1917 – A munitions worker at
Rotherwas, William Button, was a POW at camp Gustrov. He was sent to
a sanitorium in Switzerland in 1917, as a non combatant. He arrived
back in London on 9 Dec 1918, only to die a week later in Hampstead
military hospital. (Who do you think you are. P6 Sept 2014 UK).
8 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist
conference. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.
10 Feb 1919 – Berne Socialist
conference. Colonist. Papers Past NZ.
1925 – U Bodung Verlag. Ulrich
Fleischauer. 1925 he was a defence witness in Berne Switzerland. Anti
semetic, The protocols of the elders of Zion. Publisher funded by the
Nazis. Propaganda of Joseph Goebbels. (The lawn road flats. (c)2014
David Burke UK).
30 March 1925 – Rudolf Steiner died
in Dornach Switzerland. He was born on 27 Feb 1861 in Kraljevic
Austria. (Atlantis and other lost worlds. Frank Joseph (c)2008 UK).
1930 – Lawyers, Sullivan and Cromwell
was headed by John Foster Dulles. Allen Dulles, future head of the
CIA, was a partner. Bank for the international settlements BIS, was
set up in Switzerland in 1930, to channel war reparations between the
US and Germany. Gold looted by the Nazis in Europe ended up in BIS
vaults. (The untold story of the US. Oliver Stone ©2012 US).
13 March 1930 – Spies in Switzerland.
The Manchester Guardian UK.
28 March 1930 – Italian spies in
Switzerland. Eight men were expelled and the consul position was in
question. The Manchester Guardian UK.
1932 – Vito Genovese was 16 years old
when he first came to the lower east side from Naples in 1913. He was
friends with Lucky Luciano. Later they ran brothels and sold heroin.
By 1925 Luciano and Genovese were New York’s main suppliers of
heroin. In 1932 Genovese put hundreds of thousands of dollars into a
Swiss bank and set to re establish contacts with criminals in Naples.
In 1937 he fled to Italy. (The Mafia at war. Tim Newark ©2007
Italy).
July 1937 – Swiss sanitorium, after
July 1937. Foreign patients did not register and the records of the
main sanitorium at Danos and Leysin were destroyed. (Too secret too
long. Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
Sept 1939 – The German economic
minister opened a foreign exchange control in Switzerland to hide
German property. Leading German's like IG Farben, the chemical
company which made poison gas used in Nazi death camps, hired Swiss
trustees and opened legal Swiss. Herman Goring, Joseph Goebbels,
Johan von Ribbentrop and Hitler looted from Europe, these goods were
found in Switzerland. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011
UK).
1941 – Nazi Germany's gold and
foreign exchange reserves ran out. The Swiss government loaned them
850 million Swiss francs. Swiss manufacture and industry. Swiss
chemical industries helped bankroll the German war effort. Nazi loot
was hidden by the Swiss. Book by Tom Bower. Blood money. (Nicholas
Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
1943 – Alexander Rado in Switzerland
was part of the Red Orchestra, a GRU spy network. It was broken up by
Swiss police in 1943. (The hidden hand. Richard J Aldrich ©2001 UK).
World War Two – The Jewish gold
scandal and Swiss banks which hid huge sums from many deposits in
their vaults by German Jews who later became victims of the Nazis.
(Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).
1945 – Switzerland, vice counsel New
York Anatoli Yakovlev. Connection of that office to Switzerland. Went
to Switzerland from that office. Soviet spy operations in
Switzerland. Rachel Dubendorfer. Connections between Canadian and
Swiss espionage operations. Hermina Rabinovitch ILO, Int Labour org
in Montreal Canada. (The atom bomb spies. H Montgomery Hyde (c)1980
UK).
30 Aug 1947 – Swiss editor builds
village for orphans. Times Pictorial Dublin.
16 Dec 1948 – The Swiss society of
psychiatry and incapacity agents. Zurich Switzerland. Classified
Swiss scientists. Professor Werner Stoll was a psychiatric researcher
at the university of Zurich, hallucinating agents, incapacitating
LSD. Sandoz pharmecutical company in Basel. 1947 Werner Stoll and
LSD. (Opeation Paperclip. Annie Jacobsen ©2014 US).
1949 – Thailand’s Phao Sriyanon,
the KMT nationalists, Paul Helliwell and Sea supply CAT. Phao died in
exile in Switzerland, Thailand’s Phao was one of the richest men in
the world. (Global research. Peter Dale Scott. 6 Sept 2008).
1949-50 – Meyer Lansky, Zurich Swiss
bankers. John Pullman financed organised crime, smuggling, gambling,
heroin profits out of the US into international Swiss bank accounts.
Meyer Lansky owned Exchange and International bank of Geneva
Switzerland. Corsicans in Marseilles France, heroin labs and
trafficking. 23 May 1951 most of the US heroin supply was made in
Marseilles France. (Mafia pdf).
June July 1950 – New Zealand Soviet
spy Ian Milner and his wife Margot went to Switzerland. Then to
Communist Czech. He had been working at the UN in New York. He
resigned from the UN in Oct 1951. Uni in Prague Czech, defected. 27
June 1950 Milner in Switzerland. (Spies revolutionaries. Graeme Hunt
(c)2007 NZ).
1951 – The Russian Lucy spy ring in
Switzerland. Some of Lucy's info came from Bletchley park. June 1941.
Cairncross and Blunt gave Bletchley decrypts to the Soviets.
Cainrcross flat was raided in 1951. They found thousands of
documents. In ten years he gave about 6,000 documents to the Kremlin.
(The secret life of Bletchley park. Sinclair McKay (c)2010 UK).
21 March 1953 – Swiss policy in the
cold war, neutrality without isolation. The Manchester Guardian UK.
11 Sept 1953 – Four months after
Macleans defection, his wife told M15, she wanted to leave the UK and
go to Switzerland. She went to live in Geneva. Two years later on 1
Sept 1953, in a KGB operation, she left Switzerland with her 3
children for Moscow, where she lived for 30 years, before returning
to the US. Defector Vladimir Petrov revealed that the KGB had
arranged her departure from Switzerland. (Too secret too long.
Chapman Pincher ©1984 US).
May 1954 – Geneva peace conference
sought a settlement to the wars in Korea and Vietnam. Set up the
International control commission and Vietnam observers. (GCHQ Richard
J Aldrich ©2010 UK).
23 July 1954 – Summit meeting,
Khrushchev and Bulganin of the USSR, Eden from the UK and Piney from
France. Swiss president Pettitpierre. Eisenhower and Frances Williams
from the US. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009 US).
1955 – LDS Mormon President David
McKay dedicated the Bern Switzerland temple. (Presidents of the
church LDS book).
1955 – Crypto AG chief executive
Giulliano Otth 1955 and NSA. Friedman and Hagelin in the 1950s GCHQ.
(28 July 2015 BBC).
1955 – NSA and GCHQ the cold war
world. Swiss encryption company. German Enigma. Bletchley park. Boris
Hagalin Crypto AG. Moved from Sweden to Switzelrand. 1955 visit by
William F Frieman to Zug Switzerland where Crypto AG was based. (BBC
29 July 2015 Gordon Corera).
1961 – The International credit bank
of Switzerland was founded by Israeli Tibor Rosenbaum, Mossad and
weapons in Israel and Europe. (Global research. Peter Dale Scott. 6
Sept 2008).
15 April 1961 – Batista took $300
million of Cuban money and put it into private Swiss bank accounts.
Socialist Fidel Castro took power in Cuba . (The Havana mob. TJ
English (c)2007 UK).
1962 – Peace conference and Geneva
Switzerland declaration on neutrality for Laos.
8 Sept 1967 – Mafia Las Vegas casinos
concealed envelopes, millions to Swiss banks by international
couriers. Life mag. 8 Sept 1967. (The mafia killed JFK. David E
Scheim (c) 1988 US).
18 February 1969 – Gunfire attack on
El Al Airliner in Zurich. One person was killed and four people were
jailed. Three people ere freed after the 6 September 1970 attacks.
21 February 1970 – The Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine, PFLP, blew up a SwissAir Convair
airliner, leaving Zurich for Tel Aviv, killing 47 people.
1973 – At the Geneva airport, 100
kilos of Lebanese hashish came out from Beirut airport. Anthony
Woodhead drove it from Switzerland to England. (Drug barons. Paul
Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
1974 – Sindona controlled Franklin
National bank in New York. The largest bank failure in US history.
Banca Privata Italiana of Milan. Funds went from Italy to the US via
Switzerland through a Zurich bank that Sindona controlled. Investing
profits from the trans Atlantic heroin mafia trade. Hollywood. (The
mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).
20 June 1975 – Couple on trial for
spying in Switzerland. The Times UK.
23 June 1975 – Swiss imprison East
German spies for seven years. The Times UK.
July 1975 – NZ Truth article. The
Sutch files. Sutch attended the UK Imperial conference in Feb 1937.
Sutch was Sec Gen of the NZ delegation at the UN in New York from
1947to 1951. New Zealander Dr Sutch was a Soviet spy and he had
several bank accounts, including a Swiss numbered accounts. (Spy. Kit
Bennetts (c)2006 NZ).
1976 – Banque de commerce et de
placements BCP a BCCI affiliate opened in Geneva.
1976 – One of the main BCCI
operations in Europe was Banque de Commerce et de placements, SA. It
was a joint venture in Switzerland. It was formed in 1976 in
partnership with other financial institutions including the Union
bank of Switzerland.
1980s – The Mafia and 1980s Corporate
America. Swiss bank acounts. Legal global business cartel. Pizza
restaurants and the disposal of toxic waste. Robert D McFadden. The
mafia of the 1980s. Divided and under seige. New York Times. 11 March
1987. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).
1982 – Nicholas Faith. Safety in
numbers. The mysterious world of Swiss banking. (Nicholas Shaxson.
Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
13 Sept 1982 – Juerg Heer was the
executive director of the credit section of Zurich Rothschild bank,
Transfers from Calvi’s Luxemberg subsidiary to Gelli to a corporate
shell company in Panama called Bell atrix. Loans of $142 million. On
13 Sept 1982 Gelli was arrested in Switzerland. (The annals of
unsolved crime EJ Epstein ©2012 US).
1984 – Safety in numbers. The
mysterious world of Swiss banking. Nicholas Faith. London UK Hamish
Hamilton.
1984 – Penny Lernoux. In banks we
trust. Garden city New York. Anchor press. Doubleday.
1 Jan 1984 – A coup in Nigeria, the
military were led by Maj Gen Muhammad Buhari, who seized power. Oil
supplies. Umaru Dikko the outed transport minister was charged with
embezzling millions of $US in oil profits from the govt. Dikko fled
the country and disappeared from Lagos Nigeria. Oil supplies. Cash in
numbered Swiss bank accounts. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008
UK).
Sept 1985 – Iran paid $7 million out
of Swiss bank accounts. Irangate. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas
(c)2008 UK).
1988 – Zuricher union bank in Zurich
opened an account and obtained a safe deposit box. Swiss banks safe
deposit boxes. Banking secrecy laws in Switzerland and the Canasta
player investigation. (Traitors among us. ©1999 SA Herrington).
1988 – al Taqwa bank was founded in
Switzerland. It was a major funder of Islamic groups like al Qaeda
and the Muslim Brotherhood. Youssef Nada. (History commons).
1988 – In Zurich Switzerland there
were metal vats in a bioengineering company which was making
bacteria ordered by Iran. The company had chemical contracts with
Iran. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).
Jan 1988 – Sunday Mirror. 12 Aug
1990. Elm guest house in London UK. Meier, In Switzerland, Zurich
police arrested a sex pest for offences with 12 boys and a baby. Marc
Dutroux case in Belgium. Spartacus's John D Stamford.
1990 – Switzerland launders whiter.
Book Worldcat database. J Ziegler. West Germany. Money laundering
from drug cartels.
March 1993 – Ayman al Zawahiri’s
speaking circuit in California at US mosques. He allegedly came from
Bern Switzerland. Al Zawahiri’s uncle was a diplomat in
Switzerland. Ayman al Zawahiri aka Dr Abdul Muiz. (The looming tower.
Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
Oct 1994 – Police found the burned
bodies of 84 crazy cult members, from the Solar temple. An
international sect involved in ritual suicides. (Bad times in
history. Roland C Barker ©2001 US).
5 Dec 1994 – 48 members of the order
of the Solar Temple were found burned to death in Salvan and Chiery
Switzerland. Links to France and Canada. (Diana, death of a goddess.
David Cohen (c)2004 UK).
13 Nov 1995 – Egyptian diplomat Alaa
al Din Nazmi had links to al Taqwa bank. And the Muslim Brotherhood.
(History commons).
16 Oct 1996 – Banking with the Nazis.
Documents detail Swiss banks ties with the Third Reich. AP. (Nicholas
Shaxson. Treasures islands (c)2011 UK).
20 Sept 1997 – Guy Berenger was chief
physicist at the nuclear research facility CERN, He worked for the
Solar Temple and also worked for the Rothschild's and WHO, the World
Health Organisation. He was at Geneva airport on 20 Sept 1997.
(Diana, death of a goddess. David Cohen (c)2004 UK).
29 Nov 1998 – Prosecutors move
against the Russian mafia in Switzerland. By Naomi Koppel. AP.
Geneva..The trial of a Russia businessman, Sergei Milhailov. Major
Swiss. Herald journal.
1 Dec 1998 – Swiss put Russian mafia
boss on trial. Peter Capella. The Guardian UK.
2000 – Sebastien Guex. The origins of
the Swiss banking secrecy law and its repercusions for Swiss federal
policy. Business history review 74 summer 2000. (Nicholas Shaxson.
Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
7 November 2001 – Raid on a villa in
Campione. Youssef Nada, director of the al-Taqwa bank of Lugano, who
had an active association with the Muslim Brotherhood for more than
50 years. He admitted to being one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s
international leaders. The raid was conducted by Swiss law
enforcement at the request of the US White House. A crackdown on
terrorist finances in the aftermath of 9/11. US Swiss investigators
were looking into al-Taqwa's involvement in money laundering and
funding Islamic terrorist groups, like al-Qaeda, Hamas, Algerian GIA
and the Tunisian Ennehdah. (Frontpage mag. The Muslim Brotherhood
project. Patrick Poole 11 May 2006).
2002 – Roger P Alford. The claim
resolution tribunal and holocaust claims against Swiss banks.
Berkeley journal of int law vol 20 no 1. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure
islands (c)2011 UK).
3 June 2006 – The Swiss sex slavery.
While willing sex, called prostitution, is legal in Switzerland and
is worth $2.65 billion annually. Unwilling forced rape, sex slavery
and comfort women.
9 October 2006 – In Geneva the UN
declares an end to a security alert. There was a possible threat to
the European HQ of the UN and its agencies.
2007 – In mid 2006 Edward Snowden got
a job in info tech at the CIA. He had access to classified top secret
documents. In 2007 the CIA sent him to Geneva Switzerland, he was 24
years old. He worked as Security for the CIA’s computer network,
and US diplomats in Geneva. (The Snowden files. Luke Hardy ©2014
UK).
2007-2009 – Switzerland's dirty
money. $7.1 trillion in offshore accounts held by non residents, half
of them were from Europe in 2009. This had been $3.1 trillion in
2007. Swiss banks. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
26 January 2007 – Dual strategy for
countering, rape and sex slavery. It was held at the UEFA Euro in
2008. Federal office of police. Berne Fedpol.
7 December 2007 – Disappearances of
newborn babies for illegal adoption in Europe. Social health and
family affairs committee Ms Ruth Gaby Vermont Mangold. Trafficking in
children. child sex slavery and child pornography. The disappearance
of newborn babies. Some of these children were later found begging in
the streets in Eastern and Western Europe.
2008 – The state owned Chinese oil
company Sinopec spent $7.2 billion to buy the Swiss oil field
exploration company Addax petroleum, which has reserves in Nigeria,
Gabon and Iraq. (The shadow market. Eric J Weiner ©2010).
2008 – Mysterious deaths. A Swiss
banker, Frederick Bise was found dead in 2008 in the boot of a
burning car in Grand bay Cayman islands. Blunt injuries to his head.
(Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
20 May 2008 – Europe, US battle Swiss
bank secrecy. Der Spiegel. (Nicholas Shaxson. Treasure islands
(c)2011 UK).
Dec 2008 – HSBC IT, Herve Falciani
was arrested by the Swiss in Geneva. He had files from the bank. He
fled on bail to France, with data on 30,000 people, from 2005-2007.
2009 – KGB money laundering in Geneva
and the Credit Suisse bank. It was used to fund links to organised
crime families in the Middle East, terrorist groups. Money also went
through Bulgarian intel, used to kill Soviet dissidents in the west.
(Secret wars ©2009 G Thomas US).
17 June 2009 – Switzerland Wikileaks,
Lord Aikins Adusai, Ghana Money laundering from Africa.
28 June 2009 – Swiss police bust an
international paedophile ring. Xinhua news agency.
5 March 2010 – Ken Stier. After UBS,
Swiss continue to fight for bank secrecy. Time mag .(Nicholas
Shaxson. Treasure islands (c)2011 UK).
26 July 2010 – Swiss tackle Italian
mafia on home soil. Flare network The Ndrangheti moved arms and drug
trafficking in Switzerland and were laundering money.
6 Dec 2010 – AnonOps DDos attack on
postFinance.ch a Swiss e-payment company, which also blocked funding
services to Wikileaks. 500 people joined in the attack using LOIC.
(We are Anonymous. Parmy Olson ©2012 US).
19 December 2010 – Crime boss talks
about the Mafia in Switzerland. Swissinfo drugs.
26 December 2010 – Italian mafia
spreads in Switzerland. Switzerland is also being used for drug
trafficking on a large scale, a hideout for mafia members hunted by
police. AFP.
2011 – St Moritz Switzerland
Bilderberg meeting. Infowars Alex Jones 26 Aug 2014. Steve Watson.
The Austrian location of the 2015 Bilderberg meeting venue is owned
by Swiss giant Liebher group.
18 May 2012 – Growing threat, fight
against the mafia. Swissinfo. Mafia crime in Switzerland.
19 November 2012 – Brazil's sex
traffickers target Switzerland. Human trafficking, a code of silence
in Switzerland.
26 November 2012 – Former SNC LAVALIN
executive was charged in Switzerland. Report. Toronto Reuters Yahoo
news. Money laundering in Switzerland. CBC news Canada. Riadh Ben
Aissa was charged with fraud, corruption and money laundering in
Switzerland.
December 2012 – The Swiss
coordination unit against the trafficking of persons and smuggling of
migrants. KSMM Police department Switzerland.
5 December 2012 – Intelnews.org by
Joseph Fitsanakis. A Swiss intel employee stole millions of
classified pages. Reuters.
16 December 2012 – Public intel.
Money laundering banks fuel Mexican drug cartels.
16 July 2013 – Swiss bank leaker.
Money is easy to hide. Tax evaders, HSBC Swiss bank whistleblower
Herve Falciani. Money laundering and drug cartels. Spiegel online.
Nov 2013 – 3,000 Swiss at HSBC on a
list, published by Mr Falicani. 70% of those on the list were diamond
dealers.
26 Aug 2014 – Mafia arrests. Swiss
info. 16 members of Mafia were arrested in Thurgau.
27 Aug 2014 – Secret meeting
Calabrian. The Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug mafia. Swiss town of
Fauenfeld north of Zurich. The Independent UK.
28 Aug 2014 – Extortion, cocaine and
heroin. Mafia. A gathering of the Calabrian Ndrangheta gun and drug
mafia, was held in the Swiss town of Frauenfeld, north of Zurich. The
Independent UK.
10 Sept 2014 – Peru has closer trade
with Switzerland. Freshplaza. Peru could become Switzerland’s new
food provider. Demand for Peru’s products.
12 Sept 2014 – A Chinese jewellery
thief was arrested in Switzerland. Jianguo Meng aged 46. At least 14
robberies in many countries. Interpol.
22 Sept 2014 – Missing person when 8
years old. Sufian Malik Rizanaj. Hungary Swiss. Interpol.
13 Oct 2014 – The 4th
media. US Army whistleblower. CIA funds ISIS and al Qaeda. Union bank
of Swizerland. Booz Allen Hamilton.
Nov 2014 – France, Belgium and
Argentina charge HSBC with avoiding tax through the Swiss branch.
4 Jan 2015 – Suspected of belonging
to the Mafia, now you wont be prosecuted for membership of an
organisation or syndicate. Michael Lauber said. Swissinfo.ch.
10 Jan 2015 – Money for Swiss bank
BCGE. Zurich Geneva. Cyber attack, social media data on the Swiss
bank. Reuters.
18 Jan 2015 – Fallout from Swiss
global. Banks with tens of millions of dollars in losses. Collapse of
some firms. The Wall Street Journal. Toronto Star Canada.
22 Jan 2015 – The world economic
forum DAVOS, to discuss oil prices. Held at the Swiss resort of
Davos. A networking event, 2,500 heads of state and business leaders.
ABC news. Swissinfo.ch.
22 Jan 2015 – New Iran US talks this
week in Switzerland. A nuclear deal with Iran and the US. Daily mail.
24 Jan 2015 – Google boss Eric
Schmidt spoke at the Davos world economic forum in Switzerland. He
said 60% of the internet is in English. Fairfax media.
9 Feb 2015 – HSBC helped conceal
$100 billion in Swiss accounts. Swiss banks. Anonymous. Twitter. CNN.
18 Feb 2015 – Lizzie Dearden. The
HSBC scandal. The Swiss offices were searched. Money laundering at
the Geneva branch. Swiss HSBC, money laundering and tax avoidance
schemes. HSBC holdings PLC in Geneva. The Independent UK.
18 Feb 2015 – Swiss prosecutor raids
HSBC offices. Marina Doparis. Money laundering and tax avoidance.
Reuters.
19 Feb 2015 – Tax scandal hits Coutts
and BSI desk. Tax practices of the Swiss private banking industry.
Coutts tax scandal.
23 Feb 2015 – HSBC chief defends
Swiss bank account worth $7.7 million. Protected from Hong Kong. New
York Times.
25 Feb 2015 – HSBC scandal. Douglas
Flint in Switzerland, tax avoidance. The whistleblower's leak of info
is being called data theft. The Guardian UK.
4 March 2015 – HSBC bosses in Swiss
scandal. The bank of England. HSBC in Switzerland. The Guardian UK.
7 March 2015 – Edward Snowden asks
Switzerland for asylum. Daily caller. Yahoo news. Neutrality.
24 May 2015 – The CIA is allegedly
funding ISIS through Swiss bank accounts. Twitter. Mistershaks. The
DC clothesline.
5 June 2015 – Swiss prosecutors close
the British bank HSBC case. The bank is to pay 40 million Swiss
francs. DNA Geneva. Swiss leaks, tax dodgers and money laundering.
12 June 2015 – Swiss financial
affairs official Pierre Maudet from the Geneva at dept of security
and the economy, attended the Bilderberg meeting in Austria. (The
Guardian UK Charlie Skelten).
28 July 2015 – How NSA and GCHQ spied
on the cold war world. American and British intel and a Swiss
encryption company. German enigma. Gordon Corera. BBC UK.
1 Aug 2015 – Swiss franc shock hits
the central bank for $50 billion. Matt Clinch. Gold holdings. CNBC.
5 Sept 2015 – Welsh tourists were
involved in a serious crash in Switzerland. Tourists from Wales on a
coach trip to Italy. 40 people. Mirror UK.
19 Oct 2015 – The anti-immigration
SVD party and the Swiss Peoples party won votes in Switzerland.
Joshua Frankilin. Zurich. Ca.news. Yahoo.com. Reuters.
