The second Swiss banking group is accused of having hosted funds of criminal origin. Credit Suisse has firmly rejected these accusations which tarnish its reputation, after an annus horribilis in 2021 which resulted in a loss of 1.6 billion Swiss francs.

Credit Suisse, the second Swiss banking group, continues to manage scandals. IT has just been called into question by an investigation carried out by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which brings together 47 media, including Le Monde. He is accused of having hosted, for decades, illicit or criminal funds, on the basis of a data leak relating to 18,000 bank accounts. The bank is said to have played a key role in money laundering linked to crime and corruption for decades.

These conclusions are based on a massive leak of data, which was submitted, anonymously, to the German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung.

It is therefore a total of some 100 billion Swiss francs of criminal or illicit origin that would have passed through the accounts of Credit Suisse. In a statement released on Sunday, the banking group "strongly denied allegations regarding the bank's alleged business practices".