The Suisseleaks report on Sunday (20/2), revealed a scandal related to Raja’s trillions of rupiah-equivalent deposits JordanAbdullah II, to the drug cartel in the banking company Credit Suisse.
Asked for comment on Suisseleaks’ findings, Credit Suisse said risk management is “at the core of our business.”
The bank also said the problematic accounts identified by journalists had been closed or were in the process of being closed before this press report was revealed.
One of the revealed accounts belonged to the Italian drug cartel or mafia, ‘Ndrangheta’, although there were no details on the amount of their funds in the report.
Here are some of the figures involved in the Credit Suisse case:
Rodoljub Radulovic
One of the alleged drug cartel figures revealed in this report is Rodoljub Radulovic. Radulovic, also known as ‘Misha Banana’ is the alleged leader of a Serbian drug cartel. He has two accounts at Credit Suisse, with one account having a net worth of nearly 3.4 million Swiss francs (Rp 52 billion).
Credit Suisse still opens accounts for Radulovic even though he was briefly involved in financial fraud in the United States.
One account belonging to Radulovic is accused of being used to launder millions of cocaine sales, according to OCCRP. Another account is held by Radulovic through a company he created in the Marshall Islands to claim assets belonging to another company that he used as a fraudulent vehicle.
Radulovic, who has been a fugitive for years, is now on trial for smuggling 1.8 tonnes of cocaine from Argentina to Europe.
King of Jordan
Jordan’s king, Abdullah II, is said to have an account at Credit Suisse with a value of 230 million Swiss francs (Rp 3.5 trillion).
Various World Spies
The Suisse Secrets report shows 15 intelligence figures from around the world, as well as members of their families, have accounts with Credit Suisse.
Some of the intelligence operatives with accounts at the bank included spy chiefs and their relatives from Jordan, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt and Pakistan. Some of them were also accused of financial crimes, torture, or both.
One of the figures revealed is Sa’ad Khair. He is the head of Jordan’s General Intelligence Directorate (GID), which acts as an ally of the United States in the War on Terrorism.
However, Khair’s morals need to be questioned considering that he was accused of smuggling oil, running a body suspected of torturing detainees, and also overseeing informal trials.
In 2003, Khair opened a personal account at Credit Suisse. Over the next seven years, the account’s fortune reached 28.3 million Swiss francs (Rp440 billion) at its peak, before the account was closed months after he died in 2009.
Apart from Khair, Omar Suleiman from Egypt, General Pakistan Akhtar Abdur Rahman, and Ghaleb Al-Qamish from Yemen are also known to have accounts at Credit Suisse.
All four run the country’s intelligence services, where they control large amounts of illicit budgets without parliamentary and executive oversight. All of these figures or their families have large personal accounts at Credit Suisse, and have no clear source of personal money.
The four also had roles in US intervention in the Middle East and Afghanistan. In addition, three people from this group also played a role in the agency suspected of being involved in the torture.
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