Credit Suisse and four people are accused of aggravated laundering of funds from cocaine trafficking. Their trial at the Federal Criminal Court opened on Monday February 7, 2022 in Bellinzona.

Credit Suisse responded to Bellinzona, as well as a former employee and three other people accused of aggravated money laundering, for a trial that should last four weeks. The first day of the trial was the occasion of a battle around the prescription or not of certain facts after an investigation which lasted nearly fifteen years.

In question, several tens of millions of francs, deposited between 2004 and 2007 by relatives or members of a Bulgarian criminal organization without the bank having taken "all reasonable and necessary organizational measures aimed at preventing money laundering “, says the Public Ministry of the Confederation (MPC). Deposited in Switzerland, the money was then reinvested in real estate in Bulgaria. The organization imported the cocaine from South America and distributed it in Europe. Its leader, Evelin Banev, nicknamed the "king of coke", sentenced in several countries, was arrested in Ukraine last September.