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February 22, 2022

Leak Reveals Credit Suisse Ties to Dictators, Torturers and Organized Crime
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A German whistleblower has leaked data on 18,000 accounts showing that
Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse held hundreds of millions of dollars
for dictators, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, arms traders and
others accused of serious crimes. Among those named in the massive data
leak is Sa'ad Khair, a former head of the Jordanian intelligence service
and a key U.S. ally who participated in the CIA's extraordinary
rendition program. Also exposed were former Egyptian spy chief Omar
Suleiman, who's been linked to the widespread torture of political
dissidents, as well as Alaa and Gamal Mubarak, sons of former Egyptian
dictator Hosni Mubarak.


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