Deep inside a Swiss bank’s vault a whistleblower found more than just account numbers
Investigative journalist Margot Patrick of the Wall Street Journal reveals how Switzerland’s Credit Suisse bank in Zurich hid thousands of files marked with the ominous “American blacklist” stamp.
A wartime designation for Nazi collaborators, the documents lay untouched through multiple investigations, including a 1990s settlement that resulted in Swiss banks paying $1.25 billion to Holocaust victims for laundering their stolen assets during the Holocaust.
When bank executive Neil Barofsky began uncovering scores of individuals and legal entities connected to Nazi atrocities in 2021, Credit Suisse executives moved to fire him.