A massive leak from one of the world's biggest private banks, Credit Suisse, exposed the hidden wealth of several clients involved in torture, drug trafficking, money laundering, and corruption.
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The leak involved accounts linked to 30,000 Credit Suisse clients all over the globe and exposed the beneficiaries of more than $100 billion held in one of Switzerland's best-known financial institutions.
A consortium of media outlets, including The Guardian, was given exclusive access to the data.
Included in the so-called "Suisse Secrets" exposé is a human trafficker in the Philippines, a Hong Kong stock exchange boss jailed for bribery, a billionaire who ordered the killing of his Lebanese girlfriend, executives who looted Venezuela's state oil company, and corrupt politicians from Egypt to Ukraine.
The accumulation of data was leaked by an anonymous whistleblower to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which quoted the source: "The pretext of protecting financial privacy is merely a fig leaf covering the shameful role of Swiss banks as collaborators of tax evaders."
