“Based on an anonymous tip in February to run in the Zurich public Prosecutor’s office preliminary investigation, whether a start condition exists suspicion for criminal misconduct,” confirmed a spokesman for the justice on Friday, a report by the industry portal “Inside Paradeplatz”.

Still no criminal case against Collardi, and other active or former employees is, therefore, to have been the end of Julius Baer opens. The presumption of innocence applies.

Under Boris Collardi, today a Partner at the Geneva private Bank Pictet, had expanded Julius Baer quickly, and was apparently in the maelstrom with dubious customers. Some four months ago, the private Bank had been overtaken by her past. The Swiss financial market Supervisory authority (Finma) found in the case of Bank of the severe deficiencies in the money laundering.

Julius Baer is a failure, from 2009 until the beginning of 2018 for the testing of dangerous customers, “fully”, complained the Finma. The complained of misconduct, and were thus in the time of the previous CEO Collardi. And the Finma stated at the time also, you will check “in a second step, whether or not proceedings against individual opened people” would.

The list of Finma read like a “who’s who” of the alleged bribe-receiver, the received at the Bank “asylum”: officials of the football Association, Fifa, as well as Venezuelan officials and elites, to have exempted the state oil company PDVSA.

it was Like only a few days ago, known, Julius Baer is also because of another money laundering Case in the visor of the Finma. The authority is conducting an Enforcement procedure in the case of an Argentinean entrepreneur against the Zurich-based Bank.

(SDA)