A Swiss court ordered Credit Suisse to pay the equivalent of US$22 million for failing to prevent a Bulgarian crime ring from laundering money related to cocaine trafficking.

Swiss bankers defended on Tuesday the decision of a parliamentary commission not to strike down the controversial article 47 from the country’s banking secrecy law that has been criticized by the UN, journalists and human rights advocates as violating press freedom.

A Swiss parliament committee will discuss on Thursday a provision of the country’s controversial banking secrecy law that has effectively muzzled journalists and whistleblowers from revealing that war criminals, drug traffickers, their money launderers and other criminals keep their ill-gotten funds in Swiss banks.

The sister of Uzbek-born oligarch and one of the richest Russians, Alisher Usmanov, was added Friday to the European Union’s list of people and entities sanctioned over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The Suisse Secrets leak lays bare the extent of the relationship between Credit Suisse and the politically-connected Venezuelan financial sector.

The wife of Uzbekistan’s first deputy prime minister has never appeared in public. But now, two separate document leaks — one from the tropical British Virgin Islands, the other from Switzerland — reveal her to be a secret player in one of the country’s top business relationships.

In response to reports that Credit Suisse had asked investors to destroy documents pertaining to yacht and private jet loans to its wealthy oligarch clientele, the bank released a statement Thursday arguing that its actions were in accordance with its non-disclosure agreement.

Credit Suisse has asked its investors and business partners to destroy documents about the yachts and private jets of its wealthiest clients in an attempt to cover up the fact that the bank had granted loans to oligarchs that were later sanctioned, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

Seven activist groups requested that Switzerland’s financial watchdog, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), launch an investigation into the relationship between three Swiss banks and Lebanon’s central bank governor, according to The National.

In response to revelations that he at some point kept millions in a bank account in Switzerland, a Tajikistan politician and alleged mafia kingpin claimed that he was not fully conscious when his account was originally opened by an unidentified businessman.

A Swiss court dismissed on Thursday a lawsuit brought by the sister of a Ukrainian oligarch against the country’s immigration authorities who refused to naturalise her over doubts about the origin of her wealth.

Just a few days after reporters revealed that three Macedonians, among them a former deputy prime minister, may have had millions stashed in Switzerland, prosecutors in Skopje said they will look into the revelations about the accounts at Credit Suisse.

A network of Gaddafi-era officials have been accused of embezzling millions of dollars of Libyan state development money and channeling it abroad. Many simultaneously held Credit Suisse accounts with tens of millions of dollars’ worth of deposits.

Hussein Salem became a symbol of cronyism and corruption during President Hosni Mubarak’s three decades in power. Leaked bank data shows that he held accounts at Credit Suisse for years, even after public accusations of bribery and fraud.

A majority of Members of the European Parliament supported on Tuesday the initiative to blacklist Switzerland as a high-risk country for money laundering following the release of an international investigation that revealed Credit Suisse’s shady business practices.

Swiss, French and Taiwanese authorities investigating a corrupt $2.5 billion deal were not aware Credit Suisse had opened an account for the secretary general of Taiwan’s ruling party at the time kickbacks from the deal were being distributed. The middleman in the deal had Credit Suisse accounts at the same time as Soong, and later had almost $500 million frozen by Swiss authorities.

After the Suisse Secrets investigation revealed how Switzerland’s second-largest lender served some shady clients, officials in the West called on Monday for the country to be put on a money-laundering blacklist, while Swiss politicians pledged to review their banking laws and stop criminalising investigative journalism.

When Italian entrepreneur Antonio Velardo and former IRA bomber Henry "Harry" Fitzsimons teamed up to sell apartments in a large development in Calabria, investors lost millions. Newly leaked bank data shows Velardo had hidden away a small fortune at Credit Suisse, beyond the reach of hapless creditors.

The Arab Spring drew enormous scrutiny to the wealth Arab elites had stashed abroad. A leak of bank data reveals how figures linked to regimes in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Jordan, and elsewhere held hundreds of millions at Credit Suisse before and after the uprising.

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland called on Sunday evening for the abolition of a law that prevents journalists from reporting on Swiss bank clients. The appeal came after a group of international reporters published an investigation that showed Credit Suisse had some very dubious customers.