BERLIN. A data leak from Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s second-largest bank, reveals account details of more than 30,000 customers — some of them unsavory — including inadequate background checks on many customers, a German newspaper and other media reported. local.
In a statement, Credit Suisse “strongly rejected allegations and innuendos about the bank’s alleged business practices.”
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The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung received the data anonymously through a digital mailbox more than a year ago. He said it’s unclear whether the source was an individual or a group, and the newspaper made no payments or promises.
The newspaper said it evaluated the data, which spanned the 1940s well into the past decade, together with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and dozens of media partners, including The New York Times and The Guardian.
He said the data suggests the bank has accepted “corrupt autocrats, suspected war criminals and human traffickers, drug traffickers and other criminals” as clients.
Credit Suisse said it has reviewed a large number of accounts potentially associated with the allegations, with 90% of them “either closed today or in the process of being closed prior to receiving press inquiries.”
