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...later transferred more than $600 million into an escrow account in Manila. The case marked the start of Swiss cooperation in international criminal cases and the advent of tough laws against money laundering. Any suspicions of money laundering must now be reported to a central monitoring agency in Bern. Strict rules hold senior bank managers accountable for the accounts of politicians, whatever country they come from...
Borer's groundbreaking approach to statecraft was not an unqualified success - he was recalled to Bern when a Swiss paper published details of an alleged affair with a topless model. Though he denied the story from the beginning and has since received a sizable out-of-court settlement from the tabloid, which admitted fabricating the story, he quit government and remains bitter over his treatment. "I will never go back under this minister," he says when asked if he would ever return to the diplomatic corps. "But fortunately ministers change...
...BERN, N.C. Abdul Hakim Murad, who authorities said trained at flight schools here and in three other states, confessed in 1996 that he was part of an elaborate plot that included bombing U.S. jetliners in midair and flying a small craft loaded with explosives into CIA headquarters...
...reveals with forensic precision how the Vatican and the Catholic Church hierarchy in Argentina colluded to protect thousands of Croatian fascists wanted for acts of genocide. He also details how Swiss officials cooperated with a secret office set up in Bern by Perón's agents to smuggle Nazis out of Germany. Perón's support for Hitler, his contacts with Himmler and his hostility to the Nuremberg trials are documented, as is the shameful behavior of Argentine diplomats who connived in the operation while making ransom demands on Jewish families seeking visas. The logistical role played...
...clubs of Ybor or the fine dining of Bern's that is putting the fear of God into some of the coaches. Rather, it is Tampa's traditional signature source of entertainment: strip clubs...